Violent protests across the global South, in response to rocketing food prices from 2006 to 2008, highlighted an intrinsic flaw in the modern system of world trade—one that poses a serious threat to regional and international stability. In The Food Wars, Walden Bello traces the evolution of this crisis, examining its eruption in Mexico, Africa, the Philippines and China. Daring in vision and impassioned in tone, The Food Wars speaks out against the obscene imbalance in the most basic commodities between northern and southern hemispheres.

The legendary leader of Vietnam was not big on revolutionary theory, says Bello, but he and fellow anti-imperialists today might learn from and be inspired by his portrayals of a committed revolutionary translating the concepts and ideas into strategy, tactics, and organization that would defeat two empires. He collects 49 speeches, essays, position statements, reports, and public letters. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In questo libro l'autore intende mostrare come, nonostante l'immensità delle spese militari e delle risorse nazionali, l'esercito statunitense sia sovraesposto rispetto alle sue reali possibilità, mentre i costi aumentano sempre più sino a mandare in crisi l'economia. Un'economia in affanno significa - sottolinea l'autore - lo sfruttamento di altri paesi, ulteriori spese belliche, difficoltà politiche e di relazioni sempre maggiori. Un circolo vizioso che, storicamente, accomuna gli imperi all'alba della loro fine.

A Movement of Movements charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization. Leading theorists and activists…the Zapatistas' Subcomandante Marcos, Chittaroopa Palit from the Indian Narmada Valley dam protests, Soweto anti-privatization campaigner Trevor Ngwane, Brazilian Sem Terra leader João Pedro Stedile, and many more…discuss their personal formation as radicals, the history of their movements, their analyses of globalization, and the nuts and bolts of mobilizing against a US-dominated world system.

Explaining how the Global South and the experience of indigenous peoples have provided such a dynamic and practical inspiration, the contributors describe the roles anarchism and direct democracy have played, the contributions and limitations of the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre as a coordinating focus, and the effects of and responses to the economic downturn, September 11, and Washington's war on terror. Their statements, at once personal and visionary, offer a dazzling new insight into the political imagination of the global resistance movements.

Thailand has come to be known as the Fifth Tiger. With the Asian economic collapse of 1997-1998, this book poses the central question: Is this merely a short term crisis or is there a real prospect of Thailand being pushed back into Third World status? The International Monetary Fund has intervened with an irrelevant, indeed damaging policy package that promises to determine the outcome.
A Siamese Tragedy argues that, even before the collapse, the Thai economy had feet of clay. Walden Bello and his co-authors show how vested interests, local and international, propelled the Thai people down a particular path which is unsustainable in terms of human exploitation, social disruption, ecological damage and economic fragility. Thailand, like rest of the world, needs to rethink the fundamentals of its economic model.