To Stop the Next War Before It Starts, We Need to Confront Militarism Itself, by Michael Galant
"The imminent threat of war with Iran seems to have passed. We’re still not out of the woods — not by a long shot."
"The imminent threat of war with Iran seems to have passed. We’re still not out of the woods — not by a long shot."
The uprising includes trade unions and student, feminist, and environmentalist groups. They are calling for a reversal of neoliberal capitalism and a new government.Â
U.S. President’s apparent passion for cruelty speaks to a greater American illness.
U.S. President’s apparent passion for cruelty speaks to a greater American illness.
Giroux discusses torture, militarisation, surveillance, racism, education and austerity ... and draws the links to the military-industrial-academic complex.
The left needs a new political conversation that encompasses memories of freedom and resistance. Such a dialogue would build on the militancy of the labor strikes of the 1930s, the civil rights movements of the 1950s and the struggle for participatory democracy by the New Left in the 1960s. At the same time, there is a need to reclaim the radical imagination and to infuse it with a spirited battle for an independent politics that regards a radical democracy as part of a never-ending struggle.
"But I want to introduce a caveat. I think it is a mistake to simply focus on the militarization of the police and their racist actions in addressing the killing of Michael Brown. What we are witnessing in this brutal killing and mobilization of state violence is symptomatic of the neoliberal, racist, punishing state emerging More
. . . proposed ‘reforms’ offer ways to rehabilitate perceptions of powerful businesses and corporations, in order to head-off rising worker discontent and thus keep the system going, while continuing to maximise profits for the few at the expense of the planet. By Nafeez Ahmed  The Guardian  Wednesday, May 28, 2014  TheRawStory.com Yesterday’s [5/27/14] Conference on More