We are caught in a battle for ideas — the beliefs and values that govern how the entire world works. And the only way to join the battle is to question your own assumptions and make sure that what you believe — about yourself, the world, and the connections between the two — fits what you...
This past year, on an October afternoon, we carefully secured the last piece of luggage to our truck, said a half-smiling, teary-eyed goodbye to our house, and drove away from our University home. We called that home Aurora, and my wife and I had lived in her dancing lights for...
In part two, of the article series 'Capitalism is Just a Story and other Dangerous thoughts', we explore the role of ordinary citizens like you and I, and what possibilities exist for truly emancipatory social change.
Our system of modern capitalism is just one story; it is not the only one there is. It’s not inherent within us. It isn’t some inevitable expression of predefined Human Nature. It was invented by human beings and so human beings can change it. But in order to get there,...
Commons, Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, Ideas, Money, Power, Secrets
4 reasons to question the official ‘poverty eradication’ story of 2015
The UN is currently coordinating a grand manoeuver of immense complexity. In order to agree to a new generation of global development outcomes called the Sustainable Development Goals. Unfortunately, even a cursory understanding of the data shows it is little more than hype, designed to rally public support behind a...
This is a big year for anyone interested in, or caught in the teeth of, poverty and extreme inequity. It’s the year of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be agreed by heads of state in New York in September. Right now, tens of thousands of people—from NGOs, to...
‘Development’ has failed to deliver. The reason, Jason Hickel argues, is that development organisations have failed to address the structural drivers of poverty
The big question is whose interests the World Bank really serves. While they spend considerable time and money painting themselves as champions of the poor, the Bank has a battery of practices and policies that suggest a very different truth.
Just 85 cats have as many mice as the poorest 3.5 billion combined. A recent report by Oxfam says that just 85 cats have as many mice as the poorest 3.5 billion cats in the world. Catipalism clearly isn't working out for the majority of cats.
I used to work in the aid business. For about ten years. I loved it for most of that time. But I gradually lost faith with the basic premise; that aid and charity are anything like solutions to all the problems the big aid agencies say they want to solve:...
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