Articles by Henry A. Giroux
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Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence
Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Aug 2021
On 6 Aug 1945, the US unleashed an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 140,000 people and destroying 70% of the city instantly. On 9 Aug, another atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimated 70,000 people. The Japanese government stated that the death toll was much higher: close to a half million. The incineration of mostly innocent civilians was buried in official government pronouncements about the victory of the bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Dystopian Plagues and Fascist Politics in the Age of Trump: Finding Hope in the Darkness
Henry A. Giroux | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
4 Oct 2020 – Reality now resembles a dystopian world that could only be imagined as a harrowing work of fiction or biting political commentary. The works of George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and Sinclair Lewis now appear as an understatement in a world marked by horrifying political horizons — a world in which authoritarian and medical pandemics merge.
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Henry A. Giroux - Tikkun Magazine,
1 May 2017
It is impossible to imagine the damage Trump and his white nationalists, economic fundamentalists, and white supremacists friends will do to civil liberties, the social contract, the planet, and life itself in the next few years. Rather than address climate change, the threat of nuclear war, galloping inequality, the elimination of public goods, Trump and his vicious acolytes have accelerated the threats faced by these growing dangers.
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Henry A. Giroux | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt
Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich
Henry A. Giroux - Truthout,
29 Nov 2010
At a time when memory is being erased and the political relevance of education is dismissed in the language of measurement and quantification, it is all the more important to remember the legacy and work of Paulo Freire. Freire is one of the most important educators of the 20th century and is considered one of the most important theorists of “critical pedagogy” – the educational movement guided by both passion and principle to help students develop a consciousness of freedom, recognize authoritarian tendencies, empower the imagination, connect knowledge and truth to power and learn to read both the word and the world as part of a broader struggle for agency, justice and democracy.
→ read full articleTORTURED MEMORIES AND THE CULTURE OF WAR
Henry A. Giroux - Truthout,
2 Nov 2009
This article is drawn from Henry A. Giroux’s forthcoming book, "Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror" (Paradigm Publishers, 2010). For the last decade, we have lived through a historical period in which the United States relinquished its tenuous claim to democracy. The frames through which democracy apprehends the lives of others […]
→ read full articleAGAINST THE MILITARIZED ACADEMY
Henry A. Giroux,
20 Nov 2008
While there is an ongoing discussion about what shape the military-industrial complex will take under an Obama presidency, what is often left out of this analysis is the intrusion of the military into higher education. One example of the increasingly intensified and expansive symbiosis between the military-industrial complex and academia was on full display […]
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