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Twelve Theses on Education’s Future in the Age of Neoliberalism and Terrorism
The profit-driven goals of neoliberal education policies are antithetical to progressive goals to educate productive participants in democratic culture.
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Elite Attackers of Public Schools Don’t Admit the Impact of Economic Inequality, Racism on Education
In the Progressive Pick book, ‘Badass Teachers Unite,’ Mark Naison points out that school reform policies scapegoat teachers and represent a brilliant tactic to avoid dealing with the real …
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Henry A. Giroux | The New Authoritarianism in an Age of Manufactured Crises
Important issues are buried in the fog of manufactured crises, designed to stir popular sentiment but actually legitimizing policies that benefit the wealthy and hurt working- and middle-class communities, …
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Why Washington’s War on Terror Failed: The Underrated Saudi Connection
There are extraordinary elements in the present US policy in Iraq and Syria that are attracting surprisingly little attention.
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Riddles, Lies, and Lives – From Fidel Castro and Muhammad Ali to Albert Einstein and Barbie
Eduardo Galeano's book, “Mirrors” is a history of humanity in 366 episodes, from our first myths to late last night.
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What Happens to a Society When It Turns Against Many of Its Children and Imprisons Them?
If we want to change the United States' senseless addiction to incarceration, the best possible place to start is transforming how our justice system treats our children.
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The Massacre of Civilians in Gaza Is Deja Vu All Over Again
In this excerpt from Max Blumenthal's “Goliath,” the author reports on an Israeli attack on Gaza, one of several such IDF campaigns known in Israel as “mowing the lawn.”
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The United States Has Excelled in Illegal Goods and Smuggling People Since Its Founding
“Smuggler Nation” takes on the notion that the United States has been strictly a law-abiding nation when it comes to imports.
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With the Plundering of Fossil Fuels, the Future May Be the Past: An Agrarian Society
As we exhaust the fossil fuels and minerals of the planet, we face the threat of exhausting the raw materials that built the modern world.
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The “Liberal” Ivory Tower Often Discriminates Against Women of Color
Academia allegedly encourages meritocracy and the creation of objective knowledge - values that should make race and gender identities irrelevant. But women of color too frequently find themselves "presumed …