"Chemical weapons can very effectively murder masses of people, all while the people using them can be out of harms way with gas masks and such."

Cruise missiles can very effectively murder masses of people, all the while the people using them are safe on a boat in the middle of the sea.

"Chemicals can also effect a wider range of people and do so over an extended period of time. Some chemical weapons cause cancer, which may not be apparent for many many years."

Depleted uranium rounds effect a wider range of people and do so over an extended period of time. They cause cancer and birth defects, which are often not apparent for many years.

"The chemical warfare that we are seeing in Syria is military vs civilians"

All the warfare we are seeing in Syria is military vs. civilian. It is a civil war.

Then why have we been allowing Assad and the rebels to kill each other with machine guns and rockets?

I'm going to assume you are familiar with the works of Freire and the ideas of dialogical pedagogy and praxis.

Your statement:

And a performing education is one which makes the disciples to believe that their existence consists essentially in their ability to use the language, though the language cannot actually form the life of a person.

Leaves me a little confused. Perhaps I am misunderstanding your definition of the phrase "performing education" (which I took as synonymous to praxis). How can practicing the ideas discovered through dialogue lead to confusing that dialogue with action?

>It is not acceptable to allow people to die the way they did.

To me this just seems like tacit endorsement of killing people with machine guns and cruise missiles instead.

Is this articles for real right now?

>In 1940, the average holding period for an investment was seven years, according to William Hutchings of the Financial News. By 2007, that period had shrunk to just five days.

I am surprised it is even that long. Does this exclude all the trading performed by computer algorithms?

edit: I guess that is a 2007 figure. Anyone got similar data for today?

I think I follow you. My input would be that Freire's work did have a very real impact on oppressed people (especially in South America) who studied it. Many "revolutionaries" took their approaches directly from his page. Though I would admit that many of them did not take his message to heart and became no more than sub-oppressers unable to view the world outside the confines of the colonial paradigm of power and control.

Maybe I'm a little more optimistic, but the act of learning how to learn seems to me to be the most powerful change one can affect on those that lack the ability to see outside themselves.