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. 
 
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
 
 
“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


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 - 

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/

Society Burning: Tactical Assessment report by The Social Media Intelligence Unit, a project of civil society organisation Alliance For Europe established in early 2019. The “Society Burning: Tactical Assessment” states organised actors are using social media to paint a picture of “Marxist subversion of the American dream” by the protest group in order to generate support for the re-election campaign of US President Donald Trump. Society Burning: Tactical Assessment - SMIU EU


The Military has a hate group problem but it doesn’t know how bad it is.  2021 article in Politico. The military has a hate group problem. But it doesn't know how bad it's gotten. - POLITICO

How we got stuck: The origins of hierarchy and inequality” -  thoughtful explanation of the origins of inequality and hierarchy.   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mila.12420

Weaponized”. Deep dive into how Russia amplifies right-wing influence campaigns using social media.  https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/russia-amplifies-right-wing-influence?r=1aupz

Here’s the Civil War history they didn’t want you to know”.  Washington Post 2023 article about Southerners who fought for the Union in the Civil War and why that history was hidden for more than 100 years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/howell-raines-alabama-civil-war-history/