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Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky
Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky photo story | Shutterstock.com Washington DC based History Teacher Dan Falcone and New York City English Teacher Saul Isaacson sat down with Professor Noam Chomsky to discuss current issues in education and American domestic and foreign policy issues. They also discussed the place of the […]
Silencing America as It Prepares for War
Silencing America as It Prepares for War Orlok | Shutterstock.com Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in […]
Corrupt Elites and the Looting Machine
Corrupt Elites and the Looting Machine Can corruption be controlled by reform or is it so much the essential fuel sustaining political elites that it will only be ended – if it ends at all – by revolutionary change? The answer varies according to which countries one is talking about, but in many – particularly […]
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis With the release of leaked documents from the TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) ‘trade’ deal Greenpeace framed its conclusions more diplomatically than I will: the actions of the U.S. political leadership undertaken at the behest of American corporate ‘leaders’ and their masters in the capitalist class make it among the […]
The Dangers of Free Trade Agreements: TTIP’s Threat to Europe’s Elderly
The Dangers of Free Trade Agreements: TTIP’s Threat to Europe’s Elderly The most obvious approach to look at how European care for the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug treatments and other medical science continues to improve. This kind of projection shows […]
We Can’t Save the Economy Unless We Fix Our Debt Addiction
We Can’t Save the Economy Unless We Fix Our Debt Addiction Our economy has increasingly been financialized, and the result is a sluggish economy and stagnant wages. We need to decide whether to stop the cycle and save the economy at large, or to stay in thrall to our banks and bondholders by leaving the debt […]
Global Warming and the Planetary Boundary
Global Warming and the Planetary Boundary Climate change is on a fast track, a surprisingly fast, very fast track. As such, it’s entirely possible that humanity may be facing the shock of a lifetime, caught off-guard, blindsided by a crumbling ecosystem, spawning tens of thousands of ISIS-like fighters formed into competing gangs struggling for survival. […]
The End of the American Empire
The End of the American Empire I’m here to talk about the end of the American empire. But before I do I want to note that one of our most charming characteristics as Americans is our amnesia. I mean, we are so good at forgetting what we’ve done and where we did it that we […]
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties Last month made five years since the nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan suffered meltdowns. The release of highly toxic radiation from the reactors was enormous, on the level of the Chernobyl disaster a generation earlier. But Fukushima is arguably worse than Chernobyl. There were […]
Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists and the Chernobyl Death Toll
Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists and the Chernobyl Death Toll With few if any exceptions, self-styled pro-nuclear environmentalists peddle misinformation regarding the Chernobyl death toll. Before considering their misinformation, a brief summary of credible positions and scientific studies regarding the Chernobyl cancer death toll (for detail see here). Epidemiological public health studies are of course important but they’re not […]
The Panama Papers Problem
The Panama Papers Problem The Panama tax haven leaks reveal a lot about the lawlessness of the rich, as well as the ideological bias of the western press. “Vladimir Putin’s name appears nowhere, but the corporate media used his image repeatedly to drum up interest in what is an otherwise newsworthy story.” Americans are conspicuous by their […]
Could an Economic Collapse be in Our Near Future?
Could an Economic Collapse be in Our Near Future? Climate scientists and others have in the past few years issued a steady stream of analyses showing that without immediate remedial actions, a disastrous future is headed our way. But is it a four-decade-old study that will prove prescient? That study, issued in the 1972 book The […]
Is This Class Warfare?
Is This Class Warfare? Is there a conspiracy to keep wages from rising or is it just plain-old class warfare? Check out these charts from a recent report by Deutsche Bank and see what you think: (Feeling Underpaid, Zero Hedge) Well, what do you know? Everywhere the global bank cartel has its tentacles, wages are […]
How Politicians Duck the Blame for Terrorism
How Politicians Duck the Blame for Terrorism The capture of Salah Abdeslam, thought to be the sole surviving planner of the Paris massacre, means that the media is focusing once again on the threat of terrorist attack by Islamic State. Questions are asked about why the most wanted man in Europe was able to elude the police […]
Subprime Auto Loans: the Next Shoe to Drop?
Subprime Auto Loans: the Next Shoe to Drop? Booming auto sales have more to do with low rates and easy financing than they do with the urge to buy a new vehicle. In the last few years, car buyers have borrowed nearly $1 trillion to finance new and used autos. Unfortunately, much of that money was lent to borrowers who have less-than-perfect credit and […]
