" The Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST), working with court records, has analyzed the demographics and home county characteristics of the 377 Americans, from 250 counties in 44 states, arrested or charged in the Capitol attack. Those involved are, by and large, older and more professional than right-wing protesters we have surveyed in the past. They typically have no ties to existing right-wing groups. But like earlier protesters, they are 95 percent White and 85 percent male, and many live near and among Biden supporters in blue and purple counties…
…Nor were these insurrectionists typically from deep-red counties. Some 52 percent are from blue counties that Biden comfortably won. But by far the most interesting characteristic common to the insurrectionists’ backgrounds has to do with changes in their local demographics: Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic White population are the most likely to produce insurrectionists who now face charges.
Jackpot."
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a36040222/robert-pape-cpost-report-january-6-insurrection/
…Nor were these insurrectionists typically from deep-red counties. Some 52 percent are from blue counties that Biden comfortably won. But by far the most interesting characteristic common to the insurrectionists’ backgrounds has to do with changes in their local demographics: Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic White population are the most likely to produce insurrectionists who now face charges.
Jackpot."
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a36040222/robert-pape-cpost-report-january-6-insurrection/
Esquire
A New Study Draws a Line from January 6 to Charlottesville
If you ever wonder why the Republican Party can’t cut loose of the crazy, refer to the results of this study.
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World roundup: June 3 2021
Stories from Yemen, Indonesia, Venezuela, and more
"In this case study, the geopolitical coverage in nine leading European newspapers was examined for diversity and journalistic performance using the example of the Syrian war.
The results confirm the high dependence on the global news agencies (63 to 90%, excluding commentaries and interviews) and the lack of own investigative research, as well as the rather biased commenting on events in favor of the US/NATO side (82% positive; 2% negative), whose stories were not checked by the newspapers for any propaganda."
https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/
The results confirm the high dependence on the global news agencies (63 to 90%, excluding commentaries and interviews) and the lack of own investigative research, as well as the rather biased commenting on events in favor of the US/NATO side (82% positive; 2% negative), whose stories were not checked by the newspapers for any propaganda."
https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/
Swiss Policy Research
The Propaganda Multiplier
It is one of the most important aspects of our media system – and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global new…
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Our Weekly Discontents, 6/7/2021
The D in D-Day 2021 is for Dongcopter
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The presence of strong labor unions substantially reduces poverty for both unionized households and non-unionized households.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00197939211014855
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00197939211014855
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SAGE Journals
Labor Unions and American Poverty - Tom VanHeuvelen, David Brady, 2021
American poverty research largely neglects labor unions. The authors use individual-level panel data, incorporate both household union membership and state-leve...
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World roundup: June 8 2021
Stories from Syria, Afghanistan, Peru, and more