Military-Industrial-Academic Complex

Florida International University Hires Failed Venezuelan Coup Plotter as Visiting Professor at Adam Smith Center For Economic Freedom

The CIA has long had a presence on American college campuses—whether as recruiters or in political science and Russian Studies Departments. Foreign CIA assets or political leaders or intellectuals receiving funding from the National Endowment For Democracy (NED), which finances propaganda, have been frequently appointed to faculty positions at prestigious universities. Kanan Makyia, author of […]

Columbia University Appoints as New Professor a War Lover with No Academic Credentials that Gloated When Libya’s Leader Was Lynched

Some Great Role Model for Students That Hillary Clinton Is! In his 1923 book The Goose-Step, renowned muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair examined the consequences of plutocratic capitalist control of American colleges and universities, writing that “our educational system is not a public service, but an instrument of special privilege; its purpose is not to further the welfare of […]

Harvard Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review Promotes Its Own Misinformation

Denigration of Conspiracy Theorists Is Right Out of the CIA’s Playbook In January 2020, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy inaugurated a new online peer reviewed academic journal titled Misinformation Review. The journal’s co-founding editors were Matthew Baum, the Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications at the Shorenstein Center […]

The Pentagon Has Been Recolonizing University Campuses—Why Aren’t More Students Protesting?

Once upon a time getting a college degree meant reading classic literature and philosophy, learning about history and politics, studying mathematics and science, learning new languages, and debating the great issues of the day in student forums. The billionaire class and Pentagon, however, do not want young people to think critically, or to be worldly […]

While Its Humanities Programs Suffer From Budget Cuts, Purdue University Increases Focus on Military

CAM End of School Year Special on the Military-Industrial Academic Complex Instead of advancing critical thinking and cultural awareness and […]
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