He is chair of the board of Focus on Global south. Professor at the state University of New York @ Binghamton. Recipient of Right Livelihood award 9 Alternative Nobel prize) in 2003. named most distinguished Human Rights Defender byAmnesty International Philippines in 2023. Authored more than 25 books, the latest one of which is counter revolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right. to add on he was one of the leaders of anti-Globalization movement and Global resistance to the Iraq war Now he just came from London assembly of Global intellectuals of conscience that proposed urgent measures to stop the Genocide in Gaza and implement the resolutions preventing genocide of the international court of justice.