The West is in decline. Its strengths have been transformed into weakness due to excess tolerance, open borders, bringing in masses of those with destructive attitudes, cultures and vicious ideologies. And help from the enemy within. Continue reading The decline of the West: and then there were none
The entire illegals fiasco showcases the expenditure of national and public resources on anyone except the people who help built those resources in Britain. Finally, the British are aware of the nightmare they are in. Continue reading The economy of violence (reprised): waste, expenditure, and the invasion of Britain
The mainstream media is complicit in supporting Harris-Walz and demonising Trump-Vance. It also disturbingly downplays the quite diabolical opening and closing ceremonies of a world event like the Olympics. Continue reading 2024 is Orwell’s 1984
What should stand out is that Trudeau following the Oligarchy playbook pulled a similar stunt in attacking his fellow citizens who stood up to his fascist tendencies. Continue reading A Journal of the Plague Year 2022: The libidinal economy—Capitalism and schizophrenia (a scaffolding)
Far from the competition promised by capitalism, BlackRock and Vanguard own significant shares in companies that ostensibly compete directly with each other, such as Google, Apple and Microsoft, or Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. Continue reading Corporate Vaccine Mandates and Vaccine Passports—Brought to You by BlackRock and Vanguard?
Many people make Faustian bargains trading personal integrity for material advantage. Oftentimes it is a gradual erosion of moral fiber. Occasionally it happens in an instant; a man stands at a moral crossroads and chooses the dark side. Continue reading The Day Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma
Aldous Huxley: darkness and light (a documentary) Continue reading Aldous Huxley: darkness and light
by Henry A. Giroux
Struggles will only succeed if more progressives embrace an expansive understanding of politics, not fixating singularly on elections or any other issue but rather emphasizing the connections among diverse social movements. Continue reading Taking notes 59: radical politics in the age of American authoritarianism
Henry A. Giroux is McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and the Paulo Freire Chair in Critical Pedagogy at The McMaster Institute for Innovation & Excellence in Teaching & Learning. Continue reading Henry A. Giroux: Youth, authoritarianism, and challenging neoliberalism’s politics of disposability
by Henry A. Giroux
In the current historical moment in the United States, the emptying out of language is nourished by the assault on the civic imagination. One example of this can be found in the rise of Donald Trump on the political scene. Donald Trump’s popular appeal speaks to not just the boldness of what he says and the shock it provokes, but the inability to respond to shock with informed judgement rather than titillation Continue reading Donald Trump and the ghost of totalitarianism
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