September 30, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Corporatism, Economy, Politics, Public Policy, Risk Society, Social Inequalities, Social Privilege, Social Stratification, Social Theory, Structural Violence
George Monbiot: The free market preachers have long practised state welfare for the rich | Comment is free | The Guardian via kwout And of course, Big Corn is not the only pig at the trough. Monbiot runs down the list: Advanced Technology Program which was supposed to promote high-tech innovation in a non-competitive environment [...]
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September 30, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Ethiopia, Global Governance, Globalization, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Mass Violence, New Wars, Ogaden, Politics, Poverty, Religious Fundamentalism
L’Ogaden, la sale guerre que personne ne veut voir – Tout savoir sur les dernières actualités politiques, monde, société, sports, écologie avec le journal en ligne Libération via kwout Burnt villages, displaced populations, mass rapes, assassinations… does this sound familiar? This has become the usual pattern of new wars. Except this one does not receive [...]
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September 30, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Economy, Politics, Social Inequalities, Social Privilege, Social Stratification, Structural Violence
Don’t listen to the pundits. Congressfolks were probably swamped with emails and phonecalls and a lot of them are up for reelection… damn "people", they screwed up the big Obama-Paulson plan. As always, Ian Welsh explains: "Over the last 30 years the US had a class war , and the middle class lost almost every [...]
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September 30, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Development, Economy, Education, Gender, Global Imaginary, Human Rights, Microcredit, Patriarchy, Population, Poverty, Sexism
Via Davidson at Corrente: See also the website. A simple way to put what a lot of people in development have been shouting for years.
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