The Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan fiascos are a powerful reminder of the moral lapses and human tragedies that the U.S. and some of its allies were responsible for in those countries.” In other words, it is not entirely inconsistent for the “Global South” to both condemn the Russian ...
The United States has been no exception to this process of advanced nations advancing through exploitation of an underclass excluded from the nation. The only difference has been that its underclass was inside the country, not outside. Black men were brought into this country by a people dedicate...
Lie notes that colonized Koreans begrudgingly or even avidly embraced “the colonial masters and their civilization” in a capitulating fashion. There were influential writers like Yi Kwang-su—arguably the first Korean novelist (albeit not my cup of tea)—who claimed that Koreans ought to give ...