The USA Is A Criminal State!!!

Fascism. CHEGA! de Falta De Coragem

‘Oxbridge institutions are not alone in owing a tremendous debt to slaves.’ The Bridge of Sighs at St John’s College in Cambridge. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters


As Cambridge investigates its past, it’s time we acknowledged that slavery embedded a racial privilege that exists to this day

By Myriam François for The Guardian

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But Oxbridge institutions are not alone in owing a tremendous debt to slaves. The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership at UCL has created a vast database that shows just how profoundly slavery shaped modern Britain – well beyond its two best-known universities. Among the institutions with a history of slavery, connections are the Bank of England, high-street banks (RBS, Barclays and Lloyds), railway companies, insurance companies and even the Royal Mail. And as these organisations flourished through their use of forced labour, their owners bequeathed part of their huge wealth to some of the UK’s leading cultural institutions, including the National Gallery, the Royal Academy, the Tate, the Victoria & Albert and the British Museum. Visitors to these galleries today are given little or no indication of their murky histories.

Slave-owning planters, and merchants who dealt in slaves and slave produce, were among the richest people in 18th-century Britain. Profits from these activities helped to endow the industrial revolution, Britain’s naval supremacy, and even British capitalism itself. By the late 1700s, slave-generated profits were large enough to have covered up to a third of Britain’s overall investment needs.

But the privileges accrued from slavery were not only economic: prestige properties were built which would be passed down as generational wealth. If you’ve ever marvelled at some of Britain’s stately homes or listed buildings, you should be aware that many of them were built or bought using money derived from slavery. One example is Dodington Park, a beautiful estate, currently owned by British inventor James Dyson, and which was originally built by Christopher Bethell-Codrington, using sums derived at least in part from plantation profits.

Often this wealth translated into political power. Alderman William Beckford, whose father was one of the most powerful men in 18th-century Jamaica, went on to serve as mayor of London. He even kept enslaved Africans to serve him in England. More recently, former prime minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, were both revealed to have slaveowners in their family background. Inherited wealth matters for generations.

Yet, as historian David Olusoga has pointed out, it would be a mistake to think of slave-ownership in the UK as confined to the upper classes. Many middle-class people, “including clergymen, naval personnel and people who had returned from the colonies were also slave-owners”, regarded an enslaved person as “a sound investment”.

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As the Jamaican-American philosopher Charles W Mills points out, while other political ideologies are acknowledged – socialism, capitalism, fascism – we consistently fail to name the ideology that forged global European imperialism: white supremacy.

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Communist!? So What?!

Um parque oferece uma forma inusitada de visitar a montanha, em Zhejiang, província do leste da China. Para subir, os turistas podem dirigir cavalos de madeira elétricos. Depois, eles podem descer conduzindo karts. pic.twitter.com/bu9CG7hWQY

— CRI Português (@criportugues) September 10, 2024

Lunch in Beijing, the small beef hotpot is RMB 25 or $ 3.5, rice 杂粮饭, sour soup酸辣汤, and vegetables are free, you can eat as much as you can. pic.twitter.com/d4jzHaqJa1

— China in Pictures (@tongbingxue) September 10, 2024

Chinese researchers identify bacterial therapy potentially effective in colorectal cancer prevention, treatment https://t.co/oSD4FMrjpG pic.twitter.com/PpGik1SaJq

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) September 10, 2024

The digital infrastructure upon which the modern economy was built is controlled by US government-backed corporate monopolies in almost every country.

China is the only exception. It has its own sovereign tech -- which the US wants to destroy and colonizehttps://t.co/eC6fTBI8in

— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) September 10, 2024

#TrendingNow Foldable chairs and makeshift beds have been provided for pupils to help them enjoy a cozy midday nap at schools in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. #education #school #student pic.twitter.com/hxYniujsm6

— Zhang Meifang (@CGMeifangZhang) September 9, 2024

The western world owes China an apology.#China pic.twitter.com/EDLFze6TKf

— Jason Smith - 上官杰文 (@ShangguanJiewen) September 9, 2024

 

Israel Is The West Doing!!!

Israel did it in 1948
Israel did it in 1956
Israel did it in 1967
Israel did it in 1982
Israel did it in 2002
Israel did it in 2008
Israel did it in 2014
Israel did it in 2021
Israel is currently doing it in 2023-24

76 years of genocide, but Israel is the victim! pic.twitter.com/qOrnM3i5OJ

— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) September 5, 2024

 

Israel's carnage is the West’s doing, led by the USA.
I fear it is a starting point for something way more sinister.
Same as Macron's supposedly stupid move, he wanted to bring the far-right all along. The genocide was planned.

— Deocliciano Okssipin (@Deocliciano) September 6, 2024

It seems the European powers that be never outgrew their imperialist mindsets. They're still so certain about Western supremacy that they're 100% committed to going down with the ship that is the failing US Empire.

— Nathan Shirley (@ComposerShirley) September 6, 2024