The World Economic Forum, a group of some 30,000 of the world’s most wealthy and powerful elite, leaders of whom predicted last year’s pandemic, are now offering us a new forecast. Ice Age Farmer five minute video discusses this latest soothsaying. Below is an excerpt from an article by writer Karen Hunt, The Chinafication of … More Pro-Democracy: The New Resistance
A good friend of mine here in Cambodia regularly says “If I had a gun, I would kill many people”. It’s ironic and funny because he’s a comedian who would never hurt a flea. The more serious underlying message is his reference to the terrible things he knows go on in our general vicinity. A … More Chickens For A Toilet
If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you’ll end up doing nothing for nobody. These words appear at the end of a short video currently doing the rounds on Facebook. In it, a young homeless man in a ripped t-shirt stands on a cold Manhattan street, holding … More “Just Stop”
It’s now over a week since I saw the homeless lady with her baby. I like to think that she was able to find a safe alternative and has gone onto better things, kick started by the money earned from selling her hair. In reality it’s just as possible that she has been trafficked to … More The Difference a Little Can Make
These are a shortened alteration of words written by Martin Luther King Jr, the famous American Civil Rights leader. They are words that have always struck a chord with me. In quoting them here, I researched where they came from and it’s an interesting story. In Birmingham Alabama in April 1963, during demonstrations against racial segregation, … More Injustice Anywhere Threatens Justice Everywhere
The amount of unaffordable debt that I hear about here, is staggering. Very many Cambodian families go into debt in order to pay for health care, which is usually unavailable unless the charges can be paid, but with so many people living on or under the poverty line, paying bills is not possible unless a … More Vulnerability
There is a seedy side to Cambodia which thankfully, as a woman living provincially, I have not really been exposed to. Nearing the end of a weekend in Phnom Penh, this morning Bee and I found ourselves sitting at an al-fresco pub on the riverfront for a few hours. After a while we began to … More Paradoxical Phnom Penh
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