Henry Giroux is an American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. Henry Giroux sits with Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive and explains how liberal education strengthens democracy. You can read the article Henry wrote on this same topic here:

https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/critical-pedagogy-in-dark-times

Today, John Kiriakou is an author and a journalist but not long ago, he was a CIA counterterrorism officer and a senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was in this roll that John became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act – a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his attempts to oppose the Bush administration's torture program. You can find John's writings at http://ConsortiumNews.com, http://johnkiriakou.substack.com and https://www.laprogressive.com/author/john-kiriakou

Professor Richard Wolff sheds light on the role that racism has played as an essential tool for maintaining the capitalist order. Says Wolff, "U.S. capitalism solved its instability problem by making cyclical downturns afflict chiefly a minority subpart of the whole working class." He explains how and why this "feature" has served to keep us all locked in to the inefficient, contradictory system.

Dick Price and Sharon Kyle publish the digital magazine LAProgressive.com. The discussion has here with Rick Wolff stems from an article Rick wrote that was published by the LA Progressive. That article is titled, "How Racism Is an Essential Tool for Maintaining the Capitalist Order"

Rick Wolff's website, Democracy at Work Please visit the LA Progressive if you like this interview -- there's more