Henry A. Giroux
Cultural Critic and Public Intellectual
Urban Soldiers Photo by KAZ Vorpal 
[dropcap]H[/dropcap]enry Giroux has a new book coming out in September title “America at War with Itself.” He is concerned about a emergence of a new kind of authoritarianism that we see very clearly with Donald Trump. This manifestation of authoritariansim is somewhat different from the fascism of say WWII Italy. Rather there are things that are distinctly American. Things like how money drives politics and inequality shapes virtually all domestic policy, the militarization of society, and other things. Giroux is not looking at Trump as such, rather the societal changes that have led to an emergence of Trump and others like him.
He was recently interviewed by Max Keiser from RT. That interview is below and comprises the first 13 minutes of the video.
Currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University. His books include: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism (Peter Land 2011), On Critical Pedagogy (Continuum, 2011), Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in the Age of Disposability (Paradigm 2012), Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories and the Culture of Cruelty (Routledge 2012), Youth in Revolt: Reclaiming a Democratic Future (Paradigm 2013). Giroux’s most recent books are America’s Education Deficit and the War on Youth (Monthly Review Press, 2013), are Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education, America’s Disimagination Machine (City Lights) and Higher Education After Neoliberalism (Haymarket) will be published in 2014). He is also a Contributing Editor of Cyrano’s Journal Today / The Greanville Post, and member of Truthout’s Board of Directors and has his own page The Public Intellectual. His web site is www.henryagiroux.com.
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If Mr. Giroux had lived under a fascist regime, he would quickly find that these theories about a fascist USA do not hold. In fact it is likely that a neo-Clintonite administration will indeed exhibit some fascist tendencies. But fascist propaganda assumes a pre-existing condition of national purpose which the US public does not espouse. On the contrary divergent centrifugal tendencies remain as always very strong and prevent public consensus on almost everything, reason why US media propaganda is so very incisive and unrelenting. However despite the US population asserting its phantasmagorical privilege of individualist thought, the underground or fundament… Read more »
American rulers policies are facist and they want to enforce economic ,political ,strategic and militant agenda on the whole the world in the name of new world order . In the adventure millions of innocent people has been killed and deliberately conflicts have been created to divide Muslims . Hillary Clinton holds some what soft corner for Muslims . Whereas Tumps is high profile racist like Nazies and may damage secular and liberal look of America if he wins presidential election .