The issue is not about raising taxes. The issue is, how do we allocate the wealth that we have? We spend trillions of dollars on a military industria….

You have a situation in which the U.S. is fighting three unjust wars and wasting trillions of dollars in public funds, all the while draining money f….

Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as critically engaged citizen….

Individual interests now trump any consideration of the good of society just as all problems are ultimately laid at the door of the solitary individu….

With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending from ….

It is important to note that Edward Snowden was labeled as a spy not a whistle-blower - even though he exposed the reach of the spy services into the….

Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ violence in ways that make ….

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disp….

Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which pain, humiliat….

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for intense excite….

Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence ….

Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown ….

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life..

When you begin to suggest that dissent, opposition, resistance, the only way to deal with it is not to listen to it and to engage in dialog with it, ….

Everyone is now a potential terrorist..

We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and we need to educate the….

We also need to find a language capable of defending government as an element of the common good, one that does not define itself as both a punishing….

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons..

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy..

Young people, under the social contract, suggest a long term investment. What we have today is a government that believes that young people - since t….

I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated in multiple public spheres..