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Book Interview with the Author: America’s Education Deficit and the War on Youth

June 19, 2013 / Henry A. Giroux / Books & Films / No Comments

Rather than a reivew, the following are selected quotes from an interview on Truthout with the author, Henry A. Giroux about this important book. Giroux makes a strong and eloquent case that the war on public education is a war on America’s people and the social contract by a cruel neoliberal power structure whose intent is to shift away from […]

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Film Review: The East

June 16, 2013 / Janet Wise (with clip from Mike Scott at NOLA.com) / Books & Films / No Comments

A Sunday afternoon watching  writer-actor Brit Marling and writer-director Zal Batmanglij’s new release, The East, was an enthralling end of the week, or the beginning of a new one. For me, it was both. This is an outstanding film on all points of the measurement scale: a brilliant story, well scripted, a taut thriller delivered […]

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Film and Book Review: The Company We Keep

June 4, 2013 / Janet Wise / Books & Films / No Comments

The Film: As movies come and go with such rapidity in our nation’s theatres these days, Robert Redford’s outstanding The Company You Keep may be gone before the word spreads about just how good this film really is. If it’s playing anywhere near you, don’t miss it. The all-star cast is loaded with acting genius, […]

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Film Review: The Great Gatsby

May 28, 2013 / Janet Wise / Books & Films / No Comments

Baz Luhrmann’s new film release of The Great Gatsby is a déjà vu to our 1920’s past eerily resembling our present. To miss this comparative statement about the divisions within American social class: the over-consumption and decadence of ‘old money’–old, in that those who acquired it through corruption and vice were/are now a few generations in the past, thus […]

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Book Review: “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield”

May 21, 2013 / Janet Wise / Books & Films / No Comments

The Society of Professional Journalists’ preamble begins with: “Members (of the SPJ) believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues. Conscientious journalists from all media […]

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Book Reviews: “America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy”

May 21, 2013 / Janet Wise / Books & Films / No Comments

Zeitgeist Change selects “America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy” as an outstanding 2012 examination and manifesto for change for a future we want for our children and grandchildren. Author Hazel Henderson introduces James Gustave Speth: Author James Gustave Speth is one of the most prominent, knowledgeable, global environmentalists of our time. A quintessential […]

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