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by Henry Girouxcounterpunch.org I consider the survival of National Socialism within democracy to be potentially more menacing than the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy. –Theodor Adorno 1959 DeSantis’s View of Education as Propaganda Factories The crisis of education in the United States presents not only a danger to American democracy, but also the ideological…
Across the Caribbean, soaring national debt is a hidden but decisive aspect of the climate crisis, hobbling countries’ ability to protect themselves from disaster. One island’s leader is fighting to find a way out. by Abrahm Lustgarten Late on May 31, 2018, five days after she was sworn in as prime minister of Barbados, Mia…
Is an insurrection percolating in the MAGA universe? A civil war? ROBERT KOEHLER – JUL 18, 2022 One thing I notice as I read the growing warnings that this is the case is the assumption that suddenly the USA has become a divided nation, a splintered democracy, when, in point of fact, it has always…
Brian Klaas/The Atlantic 22 july 22 The U.S. still has a chance to fix itself before 2024. But when democracies start dying—as ours already has—they usually don’t recover. In 2009, a violent mob stormed the presidential palace in Madagascar, a deeply impoverished red-earthed island off the coast of East Africa. They had been incited to…
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Paul Robeson, the socialist actor, musician, and civil rights campaigner, dedicated his life to battling against right-wing red-baiting that has echoes in reactionary crusades against progressive education and “critical race theory” today. By Joel Whitney jacobin.com 18 July 2022 n hour north of New York City just past the Hudson Line’s Peekskill station, a golf course…
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By Baher Kamal MADRID, Jul 18 2022 (IPS) – South Africa, the home land of the late giant fighter against Apartheid, racism and discrimination – Nelson Mandela “Mandiba”, is already ‘on the precipice of explosive xenophobic violence’ against migrants, refugees, asylum seekers – and even citizens perceived as outsiders. Just three days ahead of this year’s…
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By Marc Saxer BERLIN, Jul 18 2022 (IPS) – With the invasion of Ukraine, Russia effectively destroyed the European peace order. Now, Europe needs to find ways to contain its aggressive neighbour, while its traditional protector, the United States, continues its shift of focus to the Indo-Pacific. This task, however, becomes impossible when China and Russia are…
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Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The world is adrift in the tides of hunger and desolation. It is difficult to think about education, or anything else, when your children are not able to eat. And yet, the sharp attack on education during this past decade forces us to…
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Kyla Sankey/Jacobin 13 july 22 A few years ago, commentators were announcing the demise of the Latin American left. But if Lula wins this autumn’s presidential election in Brazil, the Left will be governing the region’s six largest economies for the first time. Until recently, Latin American commentators were widely reporting on the inevitable “ebbing”…
After apartheid, when black people were given back their land, many felt driven to prove they could farm as well as white South Africans. But even before they had begun, the system was stacked against them by Eve Fairbanks The tiny plane banked and headed north. It was a sunny morning in 2015, and the…
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