Slam Poetry of The Streets: Omar Musa at TEDxSydney. Cornel West: Australia is on the path to US-style fascism. “This is a blessing for me,” Cornel West says at the start of our interview, calling me brother, though we’ve never met.
This isn’t to single me out: he calls everyone that, from David Letterman to right-wing pundit Sean Hannity. It’s intrinsic to the black prophetic tradition he comes from and continually calls on – the American academic called his latest book Black Prophetic Fire. And the 61-year-old professor, philosopher, preacher and poet is nothing if not fiery, as evidenced by his Monday night appearance on ABC’s Q&A. West is in Australia for a series of lectures, his first visit as a public speaker and agitator for racial and economic justice (he did visit Sydney once before, under the radar, to act in the Matrix sequels). He comes “to listen and learn, get a sense of what’s going on in Australia,” he says, and “to say what I can and do what I can to cast some light on what I think is going on in the American empire … so we can learn from each other.”
Professor Emeritus of Economics. Who was Henry George? Henry George was a popular economic philosopher in the late 19th Century.
His book Progress & Poverty stormed the world in the 1880’s by taking David Ricardo’s Law of Rent to its logical conclusion. George spelt out how current land ownership laws allow a pyramid society for the rich to live off the poor. His simple but emotionally inspired writings alerted the people to this travesty. He also provided a solution. This led to a worldwide Georgist movement. Henry George was the first economist to demonstrate that taxes based on resources – which he called land tax, or the ‘single tax’ – produced the greatest prosperity with the least adverse effects. Naturally, proposing to tax resources upset the wealthy elite of his day and so he was bitterly opposed. People like Albert Einstein, Alfred Deakin and Henry Ford saw George as one of the most important intellectuals of the Classical era. He gained such support by making economics understandable to the average person. Mason Gaffney's Website.
Salon Radio: Remi Brulin Transcript. Glenn Greenwald: My guest today on Salon Radio is Rémi Brulin, who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at NYU, and is currently working on and close to finishing his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The US Discourse on Terrorism Since 1945, and how The New York Times has Covered the Issue of Terrorism, and he is to receive his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in Paris.
This topic is very close to a lot of our most prominent political disputes and much of what I’ve been writing about, so I’m really excited to be able to talk to you about this and I appreciate your taking the time to talk to me today. Remi Brulin: Yes, thanks for having me, Glenn. GG: Let me just begin by asking you to summarize what the focal point of your research has been; you’ve been researching this topic for several years now. What has been the scope of your research, what kinds of things have you been looking at, and what is the general scope of what you’re writing about? Daniel Ellsberg. Thomas Friedman Is What's Still Wrong In America. By Laith Saud December 16, 2014 Thomas Friedman is at it again, displaying all of what is wrong in America.
Upon this week’s release of the CIA Torture report, a report that should make us comprehensively rethink our policies in the Muslim world, Friedman turned the crises into yet another opportunity to lull us into a complacency. The report reveals the waste and lies that have perturbed American politics for ten years. But American pundits, like Friedman, encourage us to continue living the lie. The CIA Torture Report: Raising Questions Currently in Istanbul participating in policy events on the tragedy in Syria, I picked up an international edition of the New York Times. The torture report outlines a decade of cruel abuse on the part of American servicemen and contractors on detainees. First, why torture and pursue more reason to torture? American Media and American Thinking. Gilbert Achcar. Hossein Nasr.
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