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Check out our newest interview with foreign policy expert Ian @ianbremmer tuftspostscript.com/2015/09/… x.com/ianbremmer/status/6500…

ian bremmer
@ianbremmer
2 Oct 2015
Political risk is not politics; it's political science. | My conversation with @aryadita from @TuftsPostScript. bit.ly/1QPCuhC
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"The largest country in the European Union is unable to describe and unite its own people through displays of patriotism" - Constantin Weiss
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McGill's Dagney writes on the "extreme self-righteousness" of student activists. Have you read the article? Agree or Disagree? Let us know!
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We present to you our Spring Edition Cover!! Issues will be available across campus starting Friday. Grab a copy!
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End of an enthralling talk. Thank you @vijayprashad.
On criticisms against Facebook: "Facebook did not disarticulate you. You were already disarticulated!"
On his new book on Palestine: "We want to put on the table the fact that the Palestinian right to exist is legitimate", and "so is Israel's"
On student activism: "It doesn't mean that all those high value gestures will lead to support form above. But who wants support from above?"
First question: what do you make of communist movements, like the Zapatista movement, all over the world?
On economic power: "those whose tentacles stretch over continents exercise power over industry"
On night of Obama's first Presidential success: "That night, multiculturalism ended." "What did not, of course, was racism"
On success of Asian migrants: "It was state selection, and not natural selection"
On MLK and the "disposable class": "King pointedly remarked that the civil rights movement's changes were only surface changes"
The neoliberal approach to social unrest: "It is far more rational to go to war than to pursue peace"
"Keynesianism does not recognize the tendency of capital to displace humans for machines", which deepens inequality
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The Keynesianism of finance: "disbursement of public money into banks for their rescue"
Post-Great Recession: "The US gov. used its funds to maintain liquidity in the banks and financial markets"--not a Keynesian approach
Cites Greek Finance Minister: "the danger of a coup these days comes not from a tank but from a bank"
And now on monetary policy: "it relies on the assumption that the presence of capital will encourage economic activity"
The talk is hosted by the Consortium of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora @Colonialism_ST. And we begin...
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