On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> They put out some lovely press releases for a while, but Mexico is
> not a better place today than it was in 1993. It's really worth
> examining how the appeal of that line fits in with traditional
> American anti-statism, which naturally hangs to the right, and with
> the preferences of foundation program officers, who like it that all
> that Third Sector stuff is accountable to them, not any actual
> constituency (despite NGOs' frequent claims to be a more authentic
> voice of The People than elected governments).
Not even the worst NGO should be regarded as a less authentic voice of the people than is a fraudulently elected government like those of Mexico, Iran, China, et. al.
Shane Mage
> Porphyry in his Abstinance from Animal Flesh suggests that there are
> appropriate offerings to all the Gods, and to the highest the only
> offering acceptable is silence.