#Periphery

1) Thread: The biggest blind spot of the Democratic Party. Even amongst the anti-monopoly segment of the party, most Democrats don’t seem to understand the significance of the monopoly problem.
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There seems to be an attempt to head off the waxing interest in anti-imperialism by enfolding that discussion into toothless, confusing, or confused discussions of militarism and (unfortunately) declawed versions
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1983, a scholar in the Netherlands, discussing the way the world capitalism damages third world ecology disproportionately, and such damage was immanent to the global capitalist system
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Working for The New York Times.https://twitter.com/historyofarmani/status/1290484329580130306 I became a journalist because I wanted to tell stories that held truth to power, that punched up not down, that provided people with
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On the subject of Christmas and astronomy: Copernicus and his successors offended theologians with evidence that the Earth was not at the center of the solar system…or the galaxy, or
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PSA:When someone confides in you their psychiatric diagnosis ie: Clinical Depression, PTSD, Anxiety Disorder, Schizophrenia etal; it is NOT an invitation for you to try to FIX them. You CANNOT
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As India observes a spectacular solar eclipse, and TV channels can’t seem to talk beyond religion and astrology, lets remember the biggest scientific breakthrough linked to a solar eclipse.Proving Einstein’s
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In last few weeks I see so many non-Americans losing their mind over the Supreme Court or voter suppression in Pennsylvania. And I wonder how many of them actually know
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Last week, the ECB started to publish the breakdown of Minimum Reserve Requirements for banks (MRR), which was lacking in the Eurosystem balance sheet. It matters because we can now
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It is a massive tragedy that most Americans do not know (and have been purposely educated to not know) that the rollback of actually-existing socialism and razing of third world
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The most insidious invention of Trumpism was to move orthodoxy from the Republican Party to unceasing support for Trump, meaning anyone who stepped out of line or didn’t support his
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Good review of China’s local government debt problem. Economists Yin Jianfeng & Wang Jiangjiang suggest it could turn into a “European-style” debt crisis as periphery gets into deeper trouble (though
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No, lol!No one owes anyone shit, and that’s a good thing! Guilt tripping ppl into wanting to talk to others isnt a nice thing to do, and ppl should b
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Leftist revolutionary action threatens the system of corporate private property and is met with the full brunt of the police state. Rightist reactionary action – no matter how bigoted, violent,
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THREAD FOR CLARITY 1-The Fake Sussex title debateSocial climbers like Piers Morgan who spent their entire lives in the periphery of Aristocrats hoping for a glance or smile from them,
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Some random thoughts on the US election today:I hope I don't insult my American friends when I say that, while the world's interest (obsession even) with US politics is testament
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