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Hail Correa!

Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Venezuela and now, very likely Ecuador: In another electoral turn to the left for Latin America, 43 year-old economist-academic Rafael Correa looks set to … Continue reading

29 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Microcredit Not Just For “Poor” Countries

by Enrique Gili SAN DIEGO, California, Nov 8 (IPS) – In a conservative industry focused on the bottom line, Patti Mason doesn’t sound like your ordinary bank president. The former … Continue reading

9 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Perils of Globeerization

Interesting look at some of the global history and political economy of beer by Chris O’Brien | Foreign Policy in Focus | 24 October, 2006 The world’s cup runneth over … Continue reading

26 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Recent microcredit critiques

… as expected, they’re coming in. Its always worth remembering that the corporate, neoliberal model is not the only type of microcredit available – the corporate types, both public and … Continue reading

23 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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