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Higher education itself is being radically redefined by the wealthy privateers and the neo-liberals as a product to be bought and sold at the marketplace, a commodity like a car, a box of bolts, or a toilet, rather than either a right (something fought for by generations) or an intellectual, ethical, and spiritual journey (education as enlightenment and liberation).
Class Conflict 2010
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has lashed out at "extremist neo-liberals" for criticizing his tough stance on dissent, such as jailing journalists and lining the capital with surveillance cameras, which were purchased from a Chinese security company.
In Africa, U.S. Watches China's Rise Peter Wonacott 2011
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For these neo-liberals, at the very least, it provides cover for their policy preferences by providing some sense of a way out for the hopeless future currently presented to us.
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After all that is what the neocons (and now, neo-liberals after Obama's win) want.
Why Are British Troops in Afghanistan? « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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In Turkey the key actors were pro-business Islamists, conservatives, neo-liberals, and right-wing nationalists.
Pepe Escobar: So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World Pepe Escobar 2011
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And, indeed, this is what we get whether we are neo-liberals or not when we stress school as preparation for jobs in a developed country based on economic theories of ever increasing "growth".
James Gee: School Reform Is a Dead End, Unless... James Gee 2011
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A government of incompetents and zealous neo-liberals in hock to a media empire and the whim of banks, led by someone who is more airbrush than flesh.
The optimists of Davos past now face a world whose script has gone awry | Timothy Garton Ash 2011
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Whether it's the leftist Democrats (neo-liberals), rightist Republicans (neo-conservatives) or populist/centrists (currently referred to as "moderates"), we end up with bloated, unconstitutional federal government.
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And, indeed, this is what we get whether we are neo-liberals or not when we stress school as preparation for jobs in a developed country based on economic theories of ever increasing "growth".
James Gee: School Reform Is a Dead End, Unless... James Gee 2011
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In Turkey the key actors were pro-business Islamists, conservatives, neo-liberals, and right-wing nationalists.
Pepe Escobar: So Many Ways to Strut Your Democratic Stuff in a New World Pepe Escobar 2011
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