A Conversation on our "Nihilistic Age" (tags)
As religious authority wanes, fundamental values—including the very value of truth—don’t die, but rather lose their absolute status and go a little haywire as a result... When the value of values declines, values don’t vanish but become trivial, fungible, instrumentalizable.
How the economic doctrine of salvation is changing education (tags)
Economy always takes place in social contexts - even more: It is itself a result of social contexts. In this respect, a discussion in the context of sociology, culture or politics is essential. However, this insight is already missing in academic economics.
St. Yitzhak Rabin Day is Coming to Israel Again… (tags)
Leftist Repression in Israel Against Jews
“Censoring Palestine” event at UC Berkeley (tags)
Report on UC Berkeley Event: Censoring Palestine at the University and Academic Freedom at the Crossroads, March, 6, 2015, Boalt Law School- “Censoring Palestine” Event at UC Berkeley claims denial of free speech from perch at prestigious taxpayer-funded venue
Salaita Sues University of Illinois (tags)
academia
Academic Groups For and Against BDS (tags)
Israel
Against our highest principles (tags)
Students and labor in solidarity against #BDS
Labor Solidarity Demands a “No” Vote on Israel Boycott (tags)
The AAF currently consists of over 120 liberal and progressive scholars, affiliated with The Third Narrative, who are dedicated to combating academic boycotts and blacklists, defending freedom of expression and promoting empathy and civility in the debate over Israelis and Palestinians.
Firestorm Over Steven Salaita's Sacking (tags)
Israel
Steven Salaita Goes Public (tags)
Israel
Steven Salaita's Academic Lynching (tags)
Israel
SFSU professor Rabab Abdulhadi supports terror (tags)
Professor accused of meeting with terror groups on state university’s dime
Unconstitutional Protect Academic Freedom Act (tags)
police state
US Universities of Shame (tags)
Israel
Academic freedom demands we reject the American Studies Association resolution (tags)
countering assaults on academic freedom in our schools
US Scholars Endorse Boycotting Israel (tags)
Israel
World Adult Soulmate © - Hollywood Script (tags)
World Adult Soulmate © - Bestselling Romantic Fiction
Meet Noam Chomsky, academic gatekeeper (video) (tags)
Is Noam Chomsky an anarcho-syndicalist or proponent of the Federal Reserve? A fearless political crusader or defender of the Warren Commission JFK orthodoxy? A tireless campaigner for justice or someone who doesn’t care who did 9/11? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we examine some of the subjects that Chomsky would prefer you didn’t think about.
What a one-state solution really means (tags)
Depreiving both the Israelis and the palestinians of the right to self determination in the name of justice
Denis Rancourt's Struggle for Justice (tags)
police state
New York Times Publishes Hate Ad (tags)
media
Aaron Swartz and the Morality of Hoarding Knowledge (tags)
Activist-programmer Aaron Swartz was recently arrested for breaking into an MIT network closet to copy academic journals from the JSTOR system.
Targeting Professor Terri Ginsberg's Academic and Speech Freedoms (tags)
persecution
Yet Another Gay/Queer ?History? Book Perpetuates Old Myths (tags)
Yet another so-called ?Gay history? book, Michael Bronski?s ?A Queer History of the United States,? recycles the tired New York-centric myth that the Queer Liberation movement sprung full-blown from the Stonewall Inn riots in New York City. Leo E. Laurence, who was present at the REAL creation of Queer liberation in San Francisco in March 1969, three months BEFORE Stonewall, comments on Bronski?s book and offers Lambda Literary Award finalist Gale Whittington?s ?Beyond Normal? as an accurate source for the real birth of Gay Lib.
Growing Thought Control in Israel (tags)
Israeli censorship
Israeli Academic Freedom at Rish (tags)
israeli free expression endangered
University of Ottawa Activist Student Persecutions: The Case of Marc Kelly (tags)
accelerating fascism at University of Ottawa
Targeting Activist University of Ottawa Students (tags)
Endangered academic and speech freedoms
Targeting Academic and Speech Freedoms: The Case of Canadian Professor Denis Rancourt (tags)
academic and speech freedoms endangered
The Lessons of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (tags)
how to stop Israeli crimes
POLITICAL WITCH-HUNT IN THE PHILIPPINES (tags)
The case of Prof. Sarah Raymundo's firing at the University of the Philippines betokens the sharpening political contradictions and hegemonic crisis occurring in what William Blum calls the oldest longest-held colony of the US, currently ruled by the corrupt and brutal Arroyo regime praised by Barack Obama.
Trondheim to boycott Israel (tags)
And expose the use of the word "anti-Semitism" as a political tool.
*PALESTINE:* THIRSTING FOR JUSTICE (tags)
ISRAEL’S CONTROL OF WATER AS A TOOL OF APARTHEID AND MEANS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING
The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics (tags)
"Research on the origin of instabilities, over-investments and subsequent slumps has been considered as an exotic side tract from the academic research agenda.."
UCSB terminates case against Professor (tags)
After withholding recommendation of charges committee, UCSB drops case against Robinson
UCSB Academic Senate to investigate mishandling of Robinson case (tags)
Faculty Legislature votes to examine how charges against sociology professor were handled and recommend policy changes
Faculty members protest investigation of sociology professor (tags)
UC-Santa Barbara professors circulate petition to halt proceedings against William I. Robinson and reject “outside pressures”.
Israel lobby descends on UC- Santa Barbara (tags)
Investigation of sociology professor is frontline in nationwide campaign to silence criticism against Israel on college campuses
Stop the Witch Hunt Against Professor Robinson (tags)
I am a dismayed and concerned Southern California resident writing you to express support for Sociology and Global Studies Professor William I. Robinson. As you may know, Professor Robinson and academic freedom have come under recent attack on the UCSB campus.
