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This week: Updates on on the 10th anniversary of the Lehman Brothers Bank collapse; helping Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explain how to finance socialist projects; Colin Kaepernick’s ad for Nike and more contradictions of capitalism; Professor Michael Pelias on the rationale and goals of launching a new Left University in New York City