by Sanjay Perera
In an age of attention deficit disorders, selfies, and a generation of youth brought up through incarceration: how likely are Americans to take a united stand against gun violence? Continue reading Taking notes 62: America is a death-driven state
by Henry A. Giroux
Trump’s business practices that some admire are representative of neoliberal capitalism: which has produced human misery, political corruption and inequality throughout the world. Continue reading Taking notes 57: Liberal commentators who are apologists for Trump’s racism
by Henry A. Giroux
Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that both lives by violence and uses it as tool to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Continue reading America’s addiction to violence
by Henry A. Giroux
Donald Trump’s blatant appeal to fascist ideology and policy considerations took a more barefaced and dangerous turn last week when he released a statement calling for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Continue reading Taking notes 53: The fascism of Donald Trump’s America
by Sanjay Perera
This Ragnarök finale that ISIS is hung up on is in effect exemplary in its utilitarian approach of the ends justifies the means thinking that underlies the rationality of its Apocalypse. Continue reading ISIS and the instrumental rationality of its Apocalypse
Chris Hedges is a journalist, activist, author, and clergyman. Continue reading Chris Hedges: The moral imperative of revolt
by Henry A. Giroux Hurricane Katrina does more than evoke a critical understanding of institutional racism and the politics of racial disposability[1]; it also elicits new and more dangerous justifications for racist policies. For instance, the neoliberal shill Malcolm Gladwell … Continue reading Taking notes 51: Dark waters: Katrina and the politics of disposability
by Henry A. Giroux Authoritarianism in the American collective psyche and in what might be called traditional narratives of historical memory is always viewed as existing elsewhere. Viewed as an alien and demagogic political system, it is primarily understood as … Continue reading The plague of American authoritarianism
by Ernesto “Che” Guevara Now is the time of the furnaces, and only light should be seen. — Jose Marti Twenty-one years have already elapsed since the end of the last world conflagration; numerous publications, in every possible language, celebrate … Continue reading Ernesto “Che” Guevara: message to the Tricontinental
by Henry A. Giroux On July 9, soon after Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African-American woman, moved to Texas from Naperville, Illinois to take a new job as a college outreach officer at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M, she was … Continue reading Taking notes 48: America’s new brutalism: the death of Sandra Bland
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