Henry Giroux: Radical Democracy Against Cultures of Violence
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
Flowers and Zeese: Major Social Transformation Is a Lot Closer Than You May Realize – How Do We Finish the Job?
It starts with winning over the hearts and minds of the American people. By Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers December 30, 2013 AlterNet The current social movement that exploded onto the national scene with the 2011 Occupy Movement is following the path of successful movements so far. The social change movement in 2014 is poised to begin an More
Rebecca Solnit: Too Soon to Tell — The Case for Hope
The future is bigger than our imaginations. It’s unimaginable, and then it comes anyway. To meet it we need to keep going, to walk past what we can imagine. We need to be unstoppable. By Rebecca Solnit May 19, 2013 TomDispatch.com Read Tom Engelhardt's introduction here. Ten years ago, my part of the world was full More
Nathan Schneider — How the Occupy Movement Began: The Full Account
Excerpt from Thank You Anarchy, Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse by Nathan Schneider Occupy Wall Street banner with Alexander Hamilton By Nathan Schneider November 1st, 2013 www.truth-out.org PopularResistance.org Powered by Translate Nathan Schneider, the author of “Thank You Anarchy,” was covering the Occupy Movement from its origins. In his first chapter, More
Popular Resistance Newsletter — Revolution Of The Mind Is Underway
NEWSLETTER November 1st, 2013 PopularResistance.org Powered by Translate Chris Hedges has an important essay in Truthdig this week, Our Invisible Revolution. [Posted separately on WAMMToday] Essentially he describes a revolution of the mind in which people’s consciousness are raised as they become aware of the inability of the current governmental and economic systems to respond to the More
Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer Discuss American Fascism
Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer Discuss American Fascism LISTEN NOW The two celebrated journalists discuss the collapse of vital institutions and the rise of demagogues and charlatans in post-meltdown America. 10/11/13 Free View In iTunes A truthdig.com Podcast Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on More
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
Chris Hedges: Our Invisible Revolution
“Because revolution is evolution at its boiling point you cannot ‘make’ a real revolution any more than you can hasten the boiling of a tea kettle,” Berkman wrote. “It is the fire underneath that makes it boil: how quickly it will come to the boiling point will depend on how strong the fire is.” By Chris More
Michael Parenti> Media Disinformation: The Role of Powerful Political Lobbies and Moneyed Interests in America
Renowned American intellectual and cultural critic believes that the United States, is exercising double standards with regards to Iran’s nuclear program and treating Iranians in a discriminatory way through imposing unilateral and unjust sanctions. By Michael Parenti and Kourosh Ziabari Global Research, July 27, 2013 FARS New “Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which gives it the More
Michael Parenti> Media Disinformation: The Role of Powerful Political Lobbies and Moneyed Interests in America
Renowned American intellectual and cultural critic believes that the United States, is exercising double standards with regards to Iran’s nuclear program and treating Iranians in a discriminatory way through imposing unilateral and unjust sanctions. By Michael Parenti and Kourosh Ziabari Global Research, July 27, 2013 FARS New “Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which gives it the More
Henry A. Giroux> The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy. By Henry A. Giroux Monday, 22 July 2013 Truthout | Op-Ed "People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring More
Henry A. Giroux> The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of institutions and public spheres that have provided the minimal conditions for democracy. By Henry A. Giroux Monday, 22 July 2013 Truthout | Op-Ed "People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring More