Recently Note about American Delusions

Curated books, articles, documentaries, podcasts and other material from the current press and academia about American Delusions

Recently Noted – Robert Reich: how we got into this mess and how we get out of it December 29, 2017 Reich’s latest cartoon does a good job of describing the changes in the US economy, weaker on the underlying political… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America by Ed Pilkington December 27, 2017 At a time when the Republicans are transferring income and wealth to the rich and corporations over 40 million Americans… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Recently Noted: World Inequality Report 2018 – findings and policies December 14, 2017 Inequality in wealth and income is a continuing global crisis. The World Inequality Report 2018 defines the problem based on… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Cost of War – $5.6 trillion for US wars 2001-2017 December 12, 2017 Cost of War – $5.6 trillion for US wars 2001-2017 The Watson Institute at Brown University has just released an… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Thanksgiving – a bit of a corrective history telling and turkey adaptation November 22, 2017 Corrective History The NYTimes posted a bit of Turkey Day corrective history: “Most Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong” By MAYA… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – women in prison in the US – more on mass incarceration November 21, 2017 The Prison Policy Initiative has released a new study “Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017”. In a pattern that… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Recently Noted – “What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer” November 7, 2017 The NY Times published an interesting article by Max Fisher and Josh Keller, “What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – “Millions of professional drivers will be replaced…..” – NBC News November 6, 2017 Otto Budweiser beer delivery The shape of jobs in the US and around the world it’s changing rapidly. On 11/5/2017 NBC… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Recently Noted: The Environment under Trump – from National Geographic November 5, 2017 The National Geographic has a running list of the Trump regime’s efforts to save the environment for capitalism. A Running… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – John Oliver and Monopoly Capitalism September 26, 2017 Capitalism, Monopoly, Oligopoly and John Oliver Capitalism does a number of things very well. Concentrating power, wealth and income is… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Recently Noted – 1930s Redlining and Segregation Today August 29, 2017 More evidence that today’s segregated America didn’t just happen out of individual choices and preferences. The 1930s redlining of neighborhoods… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – maternal mortality in America August 18, 2017 The US has the worst maternal mortality rate by far of any developed country in the world. Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Recently Noted – “Making Affirmative Action White Again” August 13, 2017 Ira Katznelson (see my earlier post “Affirmative Action for Whites – began in the 1930s”) wrote a brief opinion piece… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – about racism August 2, 2017 New Trump focus on race reminds us, “All of the liberal praise for civil rights has produced no results over… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Recently Noted – about healthcare July 30, 2017 Recent NYTimes article broadly acknowledges what every other developed country has recognized for decades, healthcare is not a good candidate… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – about the American Empire July 28, 2017 A report about an amendment to the defense budget that would end the 2001 AUMF (Authorization for the Use of… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Recently Noted – about healthcare – international comparisons July 17, 2017 Mirror, Mirror 2017:International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care from Commonwealth Fund. Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – about free market capitalism – is capitalism the real problem? July 14, 2017 Capitalism is driven by a single internal logic that requires the transformation of people and nature into commodities to produce… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Recently Noted – about healthcare June 21, 2017 from the New York Times an article that covers some earlier history of the US healthcare industry. How Did Health… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – free-market capitalism June 17, 2017 Companies must externalize as many costs as possible in free-market capitalism. Without adequate government protections you will end up with… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Recently Noted – in free-market capitalism and US economy June 7, 2017 Giving tax breaks to the rich and corporations has been basic to every Republican since Hoover. President Reagan piled on… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Recently Noted – about racism May 12, 2017 An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices — and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →