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u/censorinus · 1 pointr/worldpolitics

Here's info from his book:

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The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward nationalism and “America first” unilateralism in foreign policy will not make America great. Instead, it represents the abdication of our responsibilities in the face of severe environmental threats, political upheaval, mass migration, and other global challenges.

In this incisive and forceful book, Jeffrey D. Sachs provides the blueprint for a new foreign policy that embraces global cooperation, international law, and aspirations for worldwide prosperity―not nationalism and gauzy dreams of past glory. He argues that America’s approach to the world must shift from military might and wars of choice to a commitment to shared objectives of sustainable development. Our pursuit of primacy has embroiled us in unwise and unwinnable wars, and it is time to shift from making war to making peace and time to embrace the opportunities that international cooperation offers. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the “America first” mindset and the possibilities for a new way forward, proposing timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth, reconfigure the United Nations for the twenty-first century, and build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.

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And book link at Amazon:

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https://www.amazon.com/New-Foreign-Policy-American-Exceptionalism/dp/023118848X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2XRWKZEP4WAGB&keywords=a+new+foreign+policy+beyond+american+exceptionalism&qid=1568904795&s=gateway&sprefix=a+new+for%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-2

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Also about Jeffrey Sachs:

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About Jeffrey D. Sachs


Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty, and the battle against human-induced climate change. He is Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, and an SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General, for Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and Antonio Guterres (2017-18).


Professor Sachs was the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He was twice named among Time magazine's 100 most influential world leaders and has received 28 honorary degrees. The New York Times called Sachs "probably the most important economist in the world," and Time magazine called Sachs "the world's best-known economist." A survey by The Economist ranked Sachs as among the three most influential living economists.


Professor Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is University Professor at Columbia University, the university's highest academic rank. Sachs was Director of the Earth Institute from 2002 to 2016.


Sachs has authored and edited numerous books, including three New York Times bestsellers, The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). Other books include To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace (2013), The Age of Sustainable Development (2015), Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair & Sustainable (2017), and most recently A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018).


Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, most recently as the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard.

u/Magikarpeles · 1 pointr/worldpolitics

Not sure what you are saying - but the evidence overwhelmingly suggests differences between groups. You can see this in groups of biracial babies quite clearly, they regress to the mean of the parents. For example, a half Asian (avg IQ 110) and half Caucasian (100) baby will on average have an IQ of 105. Strong evidence for both the genetic determination of IQ, as well as racial differences in IQ. It also shows that these differences will decline as humans continue to intermingle, which is good news (IMO).

This book by preeminent human intelligence scientist Ian Deary has a great summary of the research

u/SomeoneWorse · 0 pointsr/worldpolitics

You haven't posted a single source for any of your claims yet here we are. Good luck in your liberal bubble. Best stay in r/politics next time kiddo.

" In this controversial National Bestseller, the former CEO of NPR sets out for conservative America wondering why these people are so wrong about everything. It turns out, they aren’t. "

u/[deleted] · -2 pointsr/worldpolitics

>ME: "Call me when "Jewishness" is a "faith".
YOU: "Judaism is a religion. Fool."
ME: "List of Jewish Atheists and agnostics"
YOU: "people who were born into the Jewish religion"
Aren't semantic games FUN???

http://www.amazon.com/The-Oxford-Dictionary-World-Religions/dp/0192139657

You apparently need this in order to understand that Judaism is a religious tradition as well as a cultural tradition. No one is ethnically Jewish. You can be ethnically Hebrew, however. Which is what Jews are. For example, I have a friend whose family is Lutheran, but they trace their ethnicity to the area of modern Israel. They call themselves ethnically Hebrew, not ethnically Jewish. Because Judaism is a religious tradition and an associated cultural tradition, informed by the traditions of the faith.

Let's take Daniel Radcliffe as an example. His father is Protestant, his mother is Jewish. He is, according to Halakha, religiously Jewish. See, Halakha doesn't refer to ethnicity. It is religious law. I appreciate you making my point for me, that Judaism is, in fact, a religion.

You cited religious law to try to prove Judaism isn't a religion. I'm not even mad. That's amazing. You disproved nothing that I said. Specifically that Judaism is a religion. You provided no evidence of anything supporting that contention. "Jewishness", or Jewish culture, is historically tied to Jewish religious traditions. This is undeniable.

Atheism and agnosticism are informed life choices made after thorough examination of facts. People choose not to practice a faith because they do not believe a god exists. This is independent of the fact that halakhic law still considers someone born to a Jewish mother to be religiously Jewish.

Goodnight, shithead.

u/errdayimshuffln · 4 pointsr/worldpolitics

Seeing some of your responses gives me the impression that you have the intention to argue the case that the violent acts against non-believers for the sole fact that they are not believers is supported by the Quran. It is in fact not supported. I recommend that you get a copy of The Study Quran or Mohammad Asad's The Message of the Quran and look up those verses and read the commentary by the translators and scholars on each of those verse. And if you have doubts on the expertise of the scholars then please read the preludes/prefaces in these texts. If you are wanting a discussion in good faith and on the basis of having read the Quran, then I believe the knowledge therein is a prerequisite.

