Henry A. Giroux | Trumping America

Giroux: Rather than viewing Trump’s comments as a political virus that has deep roots in nativist apoplexy and a long legacy of racism and state violence, his despicable remarks are reduced to an uncivil rant by a bullying member of the billionaire class with no reference to the unmarked status of white privilege and its underlying logic of white supremacy. Such commentary at its core is superficial, duplicitous, and represents a flight from responsibility and a politics of denial.

The Greanville Post • Vol. VIII | Et Tu, Frontline?

It’ clear that from the start—and I would really like to know how this program was incubated, who proposed it and why—the idea was to present Putin as a ruthless opportunistic climber; an autocrat (they call his government a “reign”), bent on personal aggrandizement, saddled with a pathetic Napoleonic complex that propels him to see himself as the savior of Russia, and therefore a believer in the logic of authoritarianism.

Propaganda? What Propaganda? Western Media Monopoly vs Alternative and Non-Western Media

 I believe it important to understand how western media beat the drum of war on behalf of George W. Bush. The echo chamber demonstrated it could be counted on to back acts of aggression around the world with impunity. By Peter Lavelle   Global Research  November 18, 2014   Sputnik  17 November 2014 Region: Russia and FSU   Theme: Media Disinformation We have recently been hearing a More

Mary Beaudoin: Flooding Wall Street

People demand system change, not climate change. When world leaders gathered at a preliminary meeting on climate change at the UN headquarters in New York, and one day after hundreds of thousands (estimates range from 311,000 to 400,000) people marched in the Climate Convergence, there was a coordinated effort to demand accountability for the corporate More

▶ Brave New Films: How Perpetual War Fuels Terrorism

Since 1980, we have militarily intervened at least 35 times in more than 27 countries. We keep bombing, we continue spending trillions of dollars, but we're no safer as a result. [youtube=http://youtu.be/utjxA3GQF5A] CALL YOUR SENATOR: http://www.bravenewfilms.org/callyour... Subscribe or “Follow” us on RiseUpTimes.org. Rise Up Times is also on Facebook! Check the Rise Up Times page for posts from More

The Intercept: News Organizations Finally Realize Obama's War Plan is a Hot Mess

"Rudderless and without a compass, the American ship of state continues to drift, guns blazing."  —Andrew J. Bacevich     BY DAN FROOMKIN  The Intercept  September 11, 2014    President Obama’s plan to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State counts on pretty much everything going right in a region of the world where pretty much More

The Intercept: Media Should Be Challening Arguments for War, Not Baying for Blood

 Washington’s elite media, as usual, is doing its job exactly wrong.They are baying for war.By BY DAN FROOMKIN    TheIntercept.com  September 4, 2014 Pundits and reporters are seemingly competing for who can be more scornful of President Obama for his insufficiently militaristic response to the brutal Sunni militants who call themselves the Islamic State in Iraq and More

Glen Ford: Ferguson and the War on Black America

"Clearly, the U.S. is at war with Black America."Glen Ford By Glen Ford   The Progressive   August 21, 2014The corporate media, reflecting their owners’ anxiety at the failure of Black people to revert to a state of passivity in Ferguson, Missouri, have arrived at a general consensus on two counts: the need to “demilitarize” the police (fewer More

▶ Jeff Nygaard talks about the media, Peacestock 2014

Since September of 1998 JEFF NYGAARD has published his own free newsletter on media, politics, and culture called “Nygaard Notes: Independent Periodic News and Analysis.” His work has appeared in the Star Tribune, Z Magazine, Counterpunch, Access Press, and various other publications. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/100738931] Jeff Nygaard Peacestock 2014 from Bill Sorem PRO   Subscribe or “Follow” us More

▶ Henry Giroux: Liberty and Justice for All?

America descending into madness [youtube=http://youtu.be/ZgxJJFFYpF4] Published on Aug 13, 2014 Author and scholar Henry Giroux sits down with Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss his new book "The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine." Giroux argues that the United States' embrace of a surveillance state and culture of violence have replaced the values of More

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