By Brian D’Agostino What I find remarkable about the recent “fiscal cliff” debate in the United States, which is now morphing into the “debt ceiling” debate, is the absence of America’s bloated and obsolete war economy from the discussion, even as vitally needed programs are on the chopping block.  For two months, right wing Republicans…

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By Jonathan M. Feldman, Stockholm University, May 24, 2013. Kjöller Argument 1: Upploppen blir ett Rorschachtest, en bläckplump där allt från Sverigedemokrater till anarkister tycker sig kunna läsa in just det som bekräftar den egna verklighetsbilden… Analysis of Argument 1: The claim is that people from the far right to the far left will interpret…

Continue readingA Deconstruction of Hanne Kjöller’s article, ”Upplopp: Husby som ett Rorschachtest,” Dagens Nyheter, May 24, 2013. Accessible at: http://www.dn.se/ledare/signerat/upplopp-husby-som-ett-rorschachtest.

 By Jonathan Michael Feldman, November 25, 2015, Modified November 26, 2015. Party Leaders Valorize the Politics of Scarcity On Swedish television (SVT) yesterday we saw a series of party leaders speak. One key point was when the Green Party Leader Gustav Fridolin said that Europe must do its duty by taking in more refugees (their…

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By Jonathan Michael Feldman October 25, 2015 Capitalism as the Colonizer of Universities In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Terry Eagleton, describes “The Slow Death of the Universities.”  He writes: “Yet the distance they established between themselves and society at large could prove enabling as well as disabling, allowing them to…

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Connecting the Dots Working Group Workshop Connecting the Dots (CTD) är ett nytt Stockholmsbaserat gräsrotinitiativ och en arbetsgrupp med syfte att fungera som tankesmedja, organisatör och initiativtagare. Vi vill bjuda in er  till en workshop. Våra medlemmar är aktiva inom den breda vänstern och inom gröna, feministiska, antimilitaristiska och antirasistiska rörelser som aktivister, akademiker, konstnärer…

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THE BIGGEST BARRIERS ARE POLITICAL AND NOT SIMPLY “ECONOMIC” By Jonathan M. Feldman The argument that it is impossible to build low cost housing sounds plausible, using the tools of standard housing economics, but it leaves many questions unanswered. First, the population of Stockholm and other key locations will inevitably expand. One study suggests its…

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Deconstructing Peter Woladarski’s Låt SD vråla för sig själva i svensk politik  in Dagens Nyheter, August 9, 2015: An Analysis of Nine Key Problems Picture 1: SD poster campaign; Picture 2: August 4, 2015 protest against posters By Jonathan Michael Feldman, Posted August 9, 2015 and August 10, 2015 Preface At one point in time,…

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