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This Wikipedia article is a start I guess

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>I would argue that according to the Quran the radical Muslims are the ones actually living out their religion!

So amazing how all of a sudden in the last decade, people in the west are claiming this. This is completely and utterly false; a conclusion that only one who entertains only the ideas of "experts" like Robert Spencer and the like. It's not Islam that keeps arguing for the idea of an inevitable "clash of civilizations" which is essentially a self-fullfilling prophecy.

u/newsens · 2 pointsr/worldpolitics

This book is Milgram′s vivid and persuasive explanation of his methods.

The book describes experiments which show clearly how Americans were no different to the Nazis when it came to taking orders.

And his conclusion rings as loud and clear today as it did in 1972, when he wrote the book, that no one can be free unless they are prepared to be disobedient to authority.

u/clearingtheagenda · 6 pointsr/worldpolitics

This is a great book on one way to get there. In fact this author thinks it is inevitable. His solution more a binational state with both a Hebrew and an Arabic secular identity (note: I didn't say Jewish and Islamic.)

http://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Republic-Secular-Democracy-Enterprise/dp/0151014523

u/thirdfounder · 46 pointsr/worldpolitics

It's going to take a deep culture change.

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/21/11451378/smug-american-liberalism

This piece in Vox is hardly the only such commentary, but that it comes from within the blue bubble is hopeful. We need to ditch John Oliver, Samantha Bee, and the smug style of American liberalism pronto. It's alienating, counterproductive, and pathetic. (Not to mention frequently unfunny.) It did much to elect Trump.

We need instead to listen to middle America for once -- not ridicule, but listen. Hear what Michael Moore was saying these last few months. Read the research of Dr. Kathy Cramer.

https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Resentment-Consciousness-Wisconsin-American/dp/022634911X

These are good people struggling and in need of help. We -- supposedly the working man's party -- spent years subjecting them to the smug treatment, ignored their issues. And so they voted en masse for the only candidate who recognized their crisis.

u/APairofDocks · 3 pointsr/worldpolitics

Uh, the book review you cited doesn't sound anything at all like the Amazon summary of the same book.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226296652/ref=ed_oe_h/102-9194786-6925713

As for your retarded commentary about Jews in Russia, the majority of Russian Jews OPPOSED Zionism

u/Some_guy_called_andy · 3 pointsr/worldpolitics

I was going to say "this happened again!?" But then saw that this article was from 2006. If you want to read a book about this, as well as the general mess that their platoon went through, read The Black Hearts.

u/freshthrowaway1138 · 2 pointsr/worldpolitics

How about you go read a history book or a book on geopolitics or psychology. This violence has little to do with Islam and a whole lot to do with other things. Heck, go listen to Osama bin Laden's speeches for the political causes, or here's a CIA analyst who's book was recommended by ObL.

u/mexicodoug · 4 pointsr/worldpolitics

Pilger is also one of the finest investigative journalists of the last fifty years. I highly recommend Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs, edited by Pilger and including investigative work he himself did proving US/British collusion in supporting the brutal Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot in Cambodia.

u/schwejk · 1 pointr/worldpolitics

Broadly speaking, this is coming down to how much one trusts official narrative. I believe the reason we hear these arguments repeated throughout history is because our government(s) are lying, self-interested scumbags who know they have to sell acts of mass violence and military interference on a ticket of moral concern or global policing. You believe the reason we hear these arguments repeated so much is evidence that they're true and they work. Tough for either one of us to persuade the other here.

What I would suggest, if you're not already aware of it, is a book by Mark Curtis called "Unpeople" (any book by Curtis actually). Curtis researches the official record meticulously and pulls out material from declassified (or occasionally leaked) documents, memos, minutes etc. and contrasts them with what the government was peddling us at the time. The picture and pattern that emerges is not just a huge disconnect between the internal and public narrative, but how regularly the same phrases and motivations are regurgitated for selling the idea to the public while the private, official record makes barely passing mention of things such as "humanitarian concern" or "democracy" or "equal rights". (Quite the opposite, at times). It's a brutal and compelling read and conducted with remarkably little editorialising - the contrast between the two sets of records says everything that is needed. I really recommend it.

u/esadatari · 2 pointsr/worldpolitics

>Anti-authoritarians question whether an authority is a legitimate one before taking that authority seriously. Evaluating the legitimacy of authorities includes assessing whether or not authorities actually know what they are talking about, are honest, and care about those people who are respecting their authority. And when anti-authoritarians assess an authority to be illegitimate, they challenge and resist that authority—sometimes aggressively and sometimes passive-aggressively, sometimes wisely and sometimes not.

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>Many people with severe anxiety and/or depression are also anti-authoritarians. Often a major pain of their lives that fuels their anxiety and/or depression is fear that their contempt for illegitimate authorities will cause them to be financially and socially marginalized; but they fear that compliance with such illegitimate authorities will cause them existential death.

