In this context, the victory plan that President Zelensky seeks to lay before the President and Congress in Washington can only appear absurd. This is the context in which we propose to discuss a very interesting document, not because it is particularly important, not ...
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a blessing in disguise.” Ponder this shocking statement about Islam or of Islamic imperialism. Yes, it slaughtered more than 200 million people, but Islam brought hundreds of Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Hindu, and Buddhist communities under a single universal vision, that of the Quran. [He...
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Look at the Vietnam era, says every columnist in Christendom, as if the Gaza camp were just another explosion of youthful anti-imperialism. The wilful naivety of this take is unforgivable at this point. To liken Columbia’s strange, seething ‘pro-Palestine’ camp to earlier c...
Camus’ equivocating role during the Algerian War has never stopped igniting controversy. Columbia University historian Edward Said, inCulture and Imperialism, berated Camus for having an “incapacitated colonial sensibility.” Particularly damning for Camus’ critics is the absence of developed...
The aim is clear: “asphyxiating Russia’s economy”, as French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian put it, even if it damages the West. "We are going to wage a total economic and financial war on Russia" declared Bruno Le Maire, French Minister of the Economy and Finance today. ...
imperialism,Oligarchy,poem,war Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ “Freedom is not free,” goes the old bumper sticker slogan, commonly accompanied by an image of a flag or soldiers or some other bullshit. Freedom is not free, the saying goes, because military personnel are out there...
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Like in most other colonies in the Americas, slavery was an important societal norm in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. After the cession of Haiti from Spain to France in 1697, the French used the colony to produce cash crops like coffee and sugarcane. The labor required to grow these...