Targeting Israel with Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions and Prosecutions (tags)
It's time to hold Israel accountable.
Academic Freedom? Not for Arabs in Israel (tags)
"Honor the Israeli Army Uniform," Lecturer Told
The academic world changes fundamentally when universities are understood as businesses. Rectors become CEOs and researchers and teachers become point chasers through conditioning.
The paradigm defining conventional social science, history, economics, social psychology needs to be changed. This article sets out a few of the needed pieces
Interview with Warren Allen Smith of Philosopedia (tags)
Philosopedia's major purpose is to provide an academic resource for those whose interest is "thinking about thinking," a phrase that is a basic definition of philosophy. In short, Philosopedia is a reference work about academic philosophy.
The Failures of Faculty in Tough Times (tags)
t's possible that this watch-list strategy sprang fresh from the minds of the Young Conservatives of Texas, but it's more likely they were influenced by the national group Students for Academic Freedom and leftist-turned-right-wing-activist David Horowitz. The strategy is simple: Rather than attack specific professors for holding views critical of the dominant culture and its institutions, better to claim that the universities are dominated by these critical intellectuals who are crowding out other perspectives.
9/11 conspiracy 'theories' persist, thrive (tags)
By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer
Roosevelt University fires teacher for allowing questioning of Zionism (tags)
Roosevelt University has fired a religion teacher for allowing students in his class to engage in questioning about Zionism, discussion of Palestine, etc.
Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics (tags)
Critics of state policies exempt from sanction · Narrow vote welcomed by Palestinian groups
Molly Ivins: Pro-Israel 'Nutjobs' on the Attack (tags)
by Molly Ivins
"The United States of Israel?" – by Robert Fisk (tags)
Perhaps the most incendiary paragraph in the essay [The Israel Lobby] - albeit one whose contents have been confirmed in the Israeli press - discusses Israel's pressure on the United States to invade Iraq. "Israeli intelligence officials had given Washington a variety of alarming reports about Iraq's WMD programmes," the two academics write, quoting a retired Israeli general as saying: "Israeli intelligence was a full partner to the picture presented by American and British intelligence regarding Iraq's non-conventional capabilities."
Let's call the Israel lobby THE ISRAEL LOBBY – by MOLLY IVINS (tags)
This is not about conspiracies or plots or fantasies or anti-Semitism -- it's about rational discussion of American interests. Alan Dershowitz, who seems to be easily upset, went totally ballistic...over the mild article ["The Israel Lobby"] by Mearsheimer and Walt, calling them "liars" and "bigots." And, in my case, being pro-Israel. I'm looking forward to hearing from all you [name-calling] *NUTJOBS* again.
Academic Collapse and Bureaucratic Despotism in Argentine Culture. Letter to Kirchner (tags)
In order to reach an international audience the Document has to be written in the english language, and to avoid its contamination with apocryphal signatures a neutral institution like PetitionOnline has to be searched. The lack of a free academic discussion of that deficit --due to a climate of fear-- is not possible within CONICET, neither in the rest of institutions that are concerned with education and culture. The present invitation has been signed by a committee of six members.
Media Attention on Education initiative. SAT/ACT Prep program in search of volunteer tutors, mentors & more
Father of Daniel Pearl Speaks Out! (tags)
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ACADEMIC BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL IS NEEDED (tags)
Academic freedom is central to resolving the conflict.
Petition: Defend Ward Churchill and Protect Academic Freedom (tags)
The American Indian Movement of Colorado supports Ward Churchill with a public petition to the Colorado University Regents. Sign on at www.coloradoaim.org/wardpetition.htm.
In Defense of Academic Freedom: (tags)
The fascism behind the attack against Ward Chruchill
Academic Freedom is Almost a Thing of the Past (tags)
Colorado professor and Indian activist Ward Churchill, threatened with sacking for his outspoken views on the 9-11 attacks, at least has the protection of tenure. For most academics, that kind of protection of free speech is long gone. So is their willingness to take controversial stands.
Fedaral manipulation of higher education (tags)
New bill threatens intellectual freedom in area studies (Thursday, November 6, 2003)
Ministry of Justice giving misleading false statements (tags)
Based on several academic and non academic facts, we may say "Ministry of Justice" stinks.
Kinsey's Kooky, Kinky Shrinks (tags)
This is some really sick stuff. I posted it only because people need to be aware of it.
More Bogus Bush B.S. Revealed (tags)
Following news reports that a senior official at the Homeland Security Department appears to have obtained her academic degrees from an unaccredited diploma mill, several members of Congress are seeking to learn how background checks and security clearances failed to flag the questionable credentials.
We need an academic inn (and wathc the cops give us all tickets for drinking) because we may talk to each other.
Historians pervert U.S. history (tags)
I recently attended the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, the nation's largest, most influential organization of academic historians. What goes on at this meeting eventually makes its way into your child's classroom. I was shocked by what I saw and heard.
Secret UK Dossier Powell Cited at UN: 12-Yr-Old Internet Article By Student (tags)
This story isn't getting a lot of press here, but it's SCREAMING HEADLINES !!! in Europe. It turns out that most of Powell's "secret" info re Iraq was a cut & paste job from a 12 year old article by a California grad student found on the internet,as well as data lifted from Janes Report. Below is the blandest of summaries, but one of the few published in the US. However, ALL OF EUROPE is reading about this! Blair's support of war is being savaged.