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Reading Piketty I: A Concise and Comprehensive Summary of Capital and Ideology

In this summary, Walden Bello distills the key ideas and data contained in Thomas Piketty’s monumental work Capital and Ideology. The French economist deserves to be read by more people, but many have neither the time nor energy to work through this sprawling...
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The AFP as thought police

'A reign of terror is about to be imposed on the university by idiots whose main criterion for red-tagging you is that if you sound subversive or you are critical of the president and the military, then you must be a rotten subversive' originally posted on rappler.com...
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The face of things to come

The storming of Capitol shows America has entered the Weimar Era By mid-February 2021, American deaths from Covid-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May, more Americans will have died from Covid-19 than during...
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The United States Has Entered a Frightening Weimar Era

The violent storming of the Capitol by pro-Trump extremists underlines the face of crises to come. originally posted on Commondreams By mid-February 2021, American deaths from COVID-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By...
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The day after…

Mar 8, 2008 |

(Bali, Dec. 16). A day after the dramatic ending of the Bali climate talks, many are wondering if the result was...

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