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“How Structural Racism Works” – Tricia Rose and Samuel Rosen – recently noted

June 7, 2020 Comments Off

If you are struggling to get your head around how racism works you will probably find it helpful to have a general framework as a guide. This one hour lecture from 2017 features an overview --->> read more -->>

Recently Noted – the chemical industry, government, and personal connections to TCE

March 1, 2020 Comments Off

Back in the early and mid ‘70s both Karen and I worked in various machine shops and other industrial locations. Trichloroethylene (TCE) was used on a daily basis to clean metals parts and other materials. --->> read more -->>

The Great Recycling Con video story – recently noted

December 9, 2019 Comments Off

The New York Times published this video 12/8/2019. Over 90% of “recycleable” plastic materials in the consumer marketplace end up in landfill dumps. A fraud fomented by the plastics and retail marketing industry. Note: There --->> read more -->>

Recently Noted – Overthrow: 100 Years of US Meddling & Regime Change, from Iran to Nicaragua to Hawaii to Cuba

August 22, 2019 Comments Off

We’ve written quite a bit about the US Empire. A key component of this US foreign policy is regime change. Here is a list of the posts here on this topic. Recently Democracy Now! ran --->> read more -->>

Recently Noted – more John Oliver on American justice – or not

April 13, 2019 Comments Off

Once again we return to our comedians for information about what is going on in the world. This time more on the fraud that is our judicial system. Turns out that one of our regular --->> read more -->>

Recently Noted – Robert Reich: Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest – a new video presentation

April 8, 2019 Comments Off

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Evicted – the book and the exhibition

April 3, 2019 Comments Off

We read Evicted – poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond last year in our local library book group. Recently on a visit to Washington DC to the National Building Museum (401 --->> read more -->>

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 --->> 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 --->> read more -->>

Boss Tweed on controlling nominating process

Political Inequality – the other inequality

January 15, 2019 Comments Off

There has been focus on wealth and income inequality for years. It is a pressing problem for more than 80% of the US population. But there is an other inequality, political inequality, that is at --->> read more -->>

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