Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist

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Sources/Links/Notes:

• Thomas Friedman, "Foreign Affairs Big Mac I," The New York Times, December 8, 1996.
• Matt Taibbi's critique of Hot, Flat, and Crowded -- "Flathead" Strauss Media, November 21, 2014.
• Jason Hickel et al., "Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015," Global Environmental Change, March 2022.
• Thomas Friedman, "The Earth Is Full," The New York Times, June 7, 2011.
• Thomas Friedman, "Something's Happening Here," The New York Times, October 11, 2011.
• Thomas Friedman, "Want to Save the Earth? We Need a Lot More Elon Musks.," The New York Times, November 16, 2021.
• Thomas Friedman, "How We Broke the World," The New York Times, May 30, 2020.
• Belen Fernandez, The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, November 1, 2011.
• Here's the archive of Global Citizen columns by Donella Meadows.
• Ian Parker, "The Bright Side: The relentless optimism of Thomas Friedman," The New Yorker, November 2, 2008.
• Thomas Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, 1999.
• Thomas Friedman The World Is Flat, YouTube video of Yale University Lecture, 2009.
• Garrett Graff, "Thomas Friedman is On Top of the World," Washingtonian Magazine, July 1, 2006.  

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