NO MORE THAN WE NEED On several occasions over the years i have encountered versions of this ancient African parable:   ...

Street bands playing Rock'n'Roll in Berlin, Marvin Gaye in a local bar in Thailand, Nas blaring on the streets of Johannesburg, Ho...

A Chinese national magazine has asked me to write a short piece on Berlin:  On the occasional sunny days of this unusually cold summe...

In a Johannesburg bookstore i came across a big hardback volume called Why Africa is So Poor , and on the back was this blurb:  "T...

Abu Ghraib was no aberration, the recent pissing on corpses was no exception, and neither was last week's murder spree. quite the opposi...

They give a man 1 fish to feed a family of 10, after having taken 1,000 fishes from him, while continuing to take massive quantities of fis...

There can be no reconciliation between total despair wrt the global situation, and a confident, cheerful disposition in the everyday sphere....

i saw the best minds of my generation seduced by advertising, distracted aloof oblivious, serving clients in chic offices in the afternoo...

just in case you have not read or seen it. like me.

Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. by William Blum Table of Contents Introduction 1. China - 1945 to 1960...