8 November 2024

America’s Descent Into Fascism Can Be Stopped

[Graphic: Trump Troops by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune, UT (Reprinted with Permission)]

By: Henry A. Giroux
Source: Counterpunch

Editor's Note
In this critical article, Dr. Giroux does a deep analysis and while I would love to write a fully integrated introduction to this work, that is not possible at this time. So I will confine myself to two key areas: the issue of the working class, and some commentary on the Powell Memorandum that Dr. Giroux includes in his analysis.

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4 November 2024

Don’t Be Fooled By Allegations of Immigrants Illegal Voting

[Graphic: National Archive and Records Administration]

By Rowan Wolf

Trump’s megaphone allegations about voter fraud, voting by immigrants, and Democratic “cheating’ lead you astray. There is no there there. The percentage of immigrants who voted illegally from 2000 forward was 30 about of almost a billion ballots. Even the Heritage Foundation database only had 85 ALLEGATIONS (not proven cases) of this type of fraud. The Trump campaign is filing dozens of voting challenges NOW to prepare foundations for cases they plan to challenge the vote after tomorrow.

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22 September 2024

The Necessity of Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times

I think therefore I'm dangerous

[Photo: John Eisenschenk, flickr 2013]

By: Henry A. Giroux
Source: LA Progressive

Editor's Note
Pedagogy is a method and theory of teaching. Critical pedagogy is a method that focuses on context, histories, and experience and looks at the whole person and the environment in which she resides. This perspective is inherently multidimensional and identifies the role of power in the function of interactive paradigms. On the other hand, the (Western) “traditional” pedagogy focuses on skill building and classroom management. Ideas are seen as tools and there tends to be a sense of false objectivity with a tendency towards either one-dimensional and/or binary thinking. It is also inherently hierarchical with the teacher/expert as the sole holder of knowledge.

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11 July 2024

The Dismantling of Democracy: A Grim Projection of American Fascism Under Trump

[Graphic: “Trump Gets Immunity“, Paresh Nath, U.T. Independent, India. (Not public domain, fee paid)]

By: Henry A. Giroux
Source: Counterpunch

Editor's Note
The ruling of the ultra-conservative majority of the Supreme Court regarding Presidential immunity as relates to Donald Trump is clearly pro-Trump. However, it is also fulfilling a long-term goal of Republicans which is the legal enforcement of the concept of the Unitary Executive. I published Revisiting the Concept of Unitary Executive in 2018 which built upon an earlier article I wrote during the George W. Bush Administration in 2006. 

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11 March 2024

Warning: The Great GOP Voter Purge of 2024 Is Underway

[Photo: Voting Rights. Dave WhamondCanada, Political Cartoons.com]

By Thom Hartmann
Source:  CommonDreams

Editor's Note
The Republicans have spent at least 24 years manipulating voter access when the mass purging of Florida voters occurred before the 2000 vote. They even needed the Supreme Court to shut down a recount in Florida thereby selecting George W. Bush as President. SCOTUS stepped in again in 2013 to gut the Voting Rights Act (Shelby v Holder). At this point, there are at least 96 cases across the country aimed at restricting voting in some way. That does not include the efforts to intimidate voters, intimidate poll workers, and move or close polling places.

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