Category: Imperialism
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EU’s Military Strategy to Deepen Mediterranean Tragedies
More than 800 migrants died on April 19 this year when their overcrowded boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. The tragedy sent soaring this year’s Mediterranean … Keep reading »
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New World Re-Ordering
What should we call the current era? Post-everything? Or perhaps, the interregnum? Whatever the name it should be given, the current period is characterized by neoliberal trans-nationalization. In addition, U.S. … Keep reading »
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Hegemony in the Making: Germany on the Way to Becoming a Political Giant
Germany is an economic giant but a political dwarf. Ever since the run-up to the First World War, this thesis has been firmly established in the conservative camp and it … Keep reading »
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Thomas Sankara and Burkina Faso’s ‘Black Spring’
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary by Ernest Harsch, Ohio University Press, 2014, 163 pages, $18.56. A press report in 1983 that a popular uprising in Upper Volta, a small and … Keep reading »
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The United States of America in the AfPak Region and Beyond
War on Terror or Alliance with Islamic Terrorism? It may sound rather odd in the face of the open war on terror that has been raging in Afghanistan and the Middle … Keep reading »
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Nous Sommes Tous Charlie… de Gaulle!
In politics there is a golden rule: beware agreements that cut across all political currents! The tragedy of Charlie Hebdo has been turned into a farce by the mammoth march … Keep reading »
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Imperialism in South Asia and the War Against the People of Pakistan
Campaign Against Drones in Pakistan (CADiP) On March 12, 2014, Canada’s troops formally withdrew from Afghanistan after twelve years of participation in Western military occupation under the banners of the North … Keep reading »
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The Geopolitical Ecology of Empire’s Ally
Jordy Cummings interviews Greg Albo and Jerome Klassen Jordy Cummings (JC): One of the overarching themes of Empire’s Ally in general,and your contribution in particular, is a questioning of the predominant … Keep reading »
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Challenging Harper’s Imperialist Agenda
It has become commonplace to observe that the Conservative government of Stephen Harper has been re-making the symbols and practices of the Canadian state. Canada, in this view, was once … Keep reading »
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‘Ask Afghans what would help them, don’t ask Karzai’
Mike Skinner, co-founder of the Afghanistan-Canadian Research Group and a researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies in Toronto, believes a simple question is being left out … Keep reading »
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Canadian Imperalism Stumbles Onward
Imperialism is obviously not always conducted with the frightening roar and unmistakeable destruction of shock and awe. In such moments does the power and horror of imperialism become crystal clear. … Keep reading »
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Solidarity with Nepal’s Revolutionary People
Toronto, May 13, 2010. View on Blip.tv website Half a million in the Kathmandu streets, a general strike, calls for insurrection. Red flags flying everywhere. Can you smell the smoke … Watch video »