Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Cornel West @ Aljazeera America

Professor West talks about poverty in America and lack  of transformative leadership. Yet what matters  isn't as difficult as rocket science. It's a good education and  access to opportunities for gainful jobs. But there's serious attack on public education which  still is the only means to an education for the majority of the people.

 Privatization of education's  getting serious consideration in  the U.S. because of  the philosophy  that education can be managed well if  a business model  is used in its  funding.  This's  a mere channeling of   tax payers money to  people  who mightn't  facilitate a world class education as claimed.

In this talk show,  the rich  get  richer and the poor  can't eve get a descent education  according to  Prof West.   War on American public education he says has been  on but never has it gained credence as it has at moment.

The man in the black suit(he calls  it the death ready uniform)speaks as usual passionately and combatively .

See the interview with Aljazeera America's  David Shuster .. Monday August 26, 2013 . 

 Other interesting links on  Dr West are as follows. 





Friday, August 16, 2013

Egyptian Crisis

Egypt's undergoing terrible upheaval as we watch.  While it's  up to the Egyptians and the Arab world to resolve this problem, the International community has a role to play.  Egypt's  significance in geo- political issues in the world today remains though its potential to sink to a failed state is obvious now.  The following links contain important information .