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- Anti-Netanyahu Rage September 9, 2015
- Dick Cheney's Litany of Lies About the Iran Nuclear Deal September 9, 2015
- Rebooting Hillary September 9, 2015
- Brits Denounce Netanyahu's London Visit September 8, 2015
- Western Logic: War Is Peace September 8, 2015
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The Education Games: Reform as Doublespeak
Although we currently live in a world informed by George Orwell’s dystopian unmasking-as-novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, we seem unable to acknowledge that the Ministry of Peace is actually waging war. In our current education reform debate, educators must come to terms with Orwell’s recognition of the essential nature of political speech: “I have not here been […]
3-minute video: Obama rejects dogmatic, narrow view of the Jedi; chooses wars
video here. “Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.” – Tacitus, Agricola, (98), ch. 30. Translation: “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” - Oxford Revised Translation, Project Gutenberg. Tacitus is quoting the British chief, […]
Thanks to education commentary and policy under President Obama and Secretary of Education Duncan, we don’t have to turn to George Orwell’s brilliant essays on politics and language or his classic 1984 to understand the reality of double-speak. By the end of 2010, the education focus of the Obama administration and the U.S. Department of […]