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[AI summary] The text presents a detailed critique of the arguments made by scholars like Daniel Moynihan and Charles Murray, who have attributed poverty and dysfunction among certain racial and ethnic groups in the United States to cultural factors. The author challenges these views by highlighting the diversity and complexity of African and African diasporic societies, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of Latin American and Mexican-American communities. The author argues that these groups cannot be characterized as uniformly collectivist, authoritarian, or lacking in individual ambition, and that such portrayals are based on flawed and often racist assumptions. The critique extends to the broader concept of 'cultural difference' as a way to e...
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23 years after the Unabomber, a.k.a. Ted Kaczynski who sent mail bombs to scientists, executives, and computer experts beginning in 1978, committed his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, he's become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.
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As an intended outcome of neoliberal doctrine and a natural stage of capitalist development, global financialization constructs a borderless nexus of power in which debt and austerity fuels a cultural, political and economic landscape bound to enduring structures of domination, and creates unprecedented wealth through the accumulation of suffering. ***** According to economist Richard Wolff,
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Recently I had a short period in between projects. During that time I had wonderful conversations with some peers. Every time I felt so uplifted and wished I took the time to do that more often. I also felt like I...
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