Stories tagged "imperialism"

"For the past eight years, conservatives have marched in lockstep to defend the indefensible. Just about everything that President Bush and his administration have done has been endlessly praised, defended and echoed. In fact, in their arrogance, Republic

Will the new president and Congress undo the executive-power plays of the Bush era?

Thesis+Antithesis=Synthesis, or Fake BS+more BS=double fake BS. What is Hegelian Dialectic? Read this even if you think you know, and is if your life depended on it, for it does!!!

Libya became first African country to receive apologies and compensation from a former colonial power. Italian PM Berlusconi apologized for damage Italy inflicted during 40 years of colonial rule and signed an agreement to pay $5 billion

First published in July, "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" (Doubleday) by Jane Mayer is still listed among the top 10 nonfiction best-selling books of 2008 by The New York Times.

“If only we had a Republican administration in office, none of this would have happened,” my friend Deroy Murdock emailed me this morning. He meant the nationalization of two large companies, of course, though he could have been talking about a trilli

`Plan Columbia is contributing to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent civillians, destruction of food crops, damage to the health of people and their environment, and further deterioration of human rights.`

A broad movement of campaigners and organizations is calling on everybody to join action against excessive surveillance by governments and businesses. On 11 October 2008, concerned people in many countries will take to the streets, the motto being "Freedo

As details of the larger strategic picture emerge over what is at stake in the Georgia and larger Caucasus crisis, it is becoming clearer that Moscow is not determined to roll back the borders of Stalin and the Cold War of 1948. What Putin and now Medvede

America wants conquest, and look at the stakes. An area from roughly Germany in the West to the Pacific rim. Encompassing Russia, China, the Middle East, and Asian sub-continent. Including about three-fourths of the world's population and an equal amount