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The Coming Capitalist Consensus

The Deficits of U.S. Democracy...

The Financial Crisis and the Food Crisis: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Why Rednecks Will Rule the World

Biden, Obama and The Blood-Dimmed Tide

Howard Zinn: Anarchism Shouldn't Be a Dirty Word

The Choice Is Yours

In this column Gregor Wolbring raises questions about where we are going with our new technologies. He believes that marginalized people must be included in the discourse if negative consequences are to be avoided. (Reprinted from Innovation Watch.)

The Year 2008 -- A Recap

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Glossary for the 21st Century

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Key Facts on Some Important Topics

Globalization

Why should progressives support globalization? Read this article for an overview of our philosophy of values oriented pragmatism" and why it suggests the need for a global perspective.

"YOU CAN'T TURN BACK THE DAWN"

Huridocs

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By Layla Anwar --

An excerpt

Come and see our overflowing morgues and find our little ones for us...

You may find them in this corner or the other, a little hand poking out, pointing out at you...

Come and search for them in the rubbles of your “surgical” air raids, you may find a little leg or a little head...pleading for your attention.

Come and see them amassed in the garbage dumps, scavenging morsels of food...

Well over half of our little ones are under nourished or dying from disease. Cholera, disentery, infections of all sorts....

Under nourished does not mean on a diet like your fat little kids. It means not having food to eat. It means cannot find food to eat. It means starved.

Come and see, come....

For the entire poem/essay, click here.

Philanthrocapitalism and Corporate Social Responsibility:

Do They Really Empower Civil Society?

By Radha Holla

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Lakshmi Menon

Introduction

The website of Wharton School Publishing (http://www.whartonsp.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0131467506) lures potential readers to C.K. Prahalad’s Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid with the following words:

The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market? It's where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense entrepreneurial capabilities and buying power. You can learn how to serve them and help millions of the world's poorest people escape poverty…. It is being done—profitably. Whether you're a business leader or an anti-poverty activist, business guru Prahalad shows why you can't afford to ignore "Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) markets.

For the entire editorial, Click here .

The Village Health Worker: Lackey or Liberator?

Breaking The Grip of Globalization On Poverty-Related Ill-Health

Empowerment and Health

Health and Equity: Need for a People's Perspective in the Quest for World Health

Evaluating Cuba's Pilot Project in Community Based Rehabilitation

Communications As If People Mattered

Primary Health Care and the Temptation of Excellence: What We Learned From Maria

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The Radical Edge

Radical means going to the "root" of an issue. We have put these articles here not because we necessarily agree with all that their authors say, but because we believe they challenge us to examine our fundamental assumptions about health, politics and society.