whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

... mind and receive their need in payment I simply say, "No." There is no law they can pass and no torture that they can imagine that would make it possible to force my mind to be their tool. ...

2. "Be sure, we will be watching you," the other GB and the pursuit of social justice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...would go on to embarrass the Apartheid government on a regular basis. He revealed the true extent of state torture in the suicide of Dr Neil Agget in 1982, he researched and presented the terrible tor...

3. Two Frontiers: wars of liberation and of determination
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ht by blogging and social networking; those from the developing world expressed their despair at bannings, torture and exile. The first frontier: liberation One Guinean journalist, with his French ...

4. When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...g anyone in off the street to perform heart surgery. The outrage expressed over US military involvement in torture of captive soldiers in Iraq highlighted the reasons for honouring fairness over equal...

5. The future of Newspapers, journalistic integrity and the battle for Google's soul
(Analysis/Analysis)

... of its journalists to an autocratic police state. A few of these journalists were subsequently arrested, tortured, and imprisoned. One journalist was Shi Tao. The police state is China. And the m...

6. Have you paid your car guard today?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... cities.  The responses there were somewhat worse than here – debtors goal, exile to Australia, torture.  We reserve this behaviour for refugees from our neighbours further North. It&r...

7. The Last King, the Centralised State, and Democracy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...y someone entirely incapable of caring at all, then you have the final agonised lines of Garrigan as he is tortured by Amin, “You’re a child, that’s what makes you so fucking scary.&...

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

In 1964 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was imprisoned for life by the then Apartheid government in South Africa.  They moved rapidly to disband democracy movements in that country and imprison all the