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>Americans have been increasingly socialized to equate inattention, anger, anxiety, and immobilizing despair with a medical condition, and to seek medical treatment rather than political remedies. What better way to maintain the status quo than to view inattention, anger, anxiety, and depression as biochemical problems of those who are mentally ill rather than normal reactions to an increasingly authoritarian society.

These sections of text all rang very true for me, personally.

I've been un-medicated as someone who was diagnosed with Bi-polar Type 2. I also have ADHD, which I choose to take medicine for. I've since learned to cope, and a lot of it had to deal with learning how to respect and follow my own judgements about the authorities who's control I was under, even if it meant resisting aggressively. I eventually learned to find my own solution within the boundaries of my authorities, which meant everyone won; I got to bypass incompetence, and they got someone who could be obedient within bounds. It's been a valuable resource in my successes, and has been the cause of many issues in my life.

This article provided a lot more context as to how I interpret myself and my place in life. Reading the portion about Einstein reminded me a lot of A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi (which talks about people with bi-polar depression being the best type of leader during times of crisis). Knowing the root causes of what makes you "you" helps provide new understanding, and with it, coping mechanisms to move beyond your shortcomings.

u/anechoicmedia · 1 pointr/worldpolitics

>Whites and blacks smoke week at the same rate, but where it has been made illegal, blacks are four more times likely to be incarcerated for it.

This is a tiresome, misleading talking point.

Template Response: The Use of Drug Arrest Rates to Claim Generalized Racial Bias in Law Enforcement
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There are several dimensions along which this is wrong or misleading.

Surveys Understate Black Drug Usage


The standard evidence that drug use rates don't differ by race comes from surveys of the general population, but blacks are more likely than whites to lie about using drugs. This is seen in situations where we have both self-report and urine test data:

http://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/aids/21/

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/10826087709027235

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232439635_Drug_Use_among_Juvenile_Arrestees_A_Comparison_of_Self-Report_Urinalysis_and_Hair_Assay

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3455900/pdf/11524_2006_Article_433.pdf

More broadly, blacks under-report all criminal behavior in surveys relative to whites.

There Are Qualitative Differences Between Black and White Drug Use


The police are not uniform filters on society, trying to arrest a representative sample of drug users. "Drug users" generally are not the primary concern of the police, who have more important laws to enforce and problems to deal with. The police are more likely to arrest drug users and dealers when their activity is conspicuous or otherwise intersects with their domain of concern. There are reasons to believe that, all else being equal, blacks engage in behavior that puts them far more at risk of being caught by police for petty drug crime:

Black-white differences in reported drug-purchasing behavior in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health:

  • twice as likely to buy outdoors (0.31 versus 0.14)
  • three times more likely to buy from a stranger (0.30 versus 0.09)
  • significantly more likely to buy away from their homes (0.61 versus 0.48)

    There Are Benign Explanations For Black-White Drug Arrest Disparity


    As stated above, busting everyone with a joint is not the goal of most police. The efforts of the police are focused on violent and property crimes. Blacks and black-dense areas have high violent and property crimes generally, which gives blacks more potential interactions with the police in which drugs can be found. Evidence for this explanation is that black drugs users are more likely to use in areas with high crime rates., putting them at obvious risk for police encounters.

    Drug Arrests Are Not Representative of Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement


    The focus on drug arrests in particular is a telling distraction, as the racial arrest disparity is higher for more violent crimes:

    Offense Type | % Black of UCR Arrests
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    Murder | 50
    Violent Crime | 39
    Property Crime| 29
    All Crime|28

    And on these more-important violent crimes, we have reliable, representative data on crime offenders from the NCVS, and can see that there is no aggregate bias in violent crime policing:

    Offense Type | NCVS % Black | UCR Arrestees % Black
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    Rape | 34 | 34
    Robbery |61 |56
    Assault | 27 |33

    Finally, drug offenders in total are only a small part of the incarceration picture:

    Offense Type of Incarcerated by System


    percents sum in columns

    Offense Type | Youth | Local, Not Convicted | Local, Convicted | State | Federal |
    -------------|-------|----------------------|------------------|-------|---------|
    Violent |40% |31% |22% |53% |07%
    Property |24 |25 |25 |19 |06
    Drug | 6 |25 |23 |16 |50
    Public Order |11 |18 |30 |11 |23

    Incarcerated Population by System


    excluding immigration detention and territorial prisons

    System | Population, 1000s | Percent
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    Youth | 34 | 1.5%
    Local, Not Convicted | 451 |20.1
    Local, Convicted | 195 | 8.7
    State |1351 |60.3
    Federal | 211 | 9.4

    Data source: Prison Policy Initiative, 2016

    Note that this may overstate the share of drug-only offenders, as the incarcerated often plead down from higher sentences they may have faced at trial.

    Most of those incarcerated are in state prisons or local jails awaiting trial, and of those most are there for violent offenses; Drug offenders can only represent them so much, and as demonstrated above, the claimed bias in drug arrest rates, even if true, is not generalizable to violent crime arrests.