Tag Archives: critical thinking

Henry Giroux: Those arguing that education should be neutral are really arguing for a version of education in which nobody is accountable

March 4, 2021 · by · in Activism, Education, Social Change, Social movements

Giroux advocates that “education has to be at the centre of any discourse about democracy and that is where the left has failed. They failed because they believe that the most important structures of domination are entirely economic”.

As Corporate Capitalists Beg For Socialism, Let’s Not Forget They Tried To Destroy It

April 1, 2020 · by · in capitalist system, mainstream media, manufacturing consent, psychological warfare · 1 Comment

“MAINSTREAM MEDIA is more afraid of socialism than it is of COVID-19. “How the mainstream media manufactures consent to the programs for the corporations instead of for the people of the United States.

Chris Hedges, On Contact | The failing education system, with Nikhil Goya (Video)

April 10, 2017 · by · in Education · 1 Comment

1 in 4 U.S. children live in poverty and other problems in the education system

Henry Giroux: Data Storms and the Tyranny of Manufactured Forgetting

June 25, 2014 · by · in corporate media empire, Government/Politics, Militarism, Military Madness

The current mainstream debate regarding the crisis in Iraq and Syria offers a near perfect example of both the death of historical memory and the collapse of critical thinking in the United States. It also signifies the emergence of a profoundly anti-democratic culture of manufactured ignorance and social indifference. By Henry A. Giroux  Truthout.org | News Analysis […]

Henry A. Giroux | Neoliberalism’s War on Democracy

May 6, 2014 · by · in Corporations/Capitalism, Human Rights, Militarism, U.S. Economy

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.                               — James Baldwin Henry A. Giroux  truthout.org  April 26, 2014 The following is the introduction to Henry Giroux’s new book Neoliberalism’s War on Higher […]

Polly Mann: Melt-Down or Revival of Critical Thinking?

April 21, 2014 · by · in climate change, corporate empire, corporate globalization, Environment

    By Polly Mann   WomenAgainstMilitaryMadnessNewsletter  March/April 2014 For more than 30 years, nuclear power appeared to be on the wane in the U.S. Although some existing plants did increase their capacities through refurbishing, most new construction that occurred after the 1979 partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania had been approved prior to the incident. […]

Henry A. Giroux | Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University

October 31, 2013 · by · in corporate empire, corporate media empire, Corporatism/Capitalism, U.S. Economy

“The University is a critical institution or it is nothing.” – Stuart Hall By Henry A Giroux  Tuesday, 29 October 2013  Truthout | Op-Ed (Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) I want to begin with the words of the late African-American poet, Audre Lourde, who was in her time a formidable writer, educator, feminist, gay rights activist and public intellectual who […]