Are we in the beginning of a new fascist era?   

This week on the Project Censored Show Mickey Huff welcomes new co-host Chase Palmieri as they welcome back world-renowned educator, author, and public intellectual, Professor Henry Giroux. They discuss Giroux’s latest book from City Lights Books Open Media Series, American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism.   

“In this current era of corporate media misdirection and misinformation . . . Henry Giroux is one of the few great political voices of today, with powerful insight into the truth.   

Henry A. Giroux  City Lights Books
June 18, 2018

Are we in the beginning of a new fascist era?
As white supremacy, ultra-nationalism, rabid misogyny and anti-immigrant fervor coalesce, a new and uniquely American form of fascism looms. Could our current moment actually bring about the end of democracy in the United States? Are Americans willing to surrender their freedom and dignity, along with their ongoing struggle for equality, justice and mutual respect in the face of the rising tide of political and ideological extremism?
In this provocative collection of essays, Henry Giroux warns of the consequences of doing too little as Trump and the so-called alt-right relentlessly attack critics, journalists, and target the hard-earned civil rights of women, people of color, immigrants, the working class, and low-income Americans. As we face down the frightening reality of living under a system that serves only the interests of the wealthy few, Giroux makes a passionate call for ordinary citizens to organize, educate, and resist by all available means.
Praise for American Nightmare & Henry A. Giroux:
“In this current era of corporate media misdirection and misinformation . . . Henry Giroux is one of the few great political voices of today, with powerful insight into the truth. Dr. Giroux is defiantly explaining, against the grain, what’s REALLY going on right now, and doing so quite undeniably. Simply put, the ideas he brings forth are a beacon that need to be seen and heard and understood in order for the world to progress.”––Julian Casablancas, lead vocalist for The Strokes
“In frightening times like these, what is desperately needed is an informed and wise voice that speaks clearly and with conviction about the situation we are in, and what can be done. Henry Giroux is one of the great public intellectuals of our times, and American Nightmare is exactly the book for people grappling with how to understand the Trump era and how to proceed. This is precisely the book that needs to be shared with friends and acquaintances. It will provoke hard thinking, bring clarity, and stimulate much needed conversation and action.”––Robert W. McChesney, co-author of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
“We have no greater chronicler of these dystopian times. Giroux’s critique cuts to the crux of today’s authoritarian crisis, yet his voice remains of one hope that the people may collectively regain control. Even while living though systemic efforts to privatize hope, Giroux’s critique enacts the sort of shared resistance that can effectively challenge authoritarianism. American Nightmaredemonstrates how we can resist the normalization of hate, authoritarianism and alienation in Trump’s America. He shows us that not only are we not alone, but we are among a majority who oppose the cruelties of American social policies.”––David H. Price, author of Cold War Anthropology: The CIA and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology
“At a moment when the news cycle presents the dangers of Trumpian authoritarianism through disjointed and discrete hottakes, Giroux’s wide-reaching analysis accounts for our current American nightmare with necessary historical context, and in so doing creates an aperture for resistance more meaningful than a hashtag.”––Natasha Lennard, contributing writer for The Intercept, co-editor of Violence: Humans in Dark Times
“In this passionately argued volume, Henry Giroux, long known for his critical commentaries on the de-democratization of the U.S.A., on its rising inequ(al)ity and neoliberal excesses, reflects very thoughtfully on the specter of Trump’s America: on its violence, cruelty, and incivility, its burgeoning authoritarianism, its inexorable edging toward a Grave Neo World: in short, a rising specter that demands to be countered at all cost if the U.S. is to be rescued from itself.”––John Comaroff, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, Harvard University
Publisher City Lights Publishers
Format Paperback
Nb of pages 384 p.
ISBN-10 0872867536
ISBN-13 9780872867536
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Henry A. Giroux is a world-renowned educator, author, and public intellectual. He currently holds the Professorship for Scholarship in the Public Interest and The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar Chair in Critical Pedagogy at McMaster University in Canada. His most recent books include The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights, 2014); Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket, 2014); Disposable Futures (City Lights, 2015); Dangerous Thinking (Routledge, 2015); America’s Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), and America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2017).
A prolific writer and political commentator, he has appeared in a wide range of media, including Truthout, Salon, CounterPunch, the New York Times and Bill Moyers & Company. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with his wife, Dr. Susan Searls Giroux.

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  1. john July 7, 2018 at 2:50 AM

    thanks

  2. 21st Century Poet July 4, 2018 at 11:34 AM

    Reblogged this on 21st Century Theater.

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