By Henry A. Giroux.. Article cross-published with TruthOut [Photo:Protesters march in the Loop March 27, 2013 during a rally to protest the proposed closing of 54 Chicago public schools. (Photo: WBEZ/Robin Amer)] Across the globe, predatory capitalism spreads its gospel of power, greed, commodification, gentrification and inequality. Through the combined forces of a market driven [...]
By Ramzy Baroud It is an event “of cosmic proportions”, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description regarding Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated on May 8 by Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor. Did you like [...]
By Ramzy Baroud [Photo: Garment worker Mohammad Altab moans to rescuers for help while trapped between concrete slabs and next to two corpses. (Photo: AP Video Image)] As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close to [...]
By Mike Whitney. Originally published at OEN. Why are housing prices rising when the home-ownership rate has dropped to its lowest level in 18 years? Actually, it’s not as confusing as it sounds. The Fed’s low interest rates have triggered a flurry of homebuying by Private Equity firms and other speculators which has reduced already-tight [...]
By Grace Walker-Stevenson As our society becomes more aware and educated about systems of oppression and civil rights, a terrifying trend has started to emerge. This trend is cloaked in language that would have us believe that the revolution is over, that equality has been won and that we are now beating a dead horse [...]
By Gary Corseri It was April, 1963, and Martin Luther King, age 34, had five more years to live. And we have now had fifty years to answer his letter. Seven to eight years before, he had come to national prominence as leader of the bus boycott staged by the black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama. [...]
By Ramzy Baroud [Photo: "Palestine Remembered." The invasion of Beit Daras following the last battle in May 1948.] Few with any sense of intellectual or historical integrity would still question the bloody massacre that took place in the village of Deir Yassin 65 years ago, claiming the lives of over 100 innocent Palestinians. Attempts at [...]
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