argus, the god-eye
the Argus is practiced compassion
with an eye on you, as one is on me
will the god eye grant his forgiveness,?
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Photo of the Day: A nameless Egyptian demonstrator takes on riot police Superman-style during the second straight day of anti-government protests in Cairo.
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Photo of the Day: A nameless Egyptian demonstrator takes on riot police Superman-style during the second straight day of anti-government protests in Cairo.
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Folks: Caribbean History is American History is World History is Everyone’s History
Folks: Caribbean History is American History is World History is Everyone’s History
Learn something. Then tell your friends.
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“Dia de muertos” (day of the dead) @ the Mexico-US Border in Mexicali BC Mexico border with Calexico CA US.
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This is the book every diasporan Dominican should read if they want to understand how they were made by history. In it our tribe’s greatest intellect Juan Bosch details the personal roots of our bloodiest tyrant, and lays out all the flaws centuries of conquest and colonialism built into our society. Brief and cutting, the work of a brilliant scholar feeling the urgency of the political moment he faced. Shortly after this Bosch became President … and shortly thereafter he was dispatched by the Empire, courtesy of the US Army.
Many diasporans would not be where they are and who they are if Trujillo had not occurred. Lots of us are here precisely because those troops went their to clean up his aftermath. So read at least one book about Trujillo, and make it this one.
The chronicles of the Empire will tend to skip over the history of resistance, whether minor or major. But even if the tribes’ gestures of resistance are recounted as having been futile, you can bet they hurt the bottom line.
Of course, this cold-war fantasizing predates the fall of communism, and it works both ways - in posters such as the one above (this one from 1966), we can see the “fantasy” of the oppressed cogs in capital’s infernal machine discovering Marxist (Maoist?) revolution. Usually the subjects of these pieces were nondescript Africans and Arab-types, but sometimes they braved the ultimate usurpation: Americans. It certainly meant something to show the golden sons and daughters of the Free World called to action by a Chinese slogan; no less so when the central figure is African-American.
There’s something disquieting about images like this. It suggests a hegemony that never was. It feels almost voyeuristic, as if I’m being watched. We’re accustomed to looking at the world through the old “the cold war had a winner” lens that frames everything from the presupposed victory and primacy of capital. We watched the liberation of the East; we saw them acquiring what always came “natural” to us. And this suggests a world in which we’re the ones who needed liberating.
The Empire generally steamrolls the tribes in its path, but its dominance doesn’t mean there was no resistance.
