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A map of global neoliberalism

How neoliberalism and globalization created the populist revolt in the West

By / 12 Comments / 7 April 2017

Summary: Here is an excerpt from one of the most powerful explanations I have seen for the role neoliberalism and globalization as drivers of populism in the West. Our political future cannot be seen without understanding this. {First of two articles today.} Here is one of the most illuminating essays I have read in a …

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Result of NATO’s expedition to Afghanistan: Worse than a Defeat

By / 8 Comments / 7 January 2018

Summary: NATO’s expedition to Afghanistan returns, having accomplished nothing but adding another chapter to the destruction of that sad region. Now begins the next phase: to induce amnesia, so that we learn as little from it as we did from Vietnam. James Meek reviews four books about the insurgency at home, people fighting the government’s …

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