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Complexity - List

I maintain a web library with more than 2000 links and I add to it regularly. One section focuses on process improvement, innovation, visualization, etc. This is a link to a concept map that shows this section of the library.

http://tinyurl.com/TMILibrary-Innovation-etc

I've been doing a Google search to find sites mapping global complexity and rather than add more individual links to the web library, I'm creating a list here, which I'll add as a single link in the web library.

A second list and more comprehensive list, of similar articles - here on DropBox

Globe of Economic Complexity - http://globe.cid.harvard.edu/?mode=gridSphere&id=null

Atlas of Economic Complexity - http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/

How corporations and government are learning everything about you - http://crackedlabs.org/en/corporate-surveillance - Well organized article with useful visualizations.

“One Percent” documentary video - an inner look at the wealth gap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK35cxb3rkA&feature=youtu.be

Growth of Far-Right, Populist Wave, enabled by social media - read

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-facebook-elections

“How colonial violence came home in WW1” https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/10/how-colonial-violence-came-home-the-ugly-truth-of-the-first-world-war

“Massacres in US History” - Zinn Educational Project - https://www.zinnedproject.org/collection/massacres-us/

“What White Supremacists Know - The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.” https://bostonreview.net/race/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-what-white-supremacists-know

MappingforJustice blog article with links to additional articles about income inequality, segregation, etc.. https://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2016/11/income-inequality-in-cities-using-esri.html

The Roots of Karl Marx’s Anti Colonialism - https://jacobinmag.com/2019/01/karl-marx-anti-colonialism-ernest-jones?fbclid=IwAR1iApPOTXsUlNB8uQDD0-WQ5N2Vzz9IsJ8ja-XS8ojV0P5pkrAiW6IUsh8

Hypernormalization Documentary - Here’s Wikipedia definition: “HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on the complex "real world" and built a simpler "fake world" run by corporations and kept stable by politicians. “ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

. View and add comments using Vialogues - https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/48167

. Here’s an interview with Adam Curtis, in The Economist. Annotated by Terry Elliott, from my Connected Learning network. https://www.diigo.com/annotated/4953c6d2e782c5cfe9a99c74af01b82c

Legacy of Racism, White Supremacy and State Tax Policy. - interesting Twitter thread from 2018: https://twitter.com/MikeDMitchell2/status/1063478187743735808?s=20

Wealth Inequality and the Fallacies of Impact Investing (article) -https://medium.com/balle/wealth-inequality-and-the-fallacies-of-impact-investing-eea902924309

Bill Gates Says that Poverty is Decreasing, and He Couldn’t Be More Wrong. This article includes a graphic by Max Roser of Our World in Data , showing a decline in poverty over past 200 years, which has been widely shared on the Internet. The author debunks the graphic and makes a case that poverty is worse today than 40 years ago. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-gates-davos-global-poverty-infographic-neoliberal

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Interview with Anand Giridharadas, an author and professor, whose book "Winners Take All" is a scathing critique of the way elites treat philanthropy. https://www.businessinsider.com/anand-giridharadas-billionaires-inequality-interview-2019-1

The Corporate Plan to Groom US Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools -

The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools

Training first-world children for a third-world life

www.ineteconomics.org

The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools • www.ineteconomics.org

Alternative Facts. The Lies of Executive Order 9066. In 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of over 120,000 people of Japanese descent, many of them citizens, from the West Coast. This article, and documentary video, focus on the lies that led to this, and the parallels to 2019. http://blogwalker.edublogs.org/2019/02/19/alternative-facts-the-lies-of-executive-order-9066/

​​Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World