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  • Trump’s Neo-Nazis and the Rise of Illiberal Democracy

    The authoritarian drama unfolding across the United States has many registers and includes state violence against immigrants, right-wing populist violence against mosques and synagogues, and attacks on Muslims, Black people and others who do not fit into the vile script… Continue reading

  • Bank Bail-Ins Begin

    If you have more money in bank accounts than I have–or probably ever will have–you might want to learn what the difference is between bank bail-outs and bank bail-ins. Very much worth a couple of reads. Over-extraction of all capital… Continue reading

  • Debtfare: the Commodification of Student Debt

    Despite the uneasy relationship between the profitable student loan industry and growing student debt defaults, students continue to borrow to pay for college, and educational loans are the only form of consumer debt to increase markedly since 2008. The industry… Continue reading

    Debtfare: the Commodification of Student Debt

  • Overcoming the McMindfulness Craze

    Jeffrey R. Rubin examines the troubles that arise when meditative practices of detachment, like those in Buddhism, are decontextualized and used to further repress our emotions. He recommends another kind of engaged reflection called emancipatory meditation. Emancipatory meditation – which involves intimacy with… Continue reading

  • Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

    The revelations of whistle-blowers such as Chelsea Manning, Jeremy Hammond and Edward Snowden about government lawlessness and corporate spying provide a new meaning if not a revitalized urgency and relevance to George Orwell’s dystopian fable 1984. Orwell offered his readers an… Continue reading

    Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

  • Concentrating on U.S. Prisons

    Ted Asregadoo speaks with Truthout Executive Director, Maya Schenwar, about her current book project on prisons in the United States, solitary confinement, the nature of time, and why the humane treatment of prisoners is integral to the preservation of human… Continue reading

    Concentrating on U.S. Prisons

  • Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth

    On July 25 the journal Nature published an article about the “Economic time bomb” that is slowly being detonated by Arctic warming. Gail Whiteman of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, and Chris Hope and Peter Wadhams of the University of Cambridge suggest—based on… Continue reading

    Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth

  • Interview with Matt Bors: Drawing Terrible Things Without Causing Despair | Truthout

    Truthout has been publishing Matt Bors‘ cartoons for more than a year now, and we’re not the only ones who have taken notice of him. Bors has won awards for his editorial cartooning including the Herblock Prize and the Society… Continue reading

    Interview with Matt Bors: Drawing Terrible Things Without Causing Despair | Truthout

  • Can We Rethink the World?

    I know that we can rethink the world; moreover, I believe that we should. Henry Giroux and Brad Evans are both public intellectuals very well worth engaging. Please let me know what you think. I also recommend learning about the… Continue reading

    Can We Rethink the World?

  • Overcoming Sectarianism

    Sectarianism, fed by fanaticism, is always castrating. Radicaliza-tion, nourished by a critical spirit, is always creative. Sectarianism mythicizes and thereby alienates; radicalization criticizes and thereby liberates. Radicalization involves increased commitment to the position one has chosen, and thus ever greater… Continue reading

    Overcoming Sectarianism

  • Brad Evans and Henry Giroux Conversation (full)

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Dr Brad Evans (Senior Lecturer in International Studies (Bristol) and Founder/Director of the Histories of Violence Project) and Dr Henry A. Giroux (Professo… See on www.youtube.com Related articles The Bad University Department (zeroanthropology.net) Dissent… Continue reading

    Brad Evans and Henry Giroux Conversation (full)

  • Henry A. Giroux | The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals in Dark Times

    …In the name of austerity, schools are defunded so as to fail and provide an excuse to be turned over to the privatizing advocates of free-market fundamentalism. In this discourse, free-market reform refuses to imagine public education as the provision… Continue reading

  • Glenn Greenwald Leaves Salon for the Guardian | The Wrap Media

    Good luck at the Guardian Glenn. I look forward to seeing the great things you will do there. Keep the faith and stick to your guns! Indeed, the former New York prosecutor has led multiple charges with his stories, most… Continue reading