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David Fields
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Classical-Keynesian Institutionalist Political Economist.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Fields-5
Adem Elveren and I introduce the concept of the security trilemma to argue that to simultaneously maximize national security, social security, & trade security is challenging, especially for the periphery, given the nature of neoliberal world-system. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The Security Trilemma A Critical Research Agenda
PDF | On Nov 15, 2025, David Fields and others published The Security Trilemma A Critical Research Agenda | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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where do people think al-Qaeda came from in the first place?
Sharaa's actual job in al-Qaeda in Iraq was overseeing suicide bomb manufacturing. Amazing career progression.
Has anybody asked the dickheads who spent years squealing idiot abuse at anyone who said the War On Terror was dumb and murderous bullshit what they make of western leaders queuing up to shake hands with Mr Al Qaeda In Syria? I want to hear them blame this one on post-modernism.
November 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM
AI embodies capitalism’s ultimate drive for accumulation but simultaneously dismantles the very structural mechanism required for the system’s self-preservation.

utahvanguard.medium.com/is-ai-capita...
Is AI Capitalism’s Creative Self-Destruction? A Short Rant
By David Fields
utahvanguard.medium.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The victory of Mamdani in New York City is a breath of progressive fresh air. To help ensure that he commits to his promises, I offer some constructive criticism.
utahvanguard.medium.com/mamdanis-yim...
Mamdani’s YIMBY/Abundance Pivot: A Betrayal of Justice?
By David Fields
utahvanguard.medium.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
YIMBY helped make NYC one of the most expensive cities in the world for housing, so how is YIMBY going to make it affordable?
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
An internment camp for the unsheltered far outside the city. This is YIMBY.
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I spoke with Salvadoran journalist @petizagavarrete.bsky.social about the rise of fascism, militarism, and tech-bro gentrification under Nayib Bukele's indefinite state of exception.
‘Little by little, we’re realizing the true scale of human loss in El Salvador’
A conversation with Salvadoran journalist Julia Gavarrete, on fascism, militarism, and tech-bro gentrification under Nayib Bukele’s indefinite ‘state of exception.'
substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“Unbridled desire to work”…they really want your soul don’t they? Your labor, it seems, is not enough.
October 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Award-winning Palestinian author on Israeli prison, exile and homeland flip.it/_05WlO
Award-winning Palestinian author on Israeli prison, exile and homeland
Basim Khandakji describes conditions in Israeli prisons and his journey to writing despite the challenges.
flip.it
October 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
October 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Returning to Gaza City, a family finds bulldozed graves and little hope flip.it/kZRjP6
Returning to Gaza City, a family finds bulldozed graves and little hope
Hiba and Mohammad have suffered immensely during Israel's war on Gaza, and have little to look forward to.
flip.it
October 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Politics as a vocation
October 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
October 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The sham prize awarded to three white males for the most insipid Schumpeterian theory of technological change…
Congrats to the 2025 Nobel winners in Economics! Their vital message: Progress isn't an accident, it's a choice. Stagnation was the historical norm. To keep our economy growing, we must actively choose openness and innovation over isolation.
October 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Capitalism cultivates psychosocial, cultural syndromes, of which liberalism exacerbates that sets in motion the conditions for fascism to take root and metastasize.
realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-...
Episode 349 - Cultural Syndromes of Capitalism with David Fields
David Fields talks about 3 cultural syndromes of capitalism: gain primacy syndrome, zero-sum rivalry syndrome, and ownership syndrome.
realprogressives.org
October 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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#Capitalism suffers from psychosocial pathologies, and by blaming the marginalized, it inevitably paves the way for #fascism in our society. @austerityismurder.bsky.social & @profdavidfields.bsky.social
Episode 349 - Cultural Syndromes of Capitalism with David Fields
David Fields talks about 3 cultural syndromes of capitalism: gain primacy syndrome, zero-sum rivalry syndrome, and ownership syndrome.
realprogressives.org
October 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The confluence of profit redirection from the real economy towards financialization and the simultaneous erosion of social protections fundamentally engenders human deprivation.

utahvanguard.medium.com/securing-pro...
Securing Profit: Neoliberalism as a Structural Mechanism for Human Insecurity
By Adem Yavuz Elveren and David Fields
utahvanguard.medium.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Instead of awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to deserving persons, like the journalists of Gaza or Sumud Flotilla Activists, in particular Greta Thunberg, it is given to a right wing, US funded, Venezuelan Zionist who has tirelessly worked to undermine the Bolivarian Revolution.
NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Our new paper on "Place-based solidarity: Crisis, austerity and the devolution of responsibility"

authors: Coco Huggins and Mia Gray

is now available free online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Recurring fiscal crises afflicting U.S. municipalities are neither isolated nor accidental occurrences; rather, they constitute a deliberate political strategy engineered to achieve specific, capitalist class-based outcomes.

utahvanguard.medium.com/from-manager...
From Managerialism to Crisis: The Shock Doctrine of US Municipal Finance
By David Fields
utahvanguard.medium.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Inequality is the modus operandi of the economy.
utahvanguard.medium.com/on-economic-...
On Economic Inequality
By David Fields
utahvanguard.medium.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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My latest post…...https://annpettifor.substack.com/
October 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM