Thursday, September 8, 2016

Human Rights Watch: The Empire’s Human Rights Group

Human Rights Watch: The Empire’s Human Rights Group: By Staff of Tele Sur - In its 2016 World report, Human Rights Watch shows how deeply it shares the U.S. government’s concern about its declining influence in Latin America. Executive director Ken R...

Monday, September 5, 2016

The Intellectuals We Abandon (from @Truthdig)

The Intellectuals We Abandon (from @Truthdig): The late political philosopher Sheldon Wolin explicated the mechanisms of control and manipulation used by the powerful. But those who most need to read his work have been left in darkness by an academy that has turned its back on the oppressed and caters to the elites. (Pictured, Wolin and James Baldwin, right.) 
- 2016/09/04

Facing the Anthropocene: The Earth's New Geological Era