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Chris Hedges: Why Americans can’t debate politics anymore

Six corporations control what's often referred to as the Legacy Media but there are still just a handful of corporations that control digital media as well, so we're looking at about maybe 10 or so corporations that control all of the media that people use, I think that's a really important factor when we talk about this because increasingly people of all age groups say they get their "news" from these digital outlets... [From transcript]

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Henry Giroux: The Nazification of American Education

Institutions of learning at all levels in the red states are becoming laboratories for what I [Giroux] term the Nazification of American education, replicating pedagogies of repression that were at work in Germany in the 1930s.

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Henry Giroux: Those arguing that education should be neutral are really arguing for a version of education in which nobody is accountable

Giroux advocates that “education has to be at the centre of any discourse about democracy and that is where the left has failed. They failed because they believe that the most important structures of domination are entirely economic”.

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As Corporate Capitalists Beg For Socialism, Let’s Not Forget They Tried To Destroy It

"MAINSTREAM MEDIA is more afraid of socialism than it is of COVID-19. "How the mainstream media manufactures consent to the programs for the corporations instead of for the people of the United States.

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Chris Hedges, On Contact | The failing education system, with Nikhil Goya (Video)

1 in 4 U.S. children live in poverty and other problems in the education system

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Chris Hedges, On Contact | The failing education system, with Nikhil Goya (Video)

1 in 4 U.S. children live in poverty and other problems in the education system

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Henry Giroux: Data Storms and the Tyranny of Manufactured Forgetting

The current mainstream debate regarding the crisis in Iraq and Syria offers a near perfect example of both the death of historical memory and the collapse of critical thinking in the United States. It also signifies the emergence of a profoundly anti-democratic culture of manufactured ignorance and social indifference. By Henry A. Giroux Truthout.org | News Analysis More

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Henry A. Giroux | Neoliberalism's War on Democracy

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James Baldwin Henry A. Giroux truthout.org April 26, 2014 The following is the introduction to Henry Giroux's new book Neoliberalism's War on Higher More

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Henry A. Giroux | Neoliberalism’s War on Democracy

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James Baldwin Henry A. Giroux truthout.org April 26, 2014 The following is the introduction to Henry Giroux's new book Neoliberalism's War on Higher More

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Polly Mann: Melt-Down or Revival of Critical Thinking?

By Polly Mann WomenAgainstMilitaryMadnessNewsletter March/April 2014 For more than 30 years, nuclear power appeared to be on the wane in the U.S. Although some existing plants did increase their capacities through refurbishing, most new construction that occurred after the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania had been approved prior to the incident. More

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Henry A. Giroux | Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University

"The University is a critical institution or it is nothing." - Stuart Hall By Henry A Giroux Tuesday, 29 October 2013 Truthout | Op-Ed (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) I want to begin with the words of the late African-American poet, Audre Lourde, who was in her time a formidable writer, educator, feminist, gay rights activist and public intellectual who More

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