BREAKING: Professor Danny Shaw Becomes Latest Victim of the Assault on Free Speech
Professor Danny Shaw, former heavyweight boxer and educator, was detained and interrogated by the FBI and DHS at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on August 28, 2024, following his attendance at the Free Palestine Film Festival in London.
Shaw, who was recently fired from NYC’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice for opposing the genocide in Gaza, faced a three-hour grilling by Chicago-based federal agents. The FBI pressed Shaw on his activism at home and abroad, demanding the names of contacts and organizations with which he had worked. Despite requests, Shaw was denied the right to speak with a lawyer and was told he wouldn’t be released until he complied.
Federal agents seized his cell phone, computer, notebooks, and other belongings while bombarding him with questions about his work and personal life.
This comes as Shaw, along with other U.S. educators critical of Israel’s actions, faces doxxing campaigns and widespread censorship on social media, with accounts being shadow-banned, suspended, or removed altogether.
Wow! 🔥 Colombia's first ever left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, shared this powerful statement warning that capitalism is bringing back fascism, and rich Western neocolonial elites treat the peoples of the Global South as "disposable, like the children of Gaza":
"The barbarism of consumption based on the death of others is taking us to an unprecedented rise of fascism, and therefore, to the death of democracy and freedom. It is barbarism, or the Global 1933, as I call it. 1933 was the year Hitler came to power.
"What we see in Palestine will also be the suffering of all of the peoples of the [Global] South.
"The West defends its excessive consumption and its standard of living based on destroying the atmosphere and climate, and to defend it, knowing that it will cause the exodus [of migrants] from the south to the north, and not only of the Palestinian people, it is ready to respond with death.
"It [the West] does not want to transform its economic system - only as far as the market will go to decarbonize it. And it knows that the effort will be minuscule to save life on the planet. Its policy seeks to defend the bubble of consumption of the rich on the planet and not to save humanity, whose majority is disposable to it, like the children of Gaza.
"That is why there are the strong anti-immigration policies, the concentration camps for immigrants, the thousands who died in shipwrecks; that is the reason for the tapón del Darién [the location where many migrants cross from Colombia to Panama]; that is why there are economic blockades of rebel countries.
"The right wing in the West sees the solution to the climate crisis as a 'final solution'; the right once again dreams of Hitler and conquest – the majority of the rich and Aryan peoples of the West and our Latin American oligarchies, who do not see another world to live in other than that of the malls of Florida or Madrid.
"The right-wing forces in the [Global] South use violence; they destroy democracy; they feel, by the North, legitimized to do so. They believe they can kill and commit genocide, they just need the blessing of the world power.
"We are moving into barbarism if we do not change the power. The life of humanity, and especially of the people of the South, depends on the way in which humanity chooses the path to overcome the climate crisis produced by the wealth of the North. Gaza is just the first experiment to deem all of us disposable".
seeing some justifying the nuclear bombing of Japan. To be clear, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killing countless civilians was totally unnecessary militarily. It was done primarily to intimidate the Soviets and gain leverage. Renowned historian Gar Alperovitz:
@zenkov@digitalfoundry@cataferal The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists wants their slogan back. Steppan Bandera is surely proud of the western Intel op to white wash crimes of humanity committed as a means to propagate a proxy war with a global superpower. Thankfully the world is waking up.
@RealPepeEscobar I was taken aback by the accusation of Jeffery Sacks having a part in the privatization of the Russian economy. He's frequently talked publicly about the effort made to help Russia the same way he helped stabilize Poland but was rebuffed by Washington.