In this blog I write about world affairs, presenting a view of the world free from NATO propaganda.
Peace Anthropology and Development Anthropology and History are the tools with which I analyze international affairs, as part of a world-wide web of people working for peace through Transcend, UNIDIR and other agencies. Terrorism? This is largely political propaganda: my EPES Mandala Consulting group specialized in “terrorism” and far more people die each year from road accidents or from the flu, than from terror attacks. A lot of news is fear-mongering and most comes from a small number of corporate and government sources. Investigative journalists are a threatened species.
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
The evidence suggests that inside the Israeli State Apparatus, there are people who wish to destroy Gaza and use famine as one weapon of war. The killing of aid workers is a deliberate policy of these people, aiming to disrupt the flow of aid.
Read MoreErnst Friedrich Schumacher (1911 –1977) was a German-British statistician and economist who pushed for human-scale, decentralized and appropriate technologies. We live in a world that took the exact opposite route. Big operators are encouraged to swallow their rivals: this concentration of economic power being facilitated by the venal politicians that the corporations finance. Corporate consolidation has led to obscene concentrations of power.
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