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Dangerous Pedagogy in the Age of Casino Capitalism and Religious Fundamentalism

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 1 Mar 2012

Source: Truthout. All over the world, the forces of neoliberalism are on the march, dismantling the historically guaranteed social provisions provided by the welfare state, defining profit-making and market freedoms as the essence of democracy while diminishing civil liberties as part of the alleged “war” against terrorism. Secure in its dystopian vision that there are no alternatives to a market society, [...]

Must See TV: Bill Moyers is Back

Posted by N4CM News 17 Jan 2012

Source: Say What? A great new television series began this weekend. And it won’t just be of interest to those of us already following the broader story behind the damage done by the most anti-environmental Congress in history. Moyers & Company probes a range of the deeper issues about democracy in America by presenting riveting interviews with fascinating thinkers not usually seen on television.

The streets of 2012

Posted by N4CM Features, Freedom of the presss 3 Jan 2012

Source: Al Jazeera. What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began in Tunisia crest in lower Manhattan, or is 2012 likely to see an escalation of the politics of dissent? The answers are alarming, but quite predictable: We are likely to see much greater centralisation of top-down suppression – and a rash of laws around the developed and developing world that [...]

Has America Become an Oligarchy?

Posted by N4CM Features 28 Oct 2011

Source: SPIEGEL Magazine. At first, the outraged members of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York were mainly met with ridicule. They didn’t seem to stand a chance and were judged incapable of going up against their adversaries, Wall Street’s bankers and financial managers, either intellectually or in terms of economic knowledge. “We are the 99 percent,” is the continuing chant of the protestors, who [...]

Change the World, Occupy that Square

Posted by N4CM Features 28 Oct 2011

Source: The Indypendent. The triggers for and demands of the protests reflect the specific conditions within each country, but the movements also exhibit a growing realization that the neoliberal socio-economic model is bankrupt even as it continues to subordinate national politics to the dictates of capital. It is easy to dismiss this democratic upsurge as it has been unable to prevent the further consolidation [...]

Professor explains how economic inequality harms societies

Posted by N4CM Media, Videos 27 Oct 2011

Source: The Raw Story. University of Nottingham professor Richard Wilkinson showed during a recent TEDTalk that economic inequality was associated with the health and basic values of a society. There is no correlation between a country’s economic prosperity and the average lifespan of its citizens, he explained.

OWS: Fighting the politics of illusion

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 26 Oct 2011

Source: Al Jazeera. For three long years since the financial crisis began, American politics has been dominated by the politics of projection, displacement and denial – three basic subconscious ego defence mechanisms that are tremendously powerful in defending the indefensible. On the personal level, such defence mechanisms – analysed by Anna Freud in her 1937 book, The Ego and the [...]

The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch 17 Oct 2011

Source: The Huffington Post. A fundamental war has been waged in this nation since its founding, between progressive forces pushing us forward and regressive forces pulling us backward. We are going to battle once again. Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we’re all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure.

Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

Posted by N4CM Christian Right Watch, Features 4 Sep 2011

Source: Truthout. Undermining Americans’ belief in their own institutions of self-government remains a prime GOP electoral strategy. But if this technique falls short of producing Karl Rove’s dream of 30 years of unchallengeable one-party rule (as all such techniques always fall short of achieving the angry and embittered true believer’s New Jerusalem), there are other even less savory techniques upon which to fall back.

Goodbye Religion? How Godlessness Is Increasing With Each New Generation

Posted by N4CM Belief, Opinion 11 Aug 2011

Source: AlterNet. Something strange is happening to American teenagers. If you believe popular wisdom, young people are apathetic, cynical and jaded; or, they’re supposed to be conformists whose overriding desire is to fit in and be popular. But if you’ve been paying close attention over the past decade, you might have seen any of a growing number of cases that conspicuously defy these stereotypes: stories of teenagers who have strong principles [...]