Pepper Spray Nation

Paul Rosenberg suggests that the incident at University of California (Davis) in which peaceful protesters had their faces pepper-sprayed at point blank range by a police officer exemplifies the “raw brutality” that underpins “a decades-long story” of the neoliberal state:  the suppression of free speech and political demonstration; the growth of a massive prison system and police repression, especially among communities of colour; and the substitution of no-strings-attached student tuition fees for state-guided funding of universities. While California’s tax rates are lower for the richest 1% than for the state’s poorest 20%, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who ordered the police to suppress the campus protests, represents one of many college administrators who have become, according to Rosenberg, “overpaid operatives of the 1%, whose orientations are utterly divorced from the spirit of public service.” Exposing the difference between real-world markets (oligopoly capitalism) and the myth of the competitive free market, Rosenberg’s economic argument in support of public subsidies for higher education is undeniable

Now There is no difference between Egypt and USA