The other day I was at a hotel watching a news report on NHK over breakfast on Japanese anti-war activists in the U.S. NHK is the quasi state broadcaster which has moved alarmingly to the right as super nationalist PM Abe has appointed revionists and outright fascist apopogists to the broadcaster's governing board.The report in question was about the effots of anti-nuclear … [Read more...] about NHK Hypocrisy: Covering social movements outside Japan, rendering Okinawan base protests and more invisible
Israel Will Now Be Ruled by the Most Extreme Right-Wing Government in Its History
http://portside.org/2015-05-07/israel-will-now-be-ruled-most-extreme-right-wing-government-its-historyAuthor: Zaid JilaniDate of Source: Thursday, May 7, 2015[Justice Minister] Ayalet Shaked has explicitly called [3] for genocide targeting the Palestinians. She believes the "entire Palestinian people is the enemy" and that Israel must destroy its … [Read more...] about Israel Will Now Be Ruled by the Most Extreme Right-Wing Government in Its History
Article 9 Comes to America
Memory Productions, founded by David Rothauser, will premiere their latest film, "Article 9 Comes to America," at the United Nations NPT Conference on May 14, 2015. We are seeking funding to complete editing the one hour documentary featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott, Freeman Dyson, John Dower, Hideki Yoshikawa, Peter Kuznick, Ann Wright and a host of … [Read more...] about Article 9 Comes to America
Teacher Autonomy in the Language Classroom
by Paul ArensonA wide ranging essay on resisting the marketization of education. Choice and empowerment are two words associated with learner autonomy, critical pedagogy and other notions of student-centered teaching. And yet the workplace can be littered with obstacles that limit a teacher’s own autonomy and job satisfaction. Some lay the most blame … [Read more...] about Teacher Autonomy in the Language Classroom
Abe pledges to ‘correct’ the record on wartime sex slaves (David McNeil, Japan Times)
Inada (a right-wing revisionist fanatic-ed.) expressed outrage that students in the U.S. are being taught things that are “completely against fact, that our ancestors were a group of rapists, murderers, and kidnappers.” She added, “This is not an issue of the past. I believe this is an ongoing issue that, for example, violates the human rights of Japanese children living … [Read more...] about Abe pledges to ‘correct’ the record on wartime sex slaves (David McNeil, Japan Times)