The end justifies the means when something justifies the end (Joseph Stalin) 1. In case you have not noticed it, consensus positions are pushed by the powerful to benefit the…
-If you do not have the courage of living the way you think, you end up thinking the way you live. (Albino Gomez) -Our lives begin to end the day…
-In the post-truth era, it is not pessimism that is called-for, realism is. Perhaps truth will ultimately survive and there will be a renaissance. It will take a long time…
In development work, there is a tendency to confuse political discourse with technical knowledge, enhancing the power of select experts over a) political actors/activists, and b) over the empirical knowledge…
We cannot create the impression that the SDGs are a normative rather than a political framework. The SDGs are a political compromise, one that many-of-those-who-should do not fully support. (Simone…
Nothing disappears until it is truly replaced. (Auguste Comte) 1. Neoliberalism is not really new. It is actually an even more anti-social version of 20th century capitalism some of us…
Claudio Schuftan MD September 1, 2017 Key words: Human rights, globalization, contradictions IJHS, 2017 Setting the stage The two decades following the Cold War were celebrated and decried as the…
Donor countries (the US in particular) continue to push WHO towards working with industry through ‘multi‐stakeholder partnerships’, rather than giving WHO the chance to implement regulatory and financial strategies that…
. Preamble: The human right to health is indispensable for the exercise of other human rights. 1. The link between an individuals’ state of health and his/her access to health…
Look at the travesty of language: ‘The excluded’ are the majority, no?; actually, the ‘included’ are the minority. . 1. Inviting a token ‘voice’ to speak briefly at an international…