INDRAJIT—Before I left, I went to a vigil outside the Radcliffe. Led by a Palestinian woman, people sang Palestinian songs and mourned Palestinian names in silence. Everyone tried (and failed) not to weep. I honestly can’t do this anymore, and I definitely can’t do it every day, but it keeps happening, with the support of all of these august institutions. The Al Aqsa Flood has washed away so many illusions since October 7th. Universities, parliaments, journalists, they’re all corrupt, and they’re all in on it. They’ll even beat their own heirs for complaining about it. That’s what I saw in Oxford. Old elites trying to beat the new elites into submission, trying desperately to prevent a new world from being born.
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ANDREA LOBO—While claiming to oppose the corrupt oligarchy, Bukele’s policies have all been tailored to serve its interests and those of its imperialist paymasters on Wall Street. The same handful of inbred families of the local aristocracy have long used the state for one purpose: to protect their wealth and power against the oppressed classes. The ruling elite used it to enslave the indigenous population into semi-feudal estates and armies in the early 1800s. Toward the end of the century, they expropriated peasants to exploit them in the rapidly expanding coffee plantations.
Throughout the 20th century US imperialism and its junior partners in the coffee oligarchy crushed all opposition by installing a series of military dictators and set up death squads that massacred over 100,000 workers, peasants and youth between 1932 and 1992.
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MOATS #345—US Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein explains the reasons why the 2024 election is shaping up as the trifecta for non-duopoly candidates since the uniparty is fielding two pathetically unqualified and technically criminal postulants to the highest office, and ALL major candidates, including Robert Kennedy Jr, are morally disqualified on account of their vociferous support for the genocidal Zionist entity.
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MARGARET KIMBERLEY—(FIRST RUN ON 4 JULY 2012) While Obama and Clinton try to scuttle Kofi Annn’s Syrian peace plan and hint at President Assad’s prosecution before the ICC, the ICC shows its true colors. When Palestinians petitioned the ICC to investigate war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza, they were turned away. Moreno-Ocampo determined that because Palestine has not been recognized by U.N. General Assembly it has no standing to seek justice for the 2,000 people massacred by Israel in 2008 and 2009. The hypocrisy is blatant, and proves that the United States and its allies present the greatest threats to peace in the world.
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RUSSELL DOBULAR—In the end, the arts scene as it exists today and the institutions that support it may have simply become too sclerotic, out of touch, and irrelevant for saving. The future is with activist-artists grown naturally from their communities, using new technologies and platforms to draw attention to concerns and realities that no gatekeeping clique of PMC’s will ever understand or think to explore.
