ZNet, February 25, 2015. Slowly but surely and at an ever-accelerating pace, the leading issue of our or any time – anthropogenic global warming (AGW) – shapes our experience and limits our future. Don’t kid yourself (no pun intended): things don’t look good for your grandchildren at the current pace of relentless capitalist carbon emission, [...]
Counterpunch, February 20-22, 2014 Paul Street More Than Entertainment The United States corporate media’s function of transmitting ideology and propaganda in service to those atop the nation’s reigning and interrelated structures of Empire and inequality is hardly limited to the news. Equally if not more significant for that that task are “entertainment” media, including – [...]
Paul Street, ZNet, February 11, 2015 I have long registered my agreement with the brilliant socialist philosopher Istvan Merszaros’ dark, environmentally informed 2001 judgment that: “many of the problems we have confront – from chronic structural unemployment to the major political/military conflicts [of our time], as well as the ever more widespread ecological destruction [...]
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TeleSur English, February 6, 2015 King Abdullah: “A Man of Remarkable Character and Courage” The United States purports to be the homeland, beacon, agent, and headquarters of modern democracy. How curious, then, to see U.S. President Barack Obama respond to the passing of Saudi Arabia’s medieval monarch King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz two weeks ago by [...]
TeleSur English, February 4, 2015. I’ve never been much for calling the United States (U.S.) “fascist,” something that a significant number of my fellow leftists and progressives like to do in a half-serious way. What do such progressives mean when they use that loaded and ugly term to describe the contemporary U.S.? In their more [...]
ZNet, February 5, 2015. So I’ve finally gone to see “American Sniper,” the Clint Eastwood flick that has generated so much heated commentary left and right. As everyone knows by now, the movie tells the story of Chris Kyle, the Navy SEALS sniper who registered a US record 160 “enemy kills” during four tours of [...]
Z Magazine, February 2015. In October 2013, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced outrage over the giant global surveillance program conducted by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA). How could Merkel not have cried foul? Among U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden’s many revelations about U.S. spying, it was learned in October that the NSA had listened [...]
TeleSur English, January 27, 2015. In his magisterial, Pulitzer Prize-winning history of Martin Luther King, and the American Civil Rights Movement, David Garrow relates an interesting story from Selma, Alabama, just a few weeks before the famous 1965 Selma marches that helped push United States (US) President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) and the US Congress to pass [...]
Truthout, January 25, 2015 Peter McLaren, Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy and the Foundations of Education, 6th Edition (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2014) "School reform" has a very bad reputation among left thinkers and activists for some very good reasons in the neoliberal era. Captive to corporate-backed school privatization activists, contemporary "school [...]