#NormalizeWetAssPussy, or How Art Changes Culture
It’s 2020 and like everyone else, I want to talk about Wet Ass Pussy. But, since I don’t have a pussy myself, I just wanted to read some feedback on how the song may affect our culture.
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My Experience Running for County Board as a Democrat
It is apparent that the Democratic Party machine does not care to run candidates that actually care about policy.
Warren Mosler’s Crisis Management Proposal
These were my proposals back in March. Now, with 20-20 hindsight, and some 8 months on, seems I wouldn’t change a thing…
Time We Demand Change
Push policies. Be loud. Be uncompromising. Be belligerent. Be in their faces. Be what you need to be to get this done.
Exploitation Entrepreneurialism
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s Race for Profit is an essential read not just for anyone interested in racism, housing segregation and post-Civil Rights era racial politics, but for anyone interested in understanding the American economy. It is impossible to understand contracts, property deeds, government guarantees, homeowner’s associations, or lending without knowing how each of these building blocks of the market can be used for race-based exploitation.
Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here’s why
Steve Keen, UCL While climate scientists warn that climate change could be catastrophic, economists such as 2018 Nobel prize winner William Nordhaus assert that it will be nowhere near as damaging. In a 2018 paper published after he was awarded the prize, Nordhaus claimed that 3°C of warming would reduce global GDP by just 2.1%, …
Africa’s Pandemic Response Calls for Reclaiming Economic and Monetary Sovereignty: An Open Letter
The African Economic and Monetary Sovereignty initiative began almost three years ago in preparation for the first conference on The Quest for Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa, which was held in Tunis (November 6-9, 2019). An edited volume from the conference will be published by Pluto Press (2021), and a second edition of the conference will take …
The Global Green New Deal and an Open Letter on African Economic & Monetary Sovereignty
September 16, 2020, 9pm EDT/6pm PDT This month we welcome Fadhel Kaboub for a return appearance! Fadhel has that rare ability to talk about MMT in language engaging to newcomers and oldtimers alike. This month he turns the MMT lens toward the developing world, discussing the Green New Deal in the context of the global …
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