Does green matter?
Why is the developed world, that is obsessed with the idea of `greed economy’, thrusting its new capitalist variant – green economy – on the growing economies? Is it a calculated move to pin down the growing differences between the north and the south with a green business model? Henk Manschot, a Professor of Ethics [...]
Globalization of collective unconsciousness and free will
Has globalization molded the ‘collective unconsciousness’ and subsumed individual free will (at least the illusion of it)? If so, is that a negative development because globalization is not rooted in predatory profit motive based on a hierarchical social model instead of humane-compassion-rooted conscience? If everything is for sale, why not thought and creativity, why not [...]
Diaspora vote no longer a question of YES or NO but HOW and WHEN
As public hearings and debate officially and formally start on the Electoral Amendments Bill, our position as Zimbabwe Democrats is very clear and straightfowward: Each and every Zimbabwean who is above 18 years of age must be able to vote regardless of where they are, and this is what the Constitution of Zimbabwe says and [...]
Death toll to 5 and more than 44 injured due to earthquake in Nepal
It has been reported that Nepal was hit by a 6.8 on Richter scale earthquake which resulted in 5 dead and more than 44 injured in different parts of Nepal at 6:25 PM here on Sunday evening. 3 pedestrians including Sajan Shrestha 36, his eight-year-old daughter Anisha and Bir Bahadur Majhi, were killed due to [...]
Egypt’s Mass Strikes: When the economic becomes political (VIDEOS)
As thousands of workers continue to strike in the Upper Egyptian sugar refineries over pay, work conditions, as well as purging the management from the remnants of Mubarak’s regime. The strikers, seen in the videos, also accuse the management of clientalism to the US and Israel, and chant for “open strikes till the fall of [...]
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