Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. Two Ebola survivors are suing the government of Sierra Leone in international court to discover what happened to missing millions of dollars meant to compensate and support survivors like them. Many had their clothes burned in the effort to fight the spread of the disease, and survivors were promised a support package that often failed to materialize. More than 30 percent of the resources donated to the government were...
Read More »Connected and Disaffected
That’s the title of a UK podcast on which I appeared recently, talking about Zombie Economics Soundcloud stream: https://soundcloud.com/connectedanddisaffected/season-2-episode-1-the-grand-relaunch Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=165173310736451&id=114184012502048 Twitter: https://twitter.com/CandDPodcast/status/925800309351428097 It can also be found on ITunes and other podcast directories.
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[embedded content] ΑΝΤΙ ΣΧΟΛΙΟΥ: Κάποτε o Άπτον Σινκλαίρ είχε πει: “Μου είναι δύσκολο να κάνω κάποιον να καταλάβει κάτι όταν ο μισθός του εξαρτάται από το να μην το καταλάβει.” [‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.’]...
Read More »Yanis Varoufakis talks about Brexit, feminism and why he feels at home in Belfast – Viewdigital
By Brian Pelan on February 28, 2017 Latest news, VIEWdigital news Freelance journalist and commentator Amanda Ferguson talks to economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis ahead of a recent Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DIEM25) event in Belfast. Q: You have strong links with the island of Ireland. What do you like about the place, the people, and Belfast? A: Well, I come from a place...
Read More »Trump, Turkey & Labour’s Brexit policy – Press review, BBC1, 29 January 2017
[embedded content] Press review on the Andrew Marr show, BBC1 tv 29th January 2017
Read More »Political Correctness And The Extreme Fragmentation Of Society In Modernity
One of the defining cultural events of the 2016 election season so far has been the overwhelming rejection of the notion of political correctness expressed in the Republican selection of Donald Trump as presidential nominee. Here is Trump expounding his view on political correctness: What is the political correctness that the Trump supporters are rejecting? Trump-supporting website Infowars.com gives the following definition: In his novel 1984, George Orwell imagined a future world where...
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