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A.H. Haar
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The transformation of the idea of justice into the industry of human rights has been a conceptual coup in which NGOs have played a crucial part. The narrow focus of human rights enables an atrocity-based analysis in which the larger picture can be blocked out...for example ...the Israeli army and Hamas...The land grab by mining corporations and the history of the annexation of Palestinian land then become footnotes
— Aug 02, 2015 09:36PM
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A.H. Haar
is on page 32 of 136
"...Bill Gates's obsession with digital databases, numerical targets, and "scorecards of progress" as though it were a lack of information that is the cause of world hunger, and not colonialism, debt, and skewed profit-oriented corporate policy"
— Aug 01, 2015 02:47PM
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Destiney Linker
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OH MY GOD THIS BOOK IS SO AMAZING. MY MIND IS BLOWN. Roy is connecting the dots in so many places I didn't even realized could be connected. Oh my god. I can't articulate anything right now because everything pales in comparison to how sharp and concise this book is.
— Jun 18, 2015 06:09PM
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Nidhi Singh
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When those who had been evicted went back to where they came from, they found their villages had disappeared under great dams and dusty quarries.Their homes were occupied by hunger-and policemen. The forests were filling up with armed guerrillas. They found that the wars from the edge of India, in Kashmir, Nagaland, Manipur, had migrated to its heart. People returned to live on city streets and pavements, in hovels..
— Mar 11, 2015 11:06PM
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Tom
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1st chapter / essay of this is really really good.
— Feb 25, 2015 11:56AM
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