Haiti a victim of urban-centric development policies

Heard today on NPR: Haiti suffers from a legacy of industrial export oriented development policies with neglect for development of broad based, rural oriented policies (which would have been focused on things such as universal education and agricultural development policies) ... echoes experiences in so many other countries, but with more overt neocolonial underpinnings

priviledge and radicalism

So many suicide bombers are coming from privileged backgrounds (Balawi, Abdulmutalla, etc.) ... living in W. Philly, can't help to notice a concentration of privilege especially within the most dogmatic anachist/radical circles ... what does this mean?

Urban Social Cohesion and Schizophrenia

wow ... nice to see science connecting up with these ideas:

• Putting Madness in Its Place: Can the Environment Explain Schizophrenia's Hereditary Patterns?: Scientific American