Open Veins of Latin America video discussion
February 20, 2024
From PressTV, Ken Livingstone, Alan Knight, and Javier Farje discuss Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
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John Marsh, author of Class Dismissed, in Inside Higher Ed
February 20, 2024
In March, the new governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, announced a 2011-12 budget that, when combined with the loss of federal stimulus money, would reduce funding to public schools by $1.2 billion dollars, and funding to higher education by $649 million. My own institution, Pennsylvania State University, stood to lose $169 million, or about 51 percent of its state appropriation. As our president, Graham Spanier, pointed out, such cuts "would be the largest percentage reduction to public higher education in this nation's history."
John Marsh’s op-ed for the NY Daily News
February 20, 2024
It is not every day that the U.S. secretary of education charges a professor with "insulting all of the hardworking teachers, principals and students all across the country." But in the cutthroat world of education reform, the daggers have come out. The professor, Diane Ravitch of NYU - who once shared educational reformers' love for school choice, charter schools and accountability - has in recent years come to oppose them.
The National Science Teachers Association recommends The Science & Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
February 20, 2024
Stephen Jay Gould was a renaissance man of the 20th century. Not only was he a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist but he was known to many readers for his ability to popularize science, interpreting and explaining the intricacies of the field to the lay person.
Mexico's Revolution Then and Now reviewed on Counterfire
February 20, 2024
The first twenty years of the twentieth century were decades of revolution that set the terms of world politics perhaps for the rest of the century. The most familiar events would be the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, but others of world importance include the Chinese revolution of 1911, and the German revolution of 1918-19. To these should be added Mexico's revolution that began in 1910.
Monthly Review Holiday Party
February 20, 1986
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Gerald Horne on People’s Republic, talks to Brian Griffith about the 1776 Counter-Revolution
February 20, 1954
Gerald Horne, author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America and, most recently, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, talks with Brian Griffin, host of People’s Republic about 17th century colonial history.
No More Compromises: We Need Immigration Amnesty Now: David Wilson via Truthout
February 20, 1918
In mid-April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out a six-day operation in the New York metropolitan area, detaining a total of 225 people. ¶ One month later, a young US citizen named Augustina stood in Manhattan’s Foley Square, a few hundred feet from ICE’s regional headquarters, and told a crowd of journalists and supporters how the series of raids—code-named ‘Operation Keep Safe’—had impacted her and her family....
Gerald Coles and Sasha Lilley discuss why better education doesn’t lead to better jobs…
February 20, 1909
What if more education doesn’t lead to more highly paid, skilled jobs? Gerald Coles, educational psychologist and author of Miseducating for the Global Economy, talks with Sasha Lilley of Against the Grain (94.1 KPFA) about our twenty-first-century global economy—and what corporations are doing to prevent our learning about it.
NEW! The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
February 20, 1787
The days of boom and bubble are over, and the time has come to understand the long-term economic reality. Although the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, hopes for a new phase of rapid economic expansion were quickly dashed. Instead, growth has been slow, unemployment has remained high, wages and benefits have seen little improvement, poverty has increased, and the trend toward more inequality of incomes and wealth has continued. It appears that the Great Recession has given way to a period of long-term anemic growth, which Foster and McChesney aptly term the Great Stagnation.