Recent news stories of interest
“Transnational Social Production Networks,” Social Europe, May 6, 2020. “The Corona Virus and the Limits of the Market: Convert Defense and Other Industries to Fight New Security Threats,” Portside, March 28, 2020.
What are the goals of the Global Teach-In 2020? How do we #democratizethecrisis?
By Jonathan Michael Feldman, April 26, 2020 Overview The Global Teach-In is a globally mediated event involving multiple countries and locations. The goal is to advance: a) knowledge and resource sharing among organizers and local communities; b) advancement of short-term solutions; c) promotion of long-term structural reform; d) creating organizing bridges through reconstructive institutions, e)…
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Articles on COVID19 & Africa
Here are some recent news reports on the corona crisis and its impact on Africa. On the growing cases in Cameroon, see this link. See Job Shipululo Amupanda’s analysis of Namibia here. On South Africa, see Patrick Bond’s analysis here. The spread of the virus in Zambia is noted here. A general report explaining the…
Adam Tooze and the Corona Crisis: The Limits of Big Thinkers
By Jonathan Michael Feldman, March 28, 2020 In an interview with Vox, Adam Tooze correctly explains that both the right and the left make mistakes in their understanding of the corona crisis and its solutions. He argues: “The left wants reformist change and the right wants to allow the market process to operate unencumbered. Both…
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The Corona Virus and the Limits of the Market: Convert Defense and Other Industries to Fight New Security Threats
March 21, 2020; Updated March 27, 2020 By Jonathan Michael Feldman A Crisis of Supply and Demand The Corona Virus crisis is a crisis of both economic supply and economic demand. The supply crisis is triggered by factories closing to protect factory workers and other businesses doing the same (to protect workers or consumers). The…
The Uppsala University “Negro” Controversy: A Case of Swedish Cultural Imperialism
By Jonathan M. Feldman, March 4, 2020 POLITICALLY CORRECT BUT DISINGENUOUS NONSENSE An article in University World News dated January 18, 2020 declares that the word “Negro” cannot be used, even for historical search purposes–at least that is the view of some politically correct students. As Jan Petter Myklebust explains: ” A social media storm…
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How Our Popular Culture Funded by Citizens’ Public Money is a Recruitment Poster for SD
By Jonathan M. Feldman, (Updated) January 29, 2020 It’s not enough that 25% of the population are willing to support a party initiated by Nazis, now public television is joining the act by preparing cultural programs to suit their customers, the new and growing Swedish Democrats (SD) demographic. The program in question, Kalifat, focuses on…
Parts of the Left Still Do Not Understand Trump
July 18, 2019 By Jonathan M. Feldman Donald Trump’s formula for success is to combine “refractions of truth” with lies. The dogmatic left only says that he “lies.” That is too obvious for comment, but some fetishize this fact. That’s #sad. What is a “refraction of truth”? It is a discourse that looks like the truth,…
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Why the Left is in Big Trouble: A Global Teach-In Exclusive about the Ten Reasons Why Trump and European Populists Might Continue to Win and the Ecosystem Could Be Toast
September 21, 2019, Updated November 1, 2019 By Jonathan M. Feldman I don’t have time for a detailed analysis, but the answer is simply the following (many of these refer to the right as well, only they have more power thus using their techniques are not sufficient, plus the right does other stuff the left…
The Semi-Colon and the Implosion of the Swedish Educational System
By Jonathan Michael Feldman In the last year, or even months, I have begun to notice that many students are unable to use the semi colon properly in my university classes. It’s a small step that demonstrates that the Swedish education system is failing. Here is how this failure works and teaches us valuable lessons.…
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