Contents

Academia

Henry A Giroux
Public Intellectuals, the Politics of Clarity, and the Crisis of Language

Daniel Klimek
Fear and Loathing in the Ivory Tower: On Foreign Policy, Middle East Studies, and Academic Freedom

Dennis Chapman
Learning is Painful: Consumer Students, Lecture Delivery and Administrative Hegemony in "New Academia"

Michael Barker
The Violence of Nonviolence

Little Big Pine
My Professors

Interview

Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes
On Che Guevara: An Interview with Jon Lee Anderson

Varia

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The Vicious Circle of Debt and Depression – It Is a Class War

Kenneth Couesbouc
Choosing Change: Roasted or Fried

Kathy Kelly and Josh Brollier
Unarmed and Courageous: Emergency Workers in Afghanistan

Dennis Loo
From Bush to Obama: Discontinuity or Continuity?

Mats Svensson
Apartheid on Two Continents

Jorge Majfud
Puppets, Puppet Masters, and Closet Liberations