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1 month ago | 
fpif.org | Walden Bello |John Feffer
I think that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been misinformed. I don’t disagree with their shutting down USAID, but I think it’s rather small fry. There are much, much bigger fish to fry if you want to really save U.S. government money that is being wasted in programs that are mischievously justified as aid to the poor people of the world.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
eurasiareview.com | Walden Bello
I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a country located on the outer fringes of the empire, I certainly was unaware of the book even when it began to rise on the bestsellers’ lists at the beginning of the first Trump administration.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
fpif.org | Walden Bello |John Feffer
I doubt that many progressives in the United States have read J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Being based in the Philippines, a country located on the outer fringes of the empire, I certainly was unaware of the book even when it began to rise on the bestsellers’ lists at the beginning of the first Trump administration.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | Walden Bello
In June 2024, Mexicans elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum to replace Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Arguably, Mexico is Washington’s most significant foreign policy partner, playing a central role in two issues that Donald Trump manipulated to win the 2024 presidential election: migration and drugs. Laura Carlsen, one of Mexico’s most distinguished progressive journalists and political analysts, takes stock of President Sheinbaum’s performance so far and how she plans to deal with Trump.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
smirkingchimp.com | Walden Bello
— from Foreign Policy In Focus In June 2024, Mexicans elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum to replace Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Arguably, Mexico is Washington’s most significant foreign policy partner, playing a central role in two issues that Donald Trump manipulated to win the 2024 presidential election: migration and drugs.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
fpif.org | Walden Bello
In June 2024, Mexicans elected a female president, Claudia Sheinbaum to replace Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Arguably, Mexico is Washington’s most significant foreign policy partner, playing a central role in two issues that Donald Trump manipulated to win the 2024 presidential election: migration and drugs. Laura Carlsen, one of Mexico’s most distinguished progressive journalists and political analysts, takes stock of President Sheinbaum’s performance so far and how she plans to deal with Trump.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Walden Bello
Politics / December 6, 2024 Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and the Marcos-Duterte FeudThe clash between the Philippines’s dynastic duo is an entertaining political soap opera. But this spat has the potential to turn violent very fast.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
elclarin.cl | Walden Bello
Tiempo de lectura aprox: 9 minutos, 39 segundosHay varias certezas sobre el segundo mandato de Donald Trump. Una es que será malo para el clima. Otra es que será malo para la democracia estadounidense. La tercera es que será en gran medida malo para las minorías y para las mujeres. Pero cuando se trata de asuntos, como la política exterior, la palabra clave es imprevisibilidad. Como se vio en su primer mandato, Trump es la imprevisibilidad personificada.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Walden Bello
There are a number of certainties about the coming Trump administration. One is that it will be bad for the climate. Another is that it will be bad for American democracy. A third is that it will be largely bad for minorities and for women. But when it comes to many other matters, like foreign policy, the key word is unpredictability, for Trump, as the world learned during his first term in office, is unpredictability personified.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Walden Bello
There are a number of certainties about the coming Trump administration. One is that it will be bad for the climate. Another is that it will be bad for American democracy. A third is that it will be largely bad for minorities and for women. But when it comes to many other matters, like foreign policy, the key word is unpredictability, for Donald Trump, as the world learned during his first term in office, is unpredictability personified.
