Authoritarianism

It is the sign of a sick country when the people worship authority.

“Fear, privatization and depoliticization are the organizing principles of American society at the current moment.”

Neoliberal governments invoke phrases like “collateral damage” or “military necessity” to absolve them of the horrors they inflict. We need to develop a new political language.

The commanding institutions of society are now in the hands of powerful corporate interests whose strangulating control over politics renders democracy corrupt and dysfunctional, says Henry A. Giroux.

Henry A. Giroux: The NSA and other intelligence agencies work hard to create an authoritarian state in which the “electronic self” becomes public property.

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.

Increasingly, young people are becoming more willing to cross boundaries, join questions of understanding and power, and bring into being new ways of engaging with the world.

The present Conservative-Socialist coalition Greek government brooks no opposition in its drive to do the bidding of the neoliberal troika that has taken control of the Greek economy.

The seductive power of authoritarianism is particularly strong during times of economic and social stress.

The Texas GOP's hidden curriculum against critical thinking and other educational threats to authoritarianism is now part of its official platform.