Michael Barker
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, May 21, 2013 0:00 - 2 Comments
Comment | Dark Homes: Inside the world’s most expensive residence
One Hyde Park, in the heart of London, is considered to be the world’s most expensive residential building. Beneath the glittery surface, however, a snapshot of its owners and residents can tell us a great deal about the nature of modern capitalism.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Monday, December 17, 2012 0:00 - 2 Comments
On Corporate Power | On Environmental Foundations: An Interview with Cory Morningstar
In his latest column Michael Barker interviews Canadian writer and climate change campaigner Cory Morningstar about the debilitating impact liberal philanthropy has had on the environmental movement.
Interviews, New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Wednesday, June 20, 2012 15:00 - 1 Comment
On Corporate Power | Foundations and Social Change: An Interview with Harry Browne
For his latest column, Michael Barker interviews academic and author Harry Browne about the role of philanthropic foundations in journalism, activism and social change.
New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Sunday, May 20, 2012 0:00 - 2 Comments
On Corporate Power | Foundations for Empire: corporate philanthropy and US foreign policy
In his latest column, Michael Barker argues that, far from eradicating poverty and aiding economic development, major US philanthropic foundations have played a key role in undermining efforts to promote a meaningful democratic alternative to capitalism, both at home and abroad.
New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Tuesday, April 3, 2012 12:00 - 1 Comment
On Corporate Power | Of Pink Ribbons and Philanthropy
In this month's column, Michael Barker addresses the commercialisation of the breast cancer movement which, as highlighted in Samantha King's recent book 'Pink Ribbons, Inc', has turned a personal tragedy into a "market-driven industry of survivorship".
New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:00 - 5 Comments
On Corporate Power | White Philanthropy For Black (Mis)education
Michael Barker looks at the central, highly ideological, role played over the past 150 years by US white philanthropists in shaping education policies for blacks, promoting the freedom of the few to exploit others, and the freedom of the many to endure it.
New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:09 - 5 Comments
On Corporate Power | Of Ideology and Philanthropy
In his latest column, Michael Barker examines the anti-democratic nature of liberal philanthropy. As he notes, many of the organisations that regularly challenge the legitimacy of corporate power are in fact often themselves funded by corporate donors.
New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 3:17 - 3 Comments
On Corporate Power | Private Philanthropy Vs Public Education
Michael Barker explores the leading role played by private philanthropic foundations in the accelerating corporatisation of public education. Unless this relationship is understood and its impact resisted, he warns, we could be seeing the end of public education as we know it, with disastrous consequences.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 23, 2011 2:37 - 1 Comment
On Corporate Power | Private Philanthropy Vs Public Education [Footnotes]
The footnotes for the latest essay in the 'On Corporate Power' series.New in Ceasefire, On Corporate Power - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 4:22 - 3 Comments
On Corporate Power | Miseducation and the New Slavery
Ruling class philanthropists have maintained a long history of subsuming educational needs to capitalist growth prerogatives. In his latest column, Michael Barker looks at how industrial education served as “a major force in the subjugation of black labour in the New South” in the United States.
