Protest to free Palestine! (Answer Indiana, Oct 8 2023) The first pro-Palestine demonstration called after the latest counterattack by a host of Palestinian forces on October 7, endorsed by Students for Justice in Palestine, the ANSWER Coalition and others, put matters very plainly: Today, we witness a historic win for the Palestinian resistance: across land, […]
Reprinted with the permission of the author and Counterpunch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/08/killing-children-the-burdens-of-conscience-and-the-israel-hamas-war/ (image by Banksy) The massacre of innocent people is a serious matter. It is not a thing to be easily forgotten. It is our duty to cherish their memory. (Mahatma Gandhi) Introduction: Morality Divorced from Politics War breeds depravity, and vague appeals to morality give […]
Henry A. Giroux is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. Henry is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, and has written extensively on public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory, winning many awards. His interviews on neoliberalism appear in Truthout. Henry is past co-Editor-in-chief of the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. In 2002 Routledge named him as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period.
That’s great, it starts with an earthquake … are the famous opening tenets to REM’s anthemic stream of political consciousness, ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it’ and within this treatise, the track is appropriated to metaphorically signal the global reverberation and impact of George Floyd’s horrific death at the hands of […]