Brussels Perhaps the most interesting question I have gotten at a screening of “The Organizer” in a long time came from Professor Philippe van Parijs of the University of Louvain in Belgium, a noted scholar long recognized over many decades as an expert and advocate of universal basic income. He asked a several part question, …
Month: October 2018
Periferia and Global NGOs
Brussels Leaving Grenoble we jumped on the tram to then take the train to Paris, once there hopped onto the Metro to switch between the Lyon station and the Paris North station, grabbed another train to Brussels, disembarked to a local tram near the station until our directions said turn right at the corner when …
Rogue Kingdom, Thug Ally, What the Frick?
Grenoble Ok, I’m way out of my wheelhouse here, but “come on, man!” A country can’t really be able to get away with saying, “whoops, my bad” when fifteen of its agents bushwhack a dissident in their own embassy and supposedly accidentally kill him. After two weeks of dissembling, denying, and trying out “alternative facts,” …