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Author Archive | Alejandro Bejarano

‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia

Protests across Bolivia began on July 27 for the restoration of democracy.

Electrek Tesla secures a supply agreement with China's biggest lithium

Elon Musk is acting like a neo-Conquistador for South America’s lithium

Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants to build an electric car factory in Brazil. He was supposed to meet Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, in Miami in early March, but he was too busy; instead, Musk will go to Brazil sometime this year.

Monthly Review Essays

“Your Economics Professor is almost Certainly a Charlatan: A review with commentary of ‘My Mis-Education in 3 Graphics’,” a film by Mary Filippo.
by Michael D. Yates
Mary Filippo began in 2004 to audit economics classes in the hope that she could “learn something about globalization. Does it really help people in developing countries? What are its downsides?” She did not learn these things.
Tokyo olympics and Fukushima ‘revival’
by Lau Kin Chi
At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics a young man born on the day of Hiroshima nuclear bombing was selected to be the last torch bearer on the relay, to signify that Japan had stood up from nuclear ruin. In an attempt to replicate the 1964 Olympic theme, the Abe government has constructed the idea of a Fukushima “revival,” a returned to normal. Exposing this illusion is an important cultural war.

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