While the world strategized…
A few days ago, a news report by the BBC caught my eye. It said the Red Cross reported some 800,000 people as disabled by the ongoing war in Afghanistan. […]
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The blame game and the true game
Every once in a while, you have politicians, police officers, people supposed to prevent sexual harassment make public comments about women provoking rape. Predictably, it unleashes a storm of criticism.
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Transcript: Globalizing Inequality by P. Sainath Part 2
Transcript of Globalizing Inequality – a lecture by P. Sainath, sponsored by the Center for Social and Environmental Justice of Washington State University, Vancouver. Video by pdxjustice Media Productions. Part
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Transcript: Globalizing Inequality by P. Sainath Part 1
Transcript of Globalizing Inequality – a lecture by P. Sainath, sponsored by the Center for Social and Environmental Justice of Washington State University, Vancouver. Video by pdxjustice Media Productions. Part
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The fun and profit approach to anti-corruption
There is big attention to corruption these days. People are exhorted to stop supporting corruption, to blow the whistle when they witness corruption, etc. At the same time, after much
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Developments in the Keenan and Reuben case
This post continues from where the earlier one about the Facts of the Keenan and Reuben Case ended. That one was getting too long, and new information was coming in. This is fairly comprehensive – I think.
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Poor to Broke: Rethinking poverty solutions
As Mike Todd famously said, “I’ve never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation” This is the place we
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Power Dynamics of the JanLokpal Andolan
In the previous article, I have outlined some dynamics of power. Those are universal. They help us understand the JanLokpal agitation and how it is unfolding. Whether you call this
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My experience with domestic violence
Many see women who remain in abusive circumstances as somehow not fighting back. They are assumed to be reconciled to their fate in life. Many think they develop a kind
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