-Reality has three levels: objective, subjective and inter-subjective. The first is bulletproof, the second disappears when the person that believes in it passes, and the third one persists for centuries…
1. What I have to say here pertains to a series of serious questions building up on me as an experienced human rights activist over the last 25 years. The…
-Inequity exists, equity one has to fight for. (Hernan Sandoval) Equality means equal access and outcomes for equal need -It is policy failure, more than anything else that prevents us…
-Markets are interested in inequality; it makes people yearn to become consumers. 1. Historically, with time, the exploitative process of colonization changed its face and did not need brutal force…
(Lucas Grisafulli) About business, high finance and other pursuits of (pretended) happiness. (Susan George) Let us start with Karl Marx 1. For Marx, the whole capitalist system is inescapably rigged…
On foreign aid, corruption, democracy and development: implications for the human right to health. 1. For the Global South to achieve truly universal health care coverage, I posit that, from…
The difficulty has not been in floating new ideas, but in escaping the old ones that pervade every corner of our minds (John Meynard Keynes) 12. We live in a…
-Are we all being co-opted too easily by the comforts of conforming? Are we fearful of the retribution that questioning may and often does bring? (Romila Thappar) -We do have…
-A defiant development strategy is to reverse the ‘normal’. So, should development be ‘delivered’ or be participatory? You know the answer… -As a development motivation in this tinderbox, compassion is…
(Alex Gladstein, RobertoSavio) -The problem with using statistics to sing the praises of autocracy is that collecting verifiable data inside closed societies is nearly impossible. 1. The data that ‘proves’…