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by baursak 9y ago
Not a print biweekly, but highly recommend http://fair.org/ as a complement to things like Economist or even NYT.
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by baursak 9y ago
It's not just about zeroes in the bank account. Ultimately it's about power and power relations.
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by baursak 9y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/us/politics/trump-nuclear...
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by baursak 9y ago
That was but one example, there are plenty from before Ukrainian conflict started, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_missile_defense_... Imagine US reaction if Putin tried to set up a "missile defen
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by baursak 9y ago
> Putin was set on world domination I guess this is one of examples of Putin's quest for world domination, right? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/nato-deploys-troops-p...
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by baursak 9y ago
> But when you argue about a topic that affects the security of the US, there really is no such thing as "moral high ground". So all your concerns boil down to us-vs-them tribalism?
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by baursak 9y ago
Yeah, but you already got hundreds of thousands individuals here in H-1 status, and thousands more wanting to join them, for lack of any other options. Then what?
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by baursak 9y ago
> For the tens of millions who it intentionally starved to death, worked to death in the gulag, or just summarily murdered Tens of millions? Intentionally starved? Citations needed, to say the least.
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by baursak 9y ago
What do you guys think of this short read? http://www.artbrock.com/blog/those-kids-and-their-darn-gadge...
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by baursak 9y ago
Anarchism is a subset of communism. In the 20th century, for obvious reasons, both the Soviet and American propaganda machines sought to associate "communism" with authoritarian collectivism, when in reality it's a much wider
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by baursak 9y ago
Questioning the authority is by no means sociopathic.
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by baursak 9y ago
Or, with enough automation, the world would be making leaps of progress in a variety of areas of human interest, because everybody is pursuing their true interests.
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by baursak 9y ago
From one of the links: "For example, in the CES a person working two part-time jobs of 20 hours a week is counted as having two 20-hour jobs, but in the CPS, the same individual is counted as one worker working 40 hours." So both
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by baursak 9y ago
Here's a quicker, less dry article about it: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/04/yasha-levine-recover...
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by baursak 9y ago
Seems like an outdated report. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/06/30/ordos-ch...
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by baursak 9y ago
Counterpoint: plenty of clothes shoppers in any local Goodwill.
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by baursak 9y ago
Like I said, citation needed. There are still countries in the Americas with either majority or very significant indigenous populations. Were they immune somehow?
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by baursak 9y ago
> Russia had lots of natural advantages, especially after winning WW2 What? How is having all your industrial infrastructure destroyed and 20 million of young, able-bodied males killed an advantage?
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by baursak 9y ago
Citation needed. The estimate of pre-Columbian population itself is highly debated, I fail to see how you can so confidently state a number that must be derived from that estimate.
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by baursak 9y ago
A good piece of perspective on this -- it's what many civilians feel day in day out in places like Pakistan when killer drones are flying over.
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by baursak 9y ago
India's wealth gap is absolutely jarring. There are beautiful fenced mansions with manicured lawns and just outside the fence homeless kids setting up fires for the night.
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by baursak 9y ago
> Anyone living in the West who looks down on certain US politicians for their anti-immigrant sentiments but is fine with China's state enforced ethnic nationalism ... is probably not a significant amount of people
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by baursak 9y ago
Looks like you're not very familiar with it. Again, I highly recommend taking a close look and see if any of your questions are already answered/addressed.
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by baursak 9y ago
This is the view from MMT perspective. I highly recommend looking into it, e.g. this lecture is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1SMjeuyF-Y Treatment of debt is at around minute 54.
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by baursak 9y ago
National debt is simply national savings. "Paying off" national debt means taking away one of the most popular, liquid, income producing asset from people and corporations. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10&#x2F
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by baursak 9y ago
Not in Saudi. In Saudi it's pretty much a single "normal" form of Islam, Wahabbi. Same one that Al Qaeda and ISIS adhere to, except Saudis are "friends".
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by baursak 9y ago
That's called a delusional software developer bubble. Try this at a minimum wage job or pretty much anything outside of IT.
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by baursak 9y ago
It's not modern society that sucks, it's our version of modern society that sucks. If you're into essays, check this one out: http://julesboykoff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Boykoff_L...
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by baursak 9y ago
There seems to be quite a contrast between how Cuba and Puerto Rico recovered from hurricanes this season.
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by baursak 9y ago
Do you have parents who lived in the Soviet Union?

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