From Sunday and Monday’s Files

The Nonsense of ‘Measuring’ Intelligence

Genes and the Holy G: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Dark Cultural History of IQ and Why We Can’t Measure Intelligence

Radical Hope & Resilience

Radical Hope: Philosopher Jonathan Lear on the Paradoxical Seedbed of Courage and Cultural Resilience

Cognition As Technology – http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/index.html

Empirical & Qualitative Elements of Risk

The Probability Distribution of the Future

Black Panthers’ Targeting By Cops – http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/police-kill-two-members-of-the-black-panther-party

Participatory Budgeting Analysis

Real Power? Real Money?

Charter Consequences

Exploring the consequences of charter school expansion in U.S. cities

More Witch Hunting Deconstruction, History – http://www.salon.com/2016/12/04/academic-witch-hunts-are-back-the-new-mccarthyism-a-sign-of-the-stupidity-of-the-post-truth-era/

Municipalist Movements – http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/are_americans_ready_for_a_municipalist_movement_20161202

Monopoly Media Evaluations – http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/12/04/are-us-corporate-media-businesses-independent/

A Conspiracy Thinking Critique – http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_books/article/7080

Giving Democracy A Chance – http://www.spiked-online.com/spiked-review/article/the-case-for-democracy/19047

A Frank Ramsey Biography Review – http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/22/frank-ramsey-great-intellects/

A Prescient Monograph’s Resuscitation – http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/books/richard-rortys-1998-book-suggested-election-2016-was-coming.html

Learning From Cuba – http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-World-Must-Learn-From-Cuba-20161203-0019.html

A Canticle: Soy Fidel! – http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/I-Am-Fidel-Cubas-Youth-Deepen-Commitment-to-Revolution-20161204-0009.html

Dignity & the Minimum Wage – http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/dignity-4

Keith Ellison’s Full Israel Presentation – http://www.investigativeproject.org/5713/full-audio-of-keith-ellison-remarks-at-esam#

http://forward.com/opinion/356028/revealed-the-full-keith-ellison-tape-shows-he-was-mostly-praising-israel-no/

U.S. Military Mayhem – http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38609-the-anatomy-of-us-military-policy-an-interview-with-andrew-bacevich

Memorializing Fred Hampton – http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38611-the-assassination-of-fred-hampton-47-years-later

Joan Didion on Karmic Payback – http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/308540-clinton-opponents-vow-to-continue-their-pursuit

Reified Ideologies That ‘Explain’ Fascism – http://www.salon.com/2016/12/04/the-moral-foundations-of-fascism-warring-psychological-theories-struggle-to-make-sense-of-hitler-mussolini-and-you-know-who/

White Supremacy’s Superiority Inferiority Complex – http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/11/white-supremacy-racial-inferiority-complex-161129104031285.html

A Rutherford.org John Lennon Essay – http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f6eb78f457b7b82887b643445&id=c1b5fc8ef2&e=798f08cf09

Corporate Double-Dealing Hypocrisy & ‘Fake News’ – http://medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=833:fake-news-about-fake-news-the-media-performance-pyramid&catid=54:alerts-2016&Itemid=248

ReDemoPubliCratiCan Duopoly Under Scrutiny – http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-duopoly-party-system-central-to-understanding-power-and-domination/5560126

A Post-Truth Disquisition – https://www.brookings.edu/essay/covering-politics-in-a-post-truth-america/

Finland’s Lessons For Gringo Education Bureaucrats – http://hechingerreport.org/finland-can-teach-betsy-devos-thing-two-valuing-teachers-school-choice-thats-real/

A BDS Victory

Under BDS Pressure, G4S Ends Most Illegal Business with Israel

Permalancer Plight – http://www.citylab.com/work/2016/12/the-pain-of-the-permalancer/509495/

ESPN’s Censorship of Pro-Castro Athletes – http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/ESPNs-First-Take-at-Counterrevolution-20161205-0010.html

Monopoly Complicity in Blacklisting – http://www.activistpost.com/2016/12/media-complicity-key-blacklisting-websites.html

PCR’s Latest Take on Autocracy – http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/12/05/the-tide-is-turning-against-the-oligarchs-paul-craig-roberts/

A Nuremberg Documentary’s Contemporary Lessons – http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/12/05/nure-d05.html

A Thorough Deconstruction of Plekhanov – http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/12/05/plek-d05.html

Criminalizing the Poor’s Abortion Attempts – http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/12/05/abor-d05.html

Monopoly Finance, Trump, & Modi – https://theconversation.com/trump-and-modi-birds-of-the-same-feather-but-with-different-world-views-69090

‘Fake News,’ PR, & Propaganda, Historically – http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/04/opinion/all-the-fake-news-that-was-fit-to-print.html

A Labor Theory of Value Intro & Overview

Labour Theory Of Value: A Primer

Wa-Po’s Snowden Controversy – http://www.editorandpublisher.com/feature/how-the-washington-posts-statement-on-edward-snowden-sparked-controversy-and-conversation-within-the-media/

The Error of Teaching ‘Critical Thinking’ – https://aeon.co/ideas/why-schools-should-not-teach-general-critical-thinking-skills

Attacking Student Media  – http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us/kentucky-student-journalism-free-speech.html

https://www.poynter.org/2016/the-student-press-is-under-threat/441025/

Three From Naked Capitalism on ‘Fake News’ Fight & Possible Litigation

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/propornots-grandiose-fabrications.html

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/we-launch-propornot-org-to-identify-inept-propagandists-and-school-the-washington-post.html

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/12/we-demand-that-the-washington-post-retract-its-propaganda-story-defaming-naked-capitalism-and-other-sites-and-issue-an-apology.html

A New Finding Dead Websites Feature – https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/02/theres-a-powerful-new-way-to-dig-up-dead-websites/

Incredible German Thinker – https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/12/02/theres-a-powerful-new-way-to-dig-up-dead-websites/?utm_term=.823a2c195c45

Incredible German Thinker – https://jhiblog.org/2016/12/05/indefatigable-polyphony-or-alexander-kluges-narration-in-complete-thoughts/

Writing’s Restless Quest For Artistry – http://lithub.com/from-hemingway-to-kathy-acker-making-art-from-the-outside/

Recalling Economics’ Radical Roots – http://www.chronicle.com/article/When-Economics-Was-Radical/238539

Kissinger’s Overarching Hegemony & Its Meaning – https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/henry-kissinger-grandin-ferguson-chomsky/

Snowden on Petraeus

Snowden blasts US “two-tiered system of justice”. General Petraeus “disclosed more highly classified” information

How White Are Jews? – http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/are-jews-white/509453/

Obama’s Newest Warmaking Report – https://www.justsecurity.org/35239/president-obamas-report-legal-policy-frameworks-guiding-united-states-military-force-related-national-security-operations/

GMO’s Continuing Misrepresentations – http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38615-we-ve-been-sold-a-lie-for-two-decades-about-genetically-engineered-foods

Robots’ Impacts on Jobs & More – http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/05/what-robots-are-doing-middle-class

Glenn Greenwald on Smearing Ellison – https://theintercept.com/2016/12/04/the-smear-campaign-against-keith-ellison-is-repugnant-but-reveals-much-about-washington/

DoD’s Imperial Rule Plans – http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/03/the-pentagons-2015-strategy-for-ruling-the-world/

Viewing Markets As Holy – http://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/economics/follow-the-money

Chemotherapy’s History – http://wakingtimesmedia.com/true-history-chemotherapy-pharmaceutical-monopoly/