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Pope Gets Academic Certification
Accuracy in Academia ^ | September 26, 2015 | Cliff Kincaid

Posted on 09/28/2015 11:09:04 AM PDT by Academiadotorg

[When the Holy Father finds himself on the same page with leading academics, he should worry—ed.] Al Jazeera posted an article, “Bernie Sanders, the pope and the moral imperative of systemic change,” by Gar Alperovitz, the co-chair with James Gustave Speth of The Next System Project. Speth, former administrator of the United Nations Development Program, put his name on its 1994 “Human Development Report,” which openly promoted global taxes for world government.

The “Next System” is another name for the replacement of global capitalism by global socialism.

Those endorsing this project, in addition to Alperovitz and Speth, include:

• Jane Mansbridge, Harvard University

• Gerald Hudson, Service Employees International Union

• Annie Leonard, Greenpeace USA

• Robert B. Reich, University of California at Berkeley

• Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research

• Barbara Ehrenreich, Author

• Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University

• Gerald Torres, Cornell University Law School

• Larry Cohen, Communications Workers of America

• Julie Matthaei, Cornerstone Cohousing

• Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers

• Rep. John James Conyers, Jr., 13th District, Michigan

• Bill McKibben, 350.org

• Saskia Sassen, Columbia University

• Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York

• Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California

• J. Phillip Thompson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Oliver Stone, Academy Award-winning Filmmaker

• Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK

• Timothy E. Wirth, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund

• Sarita Gupta, Jobs With Justice

• Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Van Jones, The Dream Corps & Rebuild The Dream

• Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, California State University

• Daniel Ellsberg, Author

• Herman E. Daly, University of Maryland

• Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate, Author, Former Presidential Candidate

• Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance

• Anna Galland, MoveOn.org Civic Action

• Danny Glover, Actor, Social Activist

• Tom Morello, Musician, Activist

• Jill Stein, 2012 Green Party Presidential Nominee

• Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research

“We have fundamental problems because of fundamental flaws in our economic and political system,” the New Project proclaims. “The crisis now unfolding in so many ways across our country amounts to a systemic crisis. Today’s political economic system is not programmed to secure the wellbeing of people, place and planet. Instead, its priorities are corporate profits, the growth of GDP, and the projection of national power.”

The group goes on, “Large-scale system change is needed but has until recently been constrained by a continuing lack of imagination concerning social, economic and political alternatives. There are alternatives that can lead to the systemic change we need.”

Yes there are. They are called socialism and communism. But they would rather call it “sustainable development,” in order to confuse people about how the American way of life is being targeted for extinction.

Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org . This column is excerpted from an article which appears on the AIM site.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
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when academics are on the same page with the Pope, worry about the book--
1 posted on 09/28/2015 11:09:04 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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To: Academiadotorg

“Next System” sounds like the Fourth Reich or Cultural Revolution Part II


2 posted on 09/28/2015 11:10:57 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Academiadotorg
Certified Global Warming Nutjob.
3 posted on 09/28/2015 11:11:30 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: Academiadotorg

A real Who’s Who of Commies.


4 posted on 09/28/2015 11:14:41 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: GeronL; KC_Lion

Ping.


5 posted on 09/28/2015 11:17:25 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Academiadotorg
When the Holy Father finds himself on the same page with leading academics, WE should worry.

[When the Holy Father finds himself on the same page with leading academics, Catholics should worry.

6 posted on 09/28/2015 11:24:17 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: arthurus

As a Thomistic Catholic, it is really easy to see this pope as an anti-pope, esp. with the unorthodox removal of Pope Benedict XVI.

When you throw out Truth/God (as this “pope” advocates), for the destruction of Free Will (choice) and Virtue (freedom/Justice/Wisdom/Temperance)-—you promote TOTAL DEHUMANIZATION of the people. Socialism, as Solzhenitsyn stated-—even a LITTLE BIT of Socialism rots the Soul. Children raised in socialism has dependence forced into them-—like the Inca’s system of no private property. Worldview of Newton is not possible without Classical Education and the ability to “think critically” is not possible without Knowledge (truth/wisdom of the ages and the Socratic Method and Aristotelian Logic (abstract thinking tools).

“Choice” is what makes us human beings and Reason elevates man above animal. This pope removes REASON for EMOTIONS which leads only to mass conformity which allows elite masters, and you have slavery/socialism—an evil, vile system which herds and controls and culls human beings like they are simply non-thinking cattle.

Numerous popes have written encyclicals on how evil Marxism, Socialism and islam are-—how dehumanizing their system of “beliefs” are which remove Freedom and Choice in ALL aspects of life.

We need to get back to Classically educating our chldren-—remove all the John Dewey system of mass indoctrination (Marxist Lens “history” revisionism—so truth and thinking can’t occur in the majority in the US again, like at the Founding).


7 posted on 09/28/2015 1:39:57 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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