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Henry Giroux: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education
Academic Chronis Polychroniou interviews Henry Giroux, a professor in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.
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On the Shoulders of Giants
Efforts to place Obama outside of history are only possible in a society that treats history like yesterday's garbage.
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Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society
The “war on youth” not only attempts to erase the democratic legacies of the past, but disavows any commitment to the future.
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Against the Militarized Academy
While there is an ongoing discussion about what shape the military-industrial complex will take under an Obama presidency, what is often left out of this analysis is the intrusion …
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Obama and the Promise of Education
The Obama administration will fail badly if it does not connect the current financial and credit crisis to the crisis of democracy and its poisonous undoing by commanding market …
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Dick Cheney’s Psychology | Part 2: The “Attendant Lord”
Cheney has fashioned his vassal relationship with Bush into a tightly co-dependent one.
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Dick Cheney’s Psychology | Part 1: Almost Pleasantly Adrift
Has the man who's considered a master at manufacturing false realities successfully manufactured one about himself?
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How the Rich Are Destroying the Planet
A review and translated excerpt of the book from Herv Kempf, along with a conversation with the author.
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Please Don’t Make My Grandchildren Pay for the War That Killed Their Father
Do you believe this additional money will be spent on the troops? Do you think the troops will get what they need?
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Letting Go of Hope
As the world grows ever darker, I've been forcing myself to think about hope.