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Neoliberalism
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World Versus Bank: The Return of the World Bank and the People’s Resistance
Farmers' groups and peasant movements in developing countries, and think tanks and activist groups globally, are uniting behind a new resurgence against the World Bank.
Henry A. Giroux | ISIS and the Spectacle of Terrorism: Resisting Mainstream Workstations of Fear
The spectacle of neoliberal terrorism, violence and misery has become one of the major organizing principles of everyday life.
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Ten Business Lessons for Higher Education
Neoliberal reformers suggest that universities need to act more like businesses, yet their suggestions undermine the purpose of higher education. Instead, what if universities learned the lessons of responsible …
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Scotland Is Seeking Independence From the Political Establishment
Thursday's referendum on Scottish independence is less about nationalism than about the desire of those disenfranchised by neoliberalism to enjoy self-determination.
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Reconceiving Change in the Age of Parasitic Capitalism
Massive economic damage and human suffering resulting from the 2008 financial crisis continue unabated while the implications of this crisis continue to elude us.
Henry A. Giroux | Remembering Hiroshima in an Age of Neoliberal Barbarism
Like the narratives used to justify the US bombing of Japan, history under the reign of neoliberalism is cleansed of its most critical impulses, thus sustaining the fictions and …
Manufactured Emergency: The Neoliberal Assault on Michigan
Those who want to privatize public services and destroy unions have made some successful incursions into the once union-friendly state. Whether Michiganders can mount an effective resistance remains to …
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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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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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Henry A. Giroux: The Militarization of Racism and Neoliberal Violence
Michael Brown's killing by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri is symptomatic of “the neoliberal killing machine” that's emerging all over the world.