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The Case for the Green New Deal – Ann Pettifor

December 12, 2019

Ann Pettifor argues that we have the resources to do what we have to do to transition our economies. With more monetary and policy autonomy, countries implement solutions to avoid a climate disaster.

Permanent Record – Edward Snowden

December 11, 2019

In this autobiography, Snowden sheds light on his life. decisions and events that led him to disclose classified information on mass surveillance programs run by the US government.

Red Star Over the Third World – Vijay Prashad

December 8, 2019

Prashad analyzes and describes the effects of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on the Third World. It shows how it inspired generations of workers to dream of a different world.

Abolish ICE – Natascha Elena Uhlmann

December 7, 2019

"We are here because you were there." In Abolish ICE, Uhlmann offers a passionate plea for justice and humanity, detailing the abuses immigrants suffer at the hands of successive US administrations

Ghost Work – Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri

December 7, 2019

Do we know who are the people that moderate content on social media? Who caption, label, and tag to feed the ostensible omnipotence of artificial intelligence?

Carlos Slim – Diego Osorno

December 4, 2019

Carlos Slim: the Power, Money, and Morality of One of the World’s Richest Men, Diego Osorno, Verso, 2019, pp. 311, ISBN 978-1-78663-437-5 As Osorno states, “the powerful create a cloak of silence around them, which in countries like Mexico, is difficult to pierce.” It took Diego Osorno eight years, hundreds

Erdoğan Rising – Hannah Lucinda Smith

December 2, 2019

Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey, Hannah Lucinda Smith, William Collins, 2019, pp. 395, ISBN 978-0-00-830884-1 Speaking in Ankara two weeks ago before heading off to Washington, Erdoğan repeated his oft-cited threat to allow the refugees to come to Europe. He was responding to the rebuke by the EU

We, the Survivors – Tash Aw (fiction)

November 29, 2019

We, the Survivors, Tash Aw, Hamish Hamilton, 2019, pp.326, ISBN 978-0-7352-3855-8 After British Malaya on the brink of Japanese invasion (The Harmony Silk Factory), post-colonial crackdown on leftists in Indonesia and Malaysia (Map of the Invisible World) and bustling Shanghai (Five Star Billionaire), Tash Aw has turned his narrative lens

Food or War – Julian Cribb

November 29, 2019

Food or War, Julian Cribb, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 336, ISBN 978-1-108-71290-3 Paul R. Ehrlich claims to have understood overpopulation intellectually for a long time before the publications of his The Population Bomb in 1968. In the first chapter of the bestseller, Ehrlich recounts how he came to understand

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