-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’…
(Louis Casado) -Along human history, fictitious stories, over and over, succeeded over the truth. For hundreds of years, historians have known this. This is why they so often have had…
I think that, like in boxing, the Left has received a big blow and is groggy, not knowing where to go (Boaventura de Souza Santos) 15. The history of political…
(Claudio Sepulveda) Politics is not the art of the possible, but the result of the correlation of forces (Louis Casado) 1. These days, in so many countries, politics are not…