Bill Mollison has said: "A crisis is brought on by people who don't want to do something for themselves...and people who want to control others, talk about Peak Oil and crisis because everyone else is panicking".  This is a nice definition of crisis. Undoubtedly, crisis is a human-made phenomenon. In Bolivia, "crisis" is a constant [...]

It is a maxim of history that empire justifies its actions with eloquent and moving rhetoric. From the earliest, most blatantly smash-mouth empires, to the subtle but more invasive American empire of the modern age, appeals have always been made to the public to justify the military and diplomatic adventures of empire.  These appeals take many [...]

Last Friday Bolivian President Evo Morales, accompanied by Marcelo Claure CEO of Brightstar Corporation, announced that Bolivia would provide a laptop for every child in the country. With Bolivia's entrance into the One Laptop Per Child Project, I've started to think seriously about some of the limitations of this initiative. On the very same [...]