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Times, they are a-changin’
There’s a good chance that unless you’ve been intentionally following what has come to be affectionately known in some circles as Three-Cups-of-Tea-gate, you missed this update on the KPLU website...
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Purity
I’ll be vulnerable and confess up front that I really, really dislike professional sports. I won’t belabor the point, except to say that I see as plain immoral the amount of money being paid to someone...
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Humanitarianism is a Syndrome
It was intriguing and also a bit disconcerting to read two of Paul Currion’s recent posts over at Humanitarian.Info (Humanitarianism is a Disease, The Two Crises of Humanitarianism). Most of it rings...
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Missionary, Mercenary, Mystic, Misfit
It was only a matter of time before I got around to publishing a second work of humanitarian fiction (#humfiction). Disastrous Passion was the first. I never before thought I’d write a romance novel,...
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It’s a Crappy World
This started out as one post. Then it became three. Then four. Now it’s one, again. Late-night riffing that may inadvertently be the outline of a book someday. Or at least a sweet PowerPoint...
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The Aid Industry. The Media
It was only a matter of time before a bunch of journalists decided to get together and let us, aid workers, know how they collectively feel about us. Not that we had no inkling previously, but anyway,...
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Part I: Standards
If you’re one of those people who’s convinced that the aid industry is not accountable and doesn’t have standards, you’ll be thrilled to learn that, well, actually we are, and we do. Actually, we have...
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Part II: One Standard To Rule Them All
I suppose now is as good a time as any to let you in on a little humanitarian aid industry nugget that, so far as I can tell, has received zero attention from any of the major news outlets that...
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