When the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001, it was meant as a counterpoint to the…
Walden Bello
Donald Trump’s electoral defeat in 2020 and Jair Bolsonaro’s loss to Lula in Brazil in 2022, along with Rodrigo Duterte’s leaving the…
On the occasion of his death at 100, praises and denunciations of Henry Kissinger are being sung and spewed out in record…
When I heard that Salvador Allende won the Chilean presidential elections in September 1970 and sought to bring his country to socialism…
Oppenheimer is a film about the brilliant, enigmatic physicist who led the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb. The relationship of…
‘Barbie stages in Barbieland the equivalent of the Protestant Reformation’ I finally got what director Greta Gerwig was up to in her…
Satoko Kishimoto returned to her native Japan in April 2022. She was 47, and for 22 of those years she had been in…
When I was doing interviews for my dissertation in Santiago, Chile, in 1972, I was told that the word “Jakarta” had been…
Amnesty International Philippines named FPIF commentator Walden Bello “Most Distinguished Defender of Human Rights” for 2023. This is his acceptance speech. I…
As governments converge on Washington for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Spring Meeting (April 10-16), they are confronted with the daunting…