The events in Haiti have left me just like many others leaving feeling distraught and helpless. Short of donating money and, for those of us who can, leaving for Haiti to lend a helping hand, there doesn’t seem to be a lot more we can do. I have been struggling for the last week to… Read More Some thoughts on Haiti
.. check out some of the effects people from around the world have had when they stood up against an entire economic system in this insightful and interesting article by Naomi Klein: All of them much go, by Naomi Klein (The Nation) Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell… Read More If you thought you couldn’t make a difference…
I’ve been reading a lot lately. Not as much as I used to, and that’s because of the economy (hey, everything else is being blamed on the economy, why not this?). In any case, I’m currently rereading Naomi Klein’s The Shock Therapy (maybe you remember me mentioning it perhaps a few times in the last… Read More My beloved little Irony, how thoroughly you keep me amused
http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-colbert-report/interviews-a-z/interviews-k/#clip99544… Read More Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: A small introduction
… It means that I couldn’t just make it about fun and games – there had to be at least one post about the economic crisis and the world’s current state of affairs! Here is a lovely interview of Mrs. Naomi Klein, whose latest book, The Shock Doctrine, is a must read for every single… Read More Because Christmas also means thinking about others…