"A conversation on the deepening political crisis in #France and its implications for the left and the alternative."
#WaldenBello talks w/ #LaFranceInsoumise
https://www.meer.com/en/99154-interview-with-la-france-insoumise-where-will-france-go
#polFr #politiqueFrançaise #LFI #JeanLucMélenchon #JLM #FrenchLeft #gaucheFrançaise #FrenchPolitics #FranceUnbowed #Mélenchon #gaucheDeRupture @MusiqueNow
"In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid. Similar concerns have surfaced in Brazil, Britain, India, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Singapore and Spain."
🕸glané sur le net🕸 Un internationaliste se retourne sur son parcours - Une recension de l'ouvrage « Global Battlefields » de Walden Bello: Alex de Jong rend compte du nouveau livre de souvenirs de Walden Bello, militant et… #Internationalisme #WaldenBello #GlobalBattlefields #Livre #Politique
Un internationaliste se retour...
🕸glané sur le net🕸 Walden Bello : Un rebelle global venu des Philippines: Walden Bello est une figure clé de la gauche mondiale altermondiste. Infatigable militant, universitaire et ancien législateur, Bello a combattu les dictatures,… #WaldenBello #Altermondialisme #Gauche #Militant #Globalisation
Walden Bello : Un rebelle glob...
[Closer Look] ‘Global Battlefields’: Walden Bello’s ‘memory of movement’
> Satoko is convinced that many in the bureaucracy are open to the challenge she has posed: “The old approach is no longer working. What is your solution? Shouldn’t we at least give alternative approaches a try?”
> Suginami is like the rest of Tokyo and Japan.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/02/a-mini-revolution-in-tokyo/
#BelloInJapan #SatokoKishimoto #TokyoJapan #SuginamiTokyo #BureaucracyJapan #WaldenBello #JapanPol
> As many as 30,000 Filipinos, according to..(HR~groups, were victims of his presidency’s most publicized and cruelest policy—a war he waged on his own citizens. Last week, he was again the center of international attention, with his dramatic arrest on the tarmac of Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport. It is a move that has divided the country: embraced as a long-overdue action or condemned as an illegal encroachment. It reflects the 16th president’s continuing ability to set Filipinos against one another.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/rodrigo-duterte-hague/
#WaldenBello
> One may, of course, have questions about the intentions of the Marcos administration and I certainly am aware that the arrest took place amidst an intensifying power struggle between two dynasties for which I have utmost contempt for.
https://www.facebook.com/share/15xksK6k1J/
#WaldenBello #DuterteICC
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"Papatayin kita" "Lason Mong Halik" "Barang"? "Bu-an"!?!?!?!???
> Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country is not an easy read.
#WaldenBello #PatriciaEvagelista #RodrigoDuterte
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/12/memoir-of-a-murder-in-the-philippines/
Walden Bello!! The goto guy for "globalization"! AND key phrases in Bisaya "papatayin kita" (from a book review about a President's speeches and...)
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> The IMF’s economists are paid even higher than those at the World Bank, and they evoke more fear, hatred, and contempt than the Bank.
> The IMF has an equally controversial history. It has a record of coming in to supposedly assist developing economies in crisis, only to make things worse.
@bsmall2@writing.exchange
#IMFWorldBank #WaldenBello
> Despite the high rate of failure of its lending programs acknowledged in internal World Bank assessments, the World Bank administrative budget that supports the high salaries of its economists and other high-level staff just keeps growing. The World Bank (IBRD/IDA) administrative budget was approved at $3.5 billion for FY25, a sizable rise from the $3.1 billion authorized for FY 2024, with no convincing reason at all.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/26/the-imf-and-world-bank-await-elon-musk/
#WaldenBello #WorldBank #WorldBankIMF
> I was not prepared for how well-written it was. And as a sociologist, I really appreciated how Vance articulates the contradictions of the white working class in the Rust Belt Midwest and Appalachian region as he personally experienced them. This is an “us” versus “them” narrative by someone who finally got to become one of “them.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/21/required-reading-hillbilly-elegy/
#WaldenBello on #JdVance #HillbillyElegy #uspol #MAGA
> By early October, it was clear to me that Trump would win not so much because he had a more attractive vision for the future, but because he was able to capitalize on people’s fears about the economy, the border, and war and turn that unease into an active negative force against the Democrats. The 2024 election was largely a vote against #DemocraticIneptitude, just as the 2020 election was a vote against the chaos of Trump’s first presidency.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/12/how-did-i-predict-that-trump-despite-his-repulsive-personality-and-politics-would-prevail/
#uspol #WaldenBello
> .. they will exploit every legal loophole.. landlords will, as a last resort, have recourse to violence. The recent assassinations of several peasant leaders serve as a jarring reminder of this reality of the class struggle in the countryside.
> These circumstances demand a determined, resolute, and courageous secretary of #AgrarianReform.. not a timid technocrat but a bold political leader.. not.. afraid to do battle with the landlords.
https://www.rappler.com/philippines/73889-aquino-bello-complaints/
.> Being a progressive has several dimensions. It means having a vision about how society should be organized based on the values of equality, justice, solidarity, and sovereignty. It means having a political program to realize this vision. But it also means projecting an ethical, moral stance. And perhaps, at a time that people have become so cynical about visions and programs because words are cheap and because opportunism and corruption are so rife across the political spectrum, the distinguishing mark of a true progressive holding public office is her or his ethical behavior. For me, being a progressive in the corridors of power means, above all, being steadfast in holding on to one’s principles and values, even if this means losing one’s position, possessions, or life.
Spoiled offspring of the ruling class like the Aquinos and Abads will come and go, but Akbayan is a precious child forged in the historic struggles of the Philippine Left and heir to its finest traditions. Will it find the courage to follow the harsh dictates of its progressive conscience?
> Philippine police.. arrested Walden Bello, a 76-year-old social activist, academic, and former congressman, at his home in Quezon City on charges of cyber-libel..
> The.. cyber-libel law, passed in 2012, has been used.. against journalist.. critics of the government, and.. social media users.. 3,700 cyber-libel cases were filed as of May 2022.. 1,317 were filed in court while 1,131 were dismissed. Twelve cases ended in a conviction.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/09/philippine-activist-arrested-cyber-libel
#Cyberlibel #WaldenBello
> Instead of Duterte participating in... televised debates—as all the other candidates for vice president did—her camp not only filed the #cyberlibel charge against me; it also had the city council of Davao declare me “persona non grata” and labeled me a “narco-politician,” a charge that has negative implications for my physical security in a country where thousands have been extrajudicially executed for being allegedly drug users and peddlers
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/why-walden-bellos-arrest-and-detention-for-cyberlibel-demands-attention/
#SaraDuterte #WaldenBello
> Bello – who has committed his life to the fight for democracy, liberty, and the rights of all to a dignified life – was arrested at his home on Aug 8, 2022 and sent to Quezon City Police Station on charges of “cyber libel” related to a Facebook post published during the March national elections that he contested as a candidate for the vice presidency.
https://progressive.international/wire/2022-08-09-we-stand-with-walden-bello-/en/
> "Walden is truly a global leader in worldwide movements for economic and social justice, and to break the iron rule that the most powerful people in high-income countries wield over the institutions of global governance, which they do to the detriment of the majority of the world,” CEPR Co-Director #MarkWeisbrot said. “And he’s long been a leading voice for justice, accountability, and democracy in the #Philippines, which is why he’s being targeted.”
https://cepr.net/press-release/cepr-condemns-politically-motivated-arrest-of-former-board-member-walden-bello-in-the-philippines/
#WaldenBello
