by John Atcheson October 4, 2009 Fear To those of us in the reality based community, watching the tea-baggers, death panelist propagators, birthers and assorted other whackjobs conjure up government fascism out of whole cloth, even as they unwittingly defend the unbridled fascistic behavior of corporations, defies logic. Seeing them this past Summer act out their delusions at town [...]

by Henry A. Giroux September 15, 2009 C. Wright Mills argued 50 years ago that one important measure of the demise of vibrant democracy and the corresponding impoverishment of political life can be found in the increasing inability of a society to translate private troubles to broader public issues. This is an issue that both characterizes and [...]

by Henry A. Giroux September 21, 200 Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear. Hannah Arendt[1] In the current American political landscape, truth is not merely misrepresented or falsified; it is overtly mocked. As is [...]

by John Cory October 3, 2009 Everything old is new again. It may be 2009 but the rhetoric is strictly 1950 when a man held up a sheet of paper and declared, “I have here in my hand a list of names …” Glenn Beck is not original, nor was Joe McCarthy. The “red scare” of McCarthyism was merely [...]

by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval April 3, 2009 Perhaps the economic catastrophe is dissipating the most glaring illusions about the self-regulating market, making global capitalism’s doctrinarians a bit less arrogant, provoking the spectacular conversions of some “leaders” who would urgently like to make us forget their previous blindness. But the catastrophe has not yet brought about the [...]

by Chris Hedges September 28, 2009 There is a scene in “Othello” when the Moor is so consumed by jealousy and rage that he loses the eloquence and poetry that make him the most articulate man in Venice. He turns to the audience, shortly before he murders Desdemona, and sputters, “Goats and monkeys!” Othello fell prey to [...]

Ofrece Chomsky conferencia magistral en la Sala Nezahualcóyotl Todo Estado poderoso descansa en especialistas en apologética, llamados intelectuales Las elecciones en EU, montajes espectaculares por Noam Chomsky 22 de septiembre, 2009 ¿Qué lecciones nos han dejado dos décadas de una realidad mundial unipolar? Noam Chomsky disertó ayer por la tarde largamente sobre esta pregunta y dejó en oídos del auditorio ideas [...]

ver también Resistir nuestra seguridad: los ojos de vidrio Aunque por medio de una red social como Facebook se han reencontrado viejos amigos, hallado familiares perdidos y ex novios (as) han resurgido del olvido, la herramienta virtual surgió como un instrumento para invadir a los seres humanos, más poderoso que los anteriores, que ya no requiere [...]

Hay una resistencia real al imperio; no existen muchos sitios de los que pueda decirse lo mismo La esperanza del cambio anunciada por Barack Obama es sólo una ilusión, considera el escritor por David Brooks, Hermann Bellinghausen y Luis Hernández 21 de septiembre, 2009 América Latina es hoy el lugar más estimulante del mundo, dice Noam Chomsky. Hay aquí [...]

ver también Colombia: Los espías de la Presidencia y Las actas de la seguridad democrática Colombia tendrá una nueva agencia que se dedicará exclusivamente a inteligencia estratégica y contrainteligencia. Presidente pedirá facultades extraordinarias al Congreso para hacerla. por Semana 18 de septiembre, 2009 Luego de sonados escándalos de interceptación de teléfonos a políticos y magistrados, y de seguimientos ilegales [...]