Walden Bello

The Bush administration's imperial and corporate misadventures over the last decade have proven that the world would be much better off without the US interference.

There's something surreal about the ongoing World Trade Organization talks in Geneva, which aim at coming up with a new agreement to bring down tariffs in order to expand world trade and resuscitate global growth.

Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis.

Skyrocketing oil prices, a falling dollar, and collapsing financial markets are the key ingredients in an economic brew that could end up in more than just an ordinary recession.

Last month's conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia, brought the North-South fault line in climate politics into sharp relief. While U.S.

The gap between the urgent threat of global warming and the collective will to do something about it has never been greater. The recently concluded Conference on Climate Change in Bali was a grand opportunity to act. Instead, it was another missed opportunity.

A new stage in the evolution of the global justice movement was reached with the inauguration of the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2001.The WSF was the brainchild of social movements loosely associated with the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil.

The military coup in Thailand is the second high-profile collapse of a democracy in the developing world in the last seven years. The first was the coup in Pakistan in October 1999 that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power.

The bittersweet mood in Beirut on this day when the ceasefire took effect was perhaps best expressed by Rahul, a taxi driver, who tells me, "We won, but at what cost? So many people displaced, so many dead, so many buildings destroyed."

Irak Dünya Mahkemesi, küresel sivil toplumun, gerçeğin ve adaletin kaynağı olarak, evrensel düzeyde itibarını kaybetmiş olan hükümetlerin ve şirket medyasının yerini aldığının ve bu rolü ne kadar başarılı yürüttüğünün çarpıcı bir göstergesiydi.

Iraq, as Bob Woodward puts it in his book Plan of Attack, has "sucked all the oxygen out of the system."

What happened? In a word, Empire. It turns out that globalization and U.S. unilteralism don't mix. But first, some notes on globalization and the globalist project.

and the new economics of George W Bush

The assault on the World Trade Center was horrific, despicable, and unpardonable, but it is important not to lose perspective, especially a historical one.