#Economic

Here are 5 ways we can begin to decolonize our #Thanksgiving. A THREAD 1. Learn and acknowledge whose land you are on. Learn about the history, the people, and the
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I have no idea how I missed this but last year the son of the guy who created the plastic bag came out to explain his dad's intention was to
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A State Department Memo Suggests It’s About to Accuse Prominent Human Rights Groups of “Anti-Semitism” – Mother Joneshttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/state-departments-anti-semitism-human-rights-amnesty-oxfam/ “‘Cert
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The process of "systemic sensemaking" starts after every catastrophe: from Pearl Harbour to Challenger/Columbia to 9/11 to Covid-19. The system holds the knowledge but a crystallizing event solidifies its relevance.
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2008 global financial meltdownMultiple global Swine Flu outbreaksGlobal oil prices crisisAmongst the many global crisis during MMS tenure & we Indians never felt 1% of it when the world was
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All right: A THREAD. A long thread. I had a thought I wanted to add to this piece, but it was a bit of a wonky diversion, so I left
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Looting, specifically in response to police violence, is actually an extremely rational and precise form of protest action because it correctly identifies the most direct way to instigate a confrontation
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In this respect, Trump's version of populism resonates with longstanding themes of the conspiracy-theory right. For years, right-wing sites have thrived on "miracle-cure" ads that position drs. and the medical
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Thread on Iraq invasion of Kuwait 1- My first claim to fame was when I was a grad student doing research work on the role of oil in Iraq's economic
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Liberals in Panic mode after eating popcorns & watching Muslin hatred from the balcony. They see the fire reaching their ivory towers. But I don’t see the Coward Psychopath change
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Question to FOA The rest of the world could have just "eaten" their loss, just as creditors always do when a debtor goes bankrupt, and accepted no more US dollars
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Something I've been thinking a lot about recently: how best do I support my students during a pandemic (and national lockdown, and global economic collapse, and...)?Ask A Manager has good
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This new report from @nature_org is so wrong on SO many levels: logically, morally, economically, politically, ecologically, etc. So sad that @nature_org is willfully and deliberately speeding up the destruction
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Transportation (LIGHT RAIL) thread: Cincinnati needs BOLD leadership to tackle our legacy of disinvestment in transportation! To be a Great American city, we must lead like one. “Make no little
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@ElkeBabiuk reminded me of this video. Louisiana has the dubious privilege of being the worst place to live in the US according to their own rating system.If you want to
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1. THREAD: Posting a piece I co-authored in 2019 with @anacidcommie in @timeshighereducation about the grad student mental health crisis. Below, I review the argument and situate it in context
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