• Archive for May, 2008

    What is the Global Swadeshi Network?

    by  • May 9, 2008 • The Global Picture • 1 Comment

    The Global Swadeshi Network is a new community of people working together on various aspects of personal freedom and economic or technical self-reliance. Swadeshi is Gandhi’s term for economic self reliance. In his time, the international trade in cloth was exporting wealth from India to England, in much the same way that, right now, America [...]

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    From Zimbabwe to Afghanistan

    by  • May 6, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    As he drives out into the dusty fields of Kandahar province keeping one eye open for the Taleban, Harry Spies can’t help daydreaming sometimes about the farm he used to have in Zimbabwe. Three years after he gave up on Africa, Mr Spies is one of a number of white farmers who have brought their [...]

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    The Gospel of Consumption

    by  • May 6, 2008 • The Global Picture • 0 Comments

    …industrialists were worried. They feared that the frugal habits maintained by most American families would be difficult to break. Perhaps even more threatening was the fact that the industrial capacity for turning out goods seemed to be increasing at a pace greater than people’s sense that they needed them. It was this latter concern that [...]

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