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A Letter to Brazil, From a Friend Living Under Duterte

Walden Bello — 2018-11-08T08:35:20Z

The letter below was written just before the recent presidential elections in Brazil. We are republishing it here because we think much of what Walden Bello draws out of the comparisons between what Duerte has done in the Philippines and what Jair Bolsonaro presages in Brazil is timely and apposite. (IV)

- IV526 - November 2018 / Brazil, Far Right

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Is a Wildly Popular Fascist – Now what?

Walden Bello — 2017-12-10T12:49:20Z

In 2016, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte placed his country prominently on the global radar screenâ€”too prominently, in the opinion of some Filipinos.

- Fascism / Philippines, Far Right, Debate section

The Pivotal Agent in the Fight against Global Warming

Walden Bello — 2007-11-05T19:54:11Z

"The environmental costs of rapid industrialization are of major concern to significant sectors of the population of developing countries and, in many of them, the environmental movement has been a significant actor. Moreover, there is currently an active discussion in many countries of alternatives to the destabilizing high-growth model".

- IV394 - November 2007 / Ecology and the Environment, Global Justice