whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1.
(Comments)

...rket capitalism or representative democracy. Although they certainly do have an abundance of centralised brutality and authority. I remember the story of the protester in Genoa. Given the number ...

2. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...m them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that so...

3. The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ave heard of him, but Shi is the first casualty in new-media's complicity in yielding up its users to brutal regimes. Shi is currently serving a ten-year sentence for distributing Chinese state s...

4. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
(Analysis/Analysis)

...portunities and excludes those who would help. There is no nobility in poverty.  Poverty is grubby, brutal and tragic.  It destroys hope and opportunity.  It degrades the self and lead...

5. Zimbabwe at the Security Council; South Africa's unequivocal support
(Analysis/Analysis)

...decision to reject a British request to discuss Zimbabwe. As a follow-up to their recent support for the brutal kleptocracy in Myanmar, it is a strident and jarring reminder that respect for democrac...

6. The ANC government of South Africa declares its comfort with violence and brutality
(Analysis/Analysis)

...p to a bunch of autocratic anti-democratic thugs.  She remains under house arrest. Her people remain brutalised and oppressed. Which is why the South African government sided with the Burmese mi...

7. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e else and will protect them from anti-competitive behaviour while they do so. Capitalism is certainly a brutal system; but that brutality is not aimed at consumers.  It is aimed at the very bus...

8. The Responsibility Gap
(Analysis/Analysis)

...se is hardly their fault. Nepalese have chosen a government and monarch who steal from them. That it is a brutal dictatorship is not the fault of the US. Regime change has not proven a successful stra...