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How Higher Education Ought to Be
The following is an edited transcript of remarks given by Noam Chomsky via Skype on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA. Prof. Chomsky’s remarks were elicited by questions from Robin Clarke, Adam Davis, David Hoinski, Maria Somma, Robin J. Sowards, Matthew Ussia, and Joshua Zelesnick. The transcript was prepared by Robin J. Sowards and edited by Prof. Chomsky.
On hiring faculty off the tenure track
That’s part of the business model. It’s the same as hiring temps in industry or what they call “associates” at Wal-Mart, employees that aren’t owed benefits. It’s a part of a corporate business model designed to reduce labor costs and to increase labor servility. When universities become corporatized, as has been happening quite systematically over the last generation as part of the general neoliberal assault on the population, their business model means that what matters is the bottom line. The effective owners are the trustees (or the legislature, in the case of state universities), and they want to keep costs down and make sure that labor is docile and obedient. The way to do that is, essentially, temps. Just as the hiring of temps has gone way up in the neoliberal period, you’re getting the same phenomenon in the universities. The idea is to divide society into two groups. One group is sometimes called the “plutonomy” (a term used by Citibank when they were advising their investors on where to invest their funds), the top sector of wealth, globally but concentrated mostly in places like the United States. The other group, the rest of the population, is a “precariat,” living a precarious existence.
Camila Vallejo defiende a Maduro: la derecha y EU están tras la crisis en Venezuela
Santiago de Chile. La ex líder estudiantil chilena Camila Vallejo, actualmente diputada electa, defendió hoy al presidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro y denunció la existencia de una “utilización mediática” de la derecha en la crisis política de ese país.
“Ha habido una utilización mediática en Venezuela, en alianza con grupos de derecha de Venezuela y también con Estados Unidos, por tratar de demostrar que en Venezuela hay una sistemática violación de derechos humanos”, recalcó la líder comunista.
Vallejo, quien encabezó masivas protestas estudiantiles en su país en 2011, dijo no obstante que “si ha habido actos de violencia y represión tienen que ser investigados, como el mismo presidente (Maduro) lo está impulsando”.
The Relationship between Washington and ISIS: The Evidence
Reports that US and British aircraft carrying arms to ISIS have been shot down by Iraqi forces have been met with shock and denial in western countries. Few in the Middle East doubt that Washington is playing a ‘double game’ with its proxy armies in Syria
