I just realized that, from British Columbia’s eastern border, the barbarians are in control all the way to Quebec. Scheer and Kenney, Moe, Pallister and Ford. Two thousand miles of knuckle-draggin’ mouth breathers. We don’t need pipelines. We need a wall. Quebec, come in Quebec. — Public intellectual and McMaster
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The Disaffected Lib: The Fight Against Neoliberal Fascism is Anchored in Memory
Fascism today doesn’t look exactly as it did when it spread through Germany and Italy in the 30s but the foundational elements are alive and well around the world today, including the United States of America. Henry Giroux contends the key to beating back modern neo-fascists rests in historical memory.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Henry Giroux on – Of Course, Trump
American public intellectual, Henry Giroux, sees his homeland about to embark on America’s “Second Gilded Age” dominated by “The Rule of Billionaires and Militarists.” During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump made it clear that he liked the uneducated and that once he assumed the presidency, he would appoint a range
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Politics of Lying, An Essay by Henry Giroux
When it comes to politics and lying the two seem to go hand in glove. We’ve always considered politicians a bit shady, willing to bend the truth to suit their purposes. Yet it can be difficult to distinguish outright lying from differences of opinion, selective perception, variances in grasp and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Vestige of Democracy Remains in the Age of Neoliberalism?
Henry Giroux argues that we must perceive democracy as a culture and shake off the cloak of neoliberalism by which it has been subverted. Excerpts from his essay, “Beyond the Spectacle of Neoliberal Misery and Violence in the Age of Terrorism”: American culture is beset with what I want to call
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: ‘Dinner for two’ for first journalist who dares to explain Conservative ideology
Journalists in the mainstream Canadian media are being intimidated from fully describing the soulless ideology practised by the Harper Conservative government – at least this has been my impression for some time now. Wanting to find out what journalists are really writing about the Tories and neoliberalism, I spent some
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