Lecture delivered by Prof Dr. Chandra Muzaffar at the Centre for the Study of World Religions(CSWR), Harvard University on 1st October 2009. The Lecture is the first in the series entitled ” Ecologies of Human Flourishing.”
Please follow think link to listen to the audio of Dr. Chandra Muzaffar’s talk delivered at harvard:
http://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/resources/lectures/muzaffar3.html
People world over are disenchanted with free market capitalism, says a new BBC global survey. Those surveyed in 27 countries ? both developed and developing ? have said that there is a need for regulating businesses and distributing wealth evenly.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread [...]
Economics as if people matter
At a recent meeting in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia the aims of this project were discussed and it was agreed that as well as the readings and theoretical discussions posted on this site it is important to begin to envision the new world we can construct as an Alternative to Empire.
We need to see this project [...]
By Leah Anthony Libresco, The Huffington Post
16 June 2009
Twit:
(1) twerp: someone who is regarded as contemptible
(2) tease: harass with persistent criticism or carping; aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
I’m guessing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is currently mostly concerned with the second definition. Since the preliminary results for the Iranian election were announced, a steady stream of updates has [...]
The Times, 22 May 2008
Canon Andrew White’s family home is not exactly a rambling rectory, but with its peaceful village setting, immaculately tended garden and homely clutter, it is, by most people’s definition, idyllic and utterly conventional.
The problem for Canon White is that he is not a conventional man.
When, as he is occasionally given to [...]
By Christopher Dickey
Newsweek, 12 June 2009
When George Orwell was a young man in the 1920s, he served as a British policeman in the colony of Burma. On duty there he saw, as he put it, “the dirty work of empire at close quarters.” He deplored the “white man’s” oppression of the “native people” in “the [...]
by Tom Engelhardt
Tom Englehardt writes “…you only have to go a modest distance to conclude that we are the other great force on the planet that “doesn’t recognize borders.” Keep in mind that, right now, we’re fighting at least two-and-a-half wars thousands of miles from this sylvan campus, and in your name no less. When [...]
Live-in Conference
28th – 30th June 2009
Presented by the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University Bundoora, Melbourne
The Prospects for Peace in the Middle East Live-in Conference presents a unique opportunity for people aged 20 to 30 to explore the challenges and opportunities for conflict resolution in the Middle East with diplomats, eminent scholars and leading public [...]
Alternatives to Empire: Obama and Empire from digital birdy video on Vimeo.
‘Obama and Empire’ is Part Two of a four part series of interviews conducted by Larry Marshall with Professor Joseph Camilleri and Reverend David Pargeter, two of the founders of The Alternatives to Empire Project.