As more and more individuals and groups are now considered excess, consigned to zones of abandonment, surveillance and incarceration, dystopian politics has become mainstream politics and the practice of disposability has intensified. There are alternatives.  By Henry A Giroux and Brad Evans, Truthout.org | Op-Ed  01 June 2014   (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Also see: Henry A. Giroux | Disposable More
Thus the dear children survive elementary school, junior high school, and finally high school, only to be sent off to kill people in places like Haiti, Iraq, and Afghanistan. There they learn not to distinguish those who are defending their countries from invasion from those who either cannot fight (like children and the elderly) or More
H. Rap Brown was right. “Violence is a part of America’s culture. . . . We all pay the price for this institutionalized violence. BY ED FELIEN  April 21, 2014  SouthsidePride.com What H. Rap Brown actually said in that speech in Washington, D.C., in 1967 was: “I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of More
A number of neoliberal societies, including the United States, have become addicted to violence. War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. As war becomes a mode of sovereignty and rule, it erodes the distinction between war and peace.  By Henry A More
A number of neoliberal societies, including the United States, have become addicted to violence. War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. As war becomes a mode of sovereignty and rule, it erodes the distinction between war and peace.  By Henry A More
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.   —Chris Hedges By Henry A Giroux  Wednesday, 25 September 2013   Truthout.org | Op-Ed Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout What kind of society emerges when More
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.   —Chris Hedges By Henry A Giroux  Wednesday, 25 September 2013   Truthout.org | Op-Ed Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout What kind of society emerges when More
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.                                  —  Nelson Mandela by Henry A. Giroux  January 7, 2014  PhilosophersforChange.org Guy Debord once More
Chicago’s Peace Warriors By Kazu Haga   Rethinking Schools Volume 26 No.2 – Winter 2011-2012 Illustration: Jordin Isip A group of students from Chicago’s North Lawndale College Preparatory High were in the middle of a weeklong summer training to become Peace Warriors—peer nonviolence leaders. Suddenly, a sophomore named Alicia got a text message alerting her that More
