Link to an article by Sand Avidar-Walzer:
Links
My Own Mag
Link to RealityStudio’s archive of issues of Jeff Nuttall’s independent magazine:
Ty Moore & Patrick Ayers – The Disastrous Failure of Lesser Evilism
Link to an article by Ty Moore & Patrick Ayers:
Critterjams – Scott Adams and Donald Trump
Link to an article on Critterjams:
Michael Hudson – Review of Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice
Link to a review by Michael Hudson of James K Galbraith‘s book Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016):
“Review of James Galbraith, Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice (2016)”
Select quote:
“At first glance the repeated ‘failure’ of austerity prescriptions to ‘help economies recover’ seems to be insanity – defined as doing the same thing again and again, hoping that the result may be different. But what if the financial planners are not insane? What if they simply seek professional success by rationalizing politics favored by the vested interests that employ them, headed by the IMF, central bankers and the policy think tanks and business schools they sponsor? The effects of pro-creditor policies have become so constant over so many decades that it now must be seen as deliberate, not a mistake that can be fixed by pointing out a more realistic body of economics (which already was available in the 1920s).”
This is reminiscent of a quote frequently attributed to Donald Berwick (among others): “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” In the economic context, this notion is also explored further in Economists and the Powerful (2012).
Robert Kuttner – Hidden Injuries of Class, Race, and Culture
Link to an omnibus book review by Robert Kuttner:
“Hidden Injuries of Class, Race, and Culture”
Bonus links: “What Drives Trump Supporters?: Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild on Anger & Mourning of the Right” and “I Spent 5 Years With Some of Trump’s Biggest Fans. Here’s What They Won’t Tell You.” and “Rural Voting from Group Identity Resentment of Other Groups Not Ideology” and “Janesville: Microcosm of the Heartland Rustbelt” (but see “On the Differences of Comedy in the Time of Alt Right Transgression” — essentially rejecting the core premise of Hochschild’s affective sociology as an infantalization)
F. William Engdahl – Washington Tries to Break BRICS
Link to an article by F. William Engdahl:
Cathy O’Neil – Welcome to the Black Box
Link to an interview with Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (2016):
Bonus links: “Big Data Isn’t Just Watching You—It’s Making You Poorer” and “Playing Algorithm’n Blues” and “Capitalism vs. Privacy”
Jace Clayton – The Link Between Whitney Houston and the Rise of Auto-Tune in North Africa
Link to an excerpt from the book Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture (2016) by Jace Clayton (A/K/A DJ/rupture):
“The Link Between Whitney Houston and the Rise of Auto-Tune in North Africa”
Dirk Bezemer & Michael Hudson – Finance Is Not the Economy
Link to an article by Dirk Bezemer & Michael Hudson: