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AOC Keeps Speaking Truth to Power

In an interview on Latino USA broadcast May 21, 2021 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reflects on the tactics of marginalization (and when marginalization doesn’t work, termination) and the limitations of moving from reactive to proactive collective action within the Democratic Party in her second term in the US Congress. Interviewer Maria Hinojosa contemplates the limitations on effective […]

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“You think of it as this grim, bleak place.”

“… China, so often from a distance, you think of “1984.” You think of it as this grim, bleak place. And to me, living there, I always felt like the much better analogue was “Brave New World,” where it is just so easy to be entertained, to look away, where the dark very much coexists […]

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Restructuring the Economy in the New Paradigm

An interview with Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist with the International Monetary Fund makes an important point about the need to restructure National economies to include health care for the citizenry as a fundamental role of government in order to create sustainable economies based on a productive workforce. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/28/884351897/global-economy-far-worse-off-than-previously-thought-imf-predicts

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Why is an archeological framework useful to understand the world? Updates, doings, observations and others commentary