Haroon's devlog
Occasional news and views on international development
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Glen, Gary and Ross: a film about land grabs
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An excellent short video from Oxfam that explains the motivations behind land grabbing in developing countries.
Friday, September 2, 2011
recent activities, summer 2011
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The 2010 - 2011 academic session has all but ended, which means that now I am entering, as usual, my 'busy' time of the year. I hav...
Crash club: when sputtering economies collide
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Trust Mike Davis to tell it like it is. It is going to be a difficult few years. Crash club: when sputtering economies collide - Opinion...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Freedom for Palestine
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A week ago I transited through Johannesburg -- my first time in South Africa. I found it quite ironic that I arrived in O.R. Tambo Internat...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Twenty-two years later, we still believe the Tiananmen myth
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This is an excellent post on the myths and realities around the Tiananmen events of 20 years ago. Brian's blog
Thursday, May 19, 2011
the curious case of the missing recovery
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Join Jim Stanford in this excellent search for Canada's economic recovery. My thanks to Brian Robinson for showing me this.
"Every 30 minutes": crushed by debt and neoliberal reforms, Indian farmers commit suicide at staggering rate
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A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The crisis has...
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