Global Protests Round-Up, Proposed Causes: Global Slump, Income Inequality, Social Media (and More)
Today’s global protests are an enormous story, bigger than Occupy. Here are some of the frames that journalists are using to cover them.
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2:00PM Water Cooler 10/28/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Warren, impeachment and the so-called “deep state,” William Gibson and RussiaGate, voting machines, trade, national activity, inventories, manufacturing, AirBnB, Tesla, Apple, PG&E, fracking and earthquakes, Amílcar Lopes de costa Cabral, Bob Dylan, the fabulous Sixties
Read more...Links 10/28/19
Johnson’s Brexit Is Inspired by Blair, Eden and Chamberlain – Not Churchill
Describing how the political roots of Brexit run deep.
Read more...Global Protests Round-Up: Authoritarian Adaptation, Data Gathering, and the Role of Class
A review of the literature on global protests (as in Chile, France, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, and Spain/Catalonia).
Read more...Links 10/27/19
Wall Street Has Been Gambling With Student Loan Debt For Decades
As the student debt crisis continues to mount, major financial institutions are making record profits from student loan asset backed securities.
Read more...Our Response to the Next Crisis Must Tackle Consumerism
Ideas for taking on consumerism.
Read more...The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic: Part 3 of 4: The Final Hammer-Blows
The crisis of the Roman Republic.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 10/25/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Biden and PACs, Ryan, Sanders, Sanders and MeTV, Warren, impeachment process, debates, rich zip codes, consumer sentiment, WeWork, Amazon Ring, quantum computing, Google search, Exxon suit, green power, single payer cost estimates
Read more...Automation: Robots in Real Life
The reality of robots is often mundane.
Read more...Links 10/25/19
The Famous Baseball-Watching Equality-Equity Graphic, Scrutinized
Turning to a classic policy debate: equality versus equity.
Read more...Chile in Flames: The Neoliberal Model in Crisis Throughout the Region
An overview of the protests in Chile.
Read more...How Europe’s Greedy Lending to Africa Is Driving the Migration Wave That Fuels the EU’s Xenophobic Politics
How Europe is creating the conditions in Africa that lead to migration….and the underlying stresses are set to get worse.
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