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Author and Columnist Henry A. Giroux Says American Democracy Is in Decay

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Henry A. Giroux. (Image: <a href= Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)” width=”308″ height=”342″ />Henry A. Giroux. (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)Radioactivity’s Rob Lorei speaks with Henry A Giroux, columnist for Truthout.org and author who says the state of US today has turned into an authoritarian one.

Henry Giroux articles:

Reclaiming the Radical Imagination: Challenging Casino Capitalism’s Punishing Factories

Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares

America’s Descent Into Madness

The Violence of Organized Forgetting

To read more articles by Henry A. Giroux and other authors in the Public Intellectual Project, click here.

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