The conflict over Columbia U's Gaza Solidarity Encampment pits an Egyptian-born school president against a student movement largely led by Arabs and Muslims protesting Israel's genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip. Goaded by Republican members of Congress and the Israel lobby, Columbia President Manouche Shafik has sicced the NYPD on the protesters, triggering mass arrests and suspensions of students for supposedly "trespassing" on their own campus.
Like so many contemporary Ivy League presidents, Shafik is not a scholar or academic. She currently serves on the board of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, providing a patina of diversity to a supranational global governing entity guided by a single uber-billionaire. Prior to that, Shafik acted as deputy governor of the Bank of England, the UK bank that confiscated Venezuela's gold reserves under orders from the US government in 2019. She has also served in top roles at the IMF and World Bank, where global south debt becomes a point of leverage for Washington and London. Her own journey to the US began as a young child when Egypt's populist President Gamal Abdel-Nasser seized land from her wealthy father.
Shafik owes her entire career to the trans-Atlantic oligarchy, and has no space in which to defy it. She was not appointed as president of Columbia to instill values like critical thinking or academic freedom. She's there to raise hundreds of millions from her wealthy benefactors. Her leadership not only exemplifies the elite corruption of US universities, it exposes the sham of neoliberal diversity politics.
It’s amazing to see the Bush family’s subversive activities against @KenPaxtonTX in Texas fail.
One of my proudest moments as a journalist was enraging the Bush Foundation so much that they emailed me demanding a retraction of a story I had published exposing their collusion with the Chinese Communist Party since it had caused concern among their donors.
We can fight back against the globalists - and win!
All the seats that are heard on TV - in the middle, at the front - are reserved for big GOP donors. Trump pointed that out in 2016 when anyone criticizing Jeb! got booed. The Party establishment connives to maintain control.
"Censors have tried to stop scientific progress before. Now, as then, the pursuit of truth requires scientists and researchers who refuse to cow to puritans, ideologues and activists."
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“I’m a 50-year-old white woman, and I make more than $250,000 a year, and I don’t trust them,” she said. “So, I don’t see how a poor person of color could do so.”
Now It Can Be Said, Masking Edition:
“From a broad public-health standpoint, at the population level, masks work at the margins — maybe 10 percent.”
– Anthony Fauci
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