595. THE MESSAGE CAME BACK: “ERROR 440: DEMOCRACY NOT FOUND”. (Grafitti in an unknown city)
. The great neoliberal consensus of the 1990s is now broken 1. We are in a breaking point of history, because
594. THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION REALLY IS THE SCIENCE-OF-NUTRITION-PROBLEMS-IN-SOCIETY#: Reflections before the UN Food Systems Summit.
#: Urban Jonsson . -Somehow, there is a widespread belief that nutrition as a
592. UNIVERSALLY, IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK, WHEN THERE IS A CLEAR PATH, INACTION IS UNFORGIVEABLE. (George Kent)
. -Describe your village well and you will be universal. (Leon Tolstoi)
591. HUMAN RIGHTS REPRESENT THE RETURN TO WHAT IS TRANSCENDENTAL IN POLITICS. (Regis Debray)
. -The formation of our respective political identity is ultimately a lot more complicated than what is implied in the oft-assumed trajectory from youthful (transcendental?) idealism to
590. HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS ARE HARDLY SOLVED IN AIRCONDITIONED ROOMS; THE STRUGGLE IS ELSEWHERE. (Beto O’Rourke)
. –Solidarity is something that is made –and remade, and remade. It never
589. HERE IS A CALL NOT TO GET INVOLVED IN UNREPRESENTATIVE POLITICS, BUT A CALL TO HELP CREATE A NEW POLITICS.
. The ideology behind political power brokers –Elections serve to change governments, not to change regimes, i.e.,theleft or right ideology…
588. NEOLIBERALISM GUARANTEES THE HIERARCHY OF THE HOLY TRINITY ‘PRIVATE-MARKET-FINANCES’ OVER THE UNIVERSAL VALUES OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (Gianni Tognoni)
. -As Al Capone used to say, “You get more with gentle words and a pistol in your hand than with gentle
587. UNTIL LIONS HAVE THEIR OWN HISTORIANS, HUNTING HISTORIES WILL CONTINUE TO GLORIFY HUNTERS. (African proverb)
. -For people fighting our damn wars there are no winners or losers; just survivors. But
586. CURRENT DEVELOPMENT FADS FETISHIZE DATA, OSTENSIBLY FOR WHAT IS CALLED ‘EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY-MAKING’: WHERE ARE YOU HUMAN RIGHTS?
. Let me first turn to things close to what you and