March 2019 – American Delusions

Recently Noted – Sugar In Our Diet – the John Oliver Analysis

March 18, 2019 Comments Off

In our continuing effort to find varied sources to illustrate the power of marketing and the costs of unregulated capitalism we return to John Oliver’s show Last Week Tonight for his segment on sugar in food. The food industry continues to put sugar in nearly every processed food and fights --->> read more -->>

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Adult Learning Models

March 14, 2019 3

If one is interested in helping people develop new understandings of how their society works the question of how adults learn and engage is critical. Clearly standard pedagogical approaches are inappropriate because our readers are adults not the ages typical for K-12 and college instruction. Further, standard pedagogy is top-down --->> read more -->>

From NYTimes - Bangladeshi women on Internaitonal Women’s Day

The State of Women around the World – International Women’s Day 3/8/2019

March 8, 2019 Comments Off

Discrimination Against Women Continues – Lots of Outright Oppression Too In the NYTimes today is an article, “Why International Women’s Day Isn’t Going Away – For all the progress women have made, they are still a long way from true equality.” by Iliana Magra. Here are a few data points from --->> read more -->>

The Monopolization of America video by Robert Reich

Recently Noted – Robert Reich video ”The Monopolization of America”

March 7, 2019 1

We have written earlier (for example our article The Monopolization of America) about the increasing concentration of market power In the hands of just a few corporations. This is a phenomenon occurring throughout the US economy (really more broadly across the globe). Here is an 11 minute review of --->> read more -->>