Archive for the 'Latin America' Category
I came across this interesting power-point presentation of the Stations of the Cross by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate from Argentina, and I thought I would share it with you. What is different about these Stations is that the scenes of the Passion are actually contextualised to reflect current day realities.
This particular [...]
August 13th, 2007 | Posted in Christianity, Corporate-led globalisation, Development issues, Environment/climate change, Global justice movement, Human rights, Latin America, Marginalised groups, Neo-liberal economics, Poverty | No Comments
So Wolfowitz goes without being held accountable for his criminal scheming against Iraq.
After I wrote the piece below, an academic friend told me, “Although he did have to step down, it was hardly a fall — guy walks away with that statement about acting in good faith, plus a golden hand-shake of a year’s [...]
May 22nd, 2007 | Posted in Accountability, Corporate-led globalisation, Democracy, Development issues, Global justice movement, Human rights, IMF/World Bank, Iraq, Latin America, Marginalised groups, Militarism, Neo-liberal economics, Poverty | No Comments
I find Latin America a fascinating continent, though I have never been there. But I am inspired by the stories of the suffering of countless numbers of ordinary people who resisted the authoritarian rule of US-backed right-wing regimes. Many of these regimes served to protect the economic interests of the local (largely white) wealthy elite [...]
March 15th, 2007 | Posted in Christianity, Corporate-led globalisation, Human rights, Latin America, United States | No Comments
While attending the Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Singapore, I soon realised that a slick makeover job, a real PR job, was underway.
In recent years, these two global financial institutions have received some bad press for the tremendous damage their policies have had [...]
March 9th, 2007 | Posted in Corporate-led globalisation, Global justice movement, IMF/World Bank, Latin America, Neo-liberal economics, United States | No Comments
The real war in our world today is not “the war on terror” but a larger, more critical struggle for the soul of our world.
A monumental battle is taking place between those who want to ram through neo-liberal economic policies that favour the large multinationals and those trying to formulate more enlightened pro-people economic policies [...]
March 6th, 2007 | Posted in Global justice movement, Latin America, Neo-liberal economics, Poverty, United States | No Comments