by Oui
Wed Apr 16th, 2025 at 08:07:55 AM EST
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Harvard slapped with $2.3 bln funding freeze after rejecting Trump demands
Trump's Harvard Demands / Letter
White House press briefing:
"We have the anti-semitism tax ... eh task force which the President promised and delivered on ..."
Who Is on Trump's Antisemitism Task Force?
Beginning on May 10, 1933, Nazi-dominated student groups carried out public burnings of books they claimed were "un-German." The book burnings took place in 34 university towns and cities. Works of prominent Jewish, liberal, and leftist writers ended up in the bonfires. The book burnings stood as a powerful symbol of Nazi intolerance and censorship.
Columbia University's complex history with student protest echoes into today | AP News Archive |
Under Nixon the anti-protest led to a new low for law enforcement ...
I survived the Kent State shootings. Why use force against college protests?
Abducted by masked men in plain clothes ... "freedom" in America NWO
Exclusive footage: Columbia student and Palestinian Mohsen Madawi was just arrested during a visit to the immigration office here in Colchester, VT. More to follow. Footage by: Christopher Helali
Trump escalates fight with more sanctions promised ... hell We rule the world ... wtf is Harvard anyhow?
Losing its tax exempt status and considered a political entity ..
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The Trump administration has frozen more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard University after the school refused to comply with their demands. NBC News' Garrett Haake reports more from the White House. Harvard Law School Professor Andrew Manuel Crespo joins José Díaz-Balart to share his reaction.
'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': ICE Arrests Palestinian Columbia Protest Leader at urging of Far Right Zionist Betar Org.
A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group Beitar named Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of Palestinian rights defenders, Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Mahdawi, who had held a green card for 10 years, was a leader of protests at Columbia last year where students called for the school to divest from companies that benefit from Israel's policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
As The Intercept reported, immigration authorities scheduled Mahdawi's citizenship test around the time that Mahmoud Khalil, another leader of campus protests at Columbia, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in March.
The appointment, said media critic Sana Saeed, was "a trap to abduct him."
War on Terror Extended to Theatre @Home
A few years ago I was accused of being "anti-American" ... perhaps I was just plainly "pro Freedom" and unapologetic to lay down
Roosevelt on fear, but fear itself ... back to the thirties and another global catastrophe was imminent .. the decades of fascism and totalitarianism.
Inaugural address
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South-American dictatorships overthrow Chilean President Allende starts by arrests of the nation's intelligentsia and education leaders ...
The first 9/11: How the CIA overthrew Chile's democracy (and pillaged its copper)
The Chilean 9/11 in 1973 ...
51 years later, the effects of the US-backed coup in Chile against Allende are still being felt | The Canary |
On September 11, 1973, Chile experienced a violent rupture in its democratic process. Salvador Allende, the first democratically elected Marxist president in South America, was overthrown in a bloody coup led by general Augusto Pinochet, supported by the US and the UK. Fifty-one years later, the echoes of this dark moment in history continue to resonate, exposing the dangers of foreign intervention, imperialism, neoliberalism, and the fragility of democratic sovereignty in the face of Cold War geopolitics.
The US/UK Chilean coup against Allende
Allende's overthrow was not merely the result of internal dissent or economic instability in Chile; it was the calculated outcome of a concerted effort by external powers, particularly the United States, to destabilise his government. For Washington, Allende represented a threat to the interests of multinational corporations and the broader capitalist order it sought to protect in South America.
His rise to power was a symbol of hope for many across the region, promising sweeping reforms to address inequality, poverty, and the concentration of wealth and land ownership. But for US policymakers, Allende's success risked becoming a domino that could encourage other countries in South America to challenge the status quo.
See my recent diaries ...
Trump, Reagan and McCarthyism Return of FEAR
