April 8, 2012
Delusional Milestone By Lawrence Davidson April 08, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Pastor John Hagee’s Christians United For Israel (CUFI) announced the “registration of their millionth member” on 18 March 2012. This organization, founded in 2006, with the goal of “realizing the political potential of tens of millions of evangelical Americans who support Israel” can also [...]
Tags: British Empire, Christians United for Israel, Hagee, International Criminal Court, Israel, John Hagee, Theogony, United Nations General Assembly
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March 23, 2012
Customers queue up to purchase the new iPad 3 at the Apple store in Hong Kong this month. Hong Kongers fear for the future of an orderly queue as more visitors arrive from the mainland. Photograph: Alex Hofford/EPA Hong Kong’s weekend “election” comes against a backdrop of growing cultural antagonism with mainlanders to the north [...]
Tags: Anthony Cheung, Beijing, British Empire, China, Chris Patten, Hong Kong, Hong Kong people, Hong Konger
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March 23, 2012
AFRICOM Report: Combating Chinese Economic Encroachment in Central Africa Written by Nile Bowie Since the time of the British Empire and the manifesto of Cecil Rhodes, the pursuit of treasures on the hopeless continent has demonstrated the expendability of human life. Despite decades of apathy among the primary resource consumers, the increasing reach of social media [...]
Tags: Africa, British Empire, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lord Resistance Army, Uganda, United State, Yoweri Museveni
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March 20, 2012
“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy [...]
Tags: Asia, British Empire, Germany, India, Politics, Raya Dunayevskaya, Reform or Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg
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March 7, 2012
China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global Power Some Lessons from the Past By James Petras March 07, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The study of world power has been blighted by Eurocentric historians who have distorted and ignored the dominant role China played in the world economy between 1100 [...]
Tags: Britain, British Empire, China, Imperialism, middle east, United State, West, World economy
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January 20, 2012
A Captive Nation By William Bowles January 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — There are more young people of working age out of work than at any time in recorded British history according to the latest government figures. I started the current version of my online presence as it were in March of [...]
Tags: Afro-Eurasia, American imperialism, Ayn Rand, British Empire, Brzezinski, Empire, Fabian Society, Grand Chessboard, Iraq, Mackinder, United State, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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December 31, 2011
A Tale of Two Cities: Weimar and Washington by Philip Giraldi, December 29, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Mark Twain is credited with saying that “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Today’s United States is often compared to other historic nations, whether at their prime or about to decline and fall depending on one’s [...]
Tags: Adolf Hitler, British Empire, Germany, Hitler, Nazi, Nazism, United States, Weimar Republic
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December 13, 2011
. Wars Without Victory Equal an America Without Influence For all its military might, the US has failed to get its way in Afghanistan and Iraq, severely denting the prestige of the world’s only superpower by Patrick Cockburn link http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/11The last American troops will withdraw from Iraq in the next three weeks. President Obama and Iraq’s [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Baghdad, Barack Obama, Biden, British Empire, Iraq, Joe Biden, middle east, Nouri al-Maliki, United States
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November 22, 2011
Illustration by Henning Wagenbreth By ALEXANDER STAR Published: November 18, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER LINKEDIN SIGN IN TO E-MAIL PRINT REPRINTS SHARE Ten years after the Taliban’s leaders fled their country in apparent defeat, the war in Afghanistan has become what one observer calls “a perpetually escalating stalemate.” As in Iraq, the United States military has [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Empire, European influence in Afghanistan, Kabul, Pashtun people, Taliban, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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October 19, 2011
Let’s end the myths of Britain’s imperial past A map of c 1900 showing the possessions of the British empire in red. Photograph: Time & Life Pictures David Cameron would have us look back to the days of the British empire with pride. But there is little in the brutal oppression and naked greed [...]
Tags: Britain, British Empire, Conservative, David Cameron, Guardian, middle east, Richard Gott, Tony Blair
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August 17, 2011
The wreckage of Dag Hammarskjöld‘s plane near Ndola, now Zambia. Eyewitnesses claim they saw a second plane fire at the UN chief’s plane. Photograph: TopFoto New evidence has emerged in one of the most enduring mysteries ofUnited Nations and African history, suggesting that the UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld‘s plane was shot down over Northern Rhodesia [...]
Tags: British Empire, Chifubu, Dag Hammarskjöld, Katanga, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, The Guardian, United Nations
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August 13, 2011
Imperialist Freedom by Martin Morse Wooster, Posted August 11, 2011 Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz by Richard H, Immerman. (Princeton University Press; 237 pages); $24.95. There are many reasons to be angry about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but perhaps the most teeth-grating moments of [...]
Tags: American imperialism, Benjamin Franklin, British Empire, George W. Bush, History, John Foster Dulles, John Quincy Adams, Monroe Doctrine, United State, William H. Seward
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August 9, 2011
Defense hawks seem to be hitting Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations like sophomores cramming for an exam. In the last few days, three separate hawks have invoked Smith three separate times to excoriate the potential defense cuts in the phony debt deal. John Bolton, the Bush-era neocon whose mustache makes everything he says more menacing, pulled a [...]
Tags: Adam Smith, American Enterprise Institute, British Empire, David Frum, England, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, National Review, Niccolò Machiavelli, United States
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July 26, 2011
The war in Iraq created another ‘puppet’ regime. (Zoriah.net) By James Petras Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only at the tolerance [...]
Tags: British Empire, History, Imperialism, James Petras, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Osama BinLaden, United State, Warfare and Conflict, World War II
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July 21, 2011
The four Kenyans who were given the go-ahead at the high court to sue the British government over alleged colonial atrocities committed during the Mau Mau uprising. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Four Kenyans who claimed they were tortured at the hands of colonial officials during the Mau Mau insurgency in the 1950s have won the right [...]
Tags: British Empire, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Foreign Office, Government of the United Kingdom, Kenya, Martyn Day, Mau Mau Uprising, Torture
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July 3, 2011
Graveyard of Empires by Eric Margolis Recently by Eric Margolis: Turkey: The Mother of Revolutions In his majestic poem “Recessional,” Rudyard Kipling was writing of the fading British Empire, but his words are as vivid and pertinent today as a century ago: Far-called our navies melt away – On dune and headland sinks the fire – Lo, [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, British Empire, ERIC MARGOLIS, Osama bin Laden, Recessional, Rudyard Kipling, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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July 3, 2011
most Al Jazeera material can be obtained on line via live streaming. There seems to be a problem depending on which server you re using and some inherent problem here and in New Zealand. George Ikners ikners.com link (clickable) to article and video http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/sudanthebreakup/2011/06/2011623122146319770.html Sudan was the giant of Africa which once represented [...]
Tags: Africa, Al Jazeera, British Empire, Christian, Greenwich Mean Time, Muslim, New Zealand, Sudan
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April 12, 2011
Britain can never atone for its colonial past Charles Glass Last Updated: Apr 9, 2011 David Cameron spoke with unusual candour for a British prime minister a few days ago when he told university students in Islamabad: “I don’t want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many [...]
Tags: British Empire, Charles Glass, David Cameron, Pakistan, Palestinian territories, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Suez Canal, United States
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