Imperialism - Colonialism
Imperialism, state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas. Because it always involves the use of power, whether military force or some subtler form, imperialism has often been considered morally reprehensible, and the term is frequently employed in international propaganda to denounce and discredit an opponent’s foreign policy.
What ‘Downton Abbey’ doesn’t show you: The dark side of life as a servant in Britain’s mansions
In 1879, shortly after starting work at the age of 10 as a servant in a mansion in a suburb of London, Harriet Brown wrote in a letter to her mother: “I am up at half-past five and six every morning and do not go to bed till nearly 12 at night and I feel so tired sometimes I am obliged to have a good cry.
How Plea Bargaining Creates a Permanent Criminal ClassPresident Museveni Apologizes To African Descendants in the United States For Africa's involvement in Slavery |
Do think Slavery was invented by Western Europe and America? Think Again?
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At the height of the British Empire, just after the First World War, an island smaller than Kansas controlled roughly a quarter of the world’s population and landmass. To the architects of this colossus, the largest empire in history, each conquest was a moral achievement.
BRIGHTON, England — Tens of thousands of people protested in British cities in solidarity with those rising up against police brutality against black Americans in the past week. They highlighted similar injustices in Britain. Protesters in the city of Bristol drew connections between a white police officer’s killing of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, and the histories of colonialism and the slave trade. On Sunday, they toppled the statue of Edward Colston, a 17th-century slave trader, trampled over it and rolled it into Bristol Harbor.
The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising, or Yihetuan Movement was an anti-imperialist, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising in China between 1899 and 1901, toward the end of the Qing dynasty.
How Britain stole $45 trillion from India And lied about it.
There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the administration of India was a cost to Britain. So the fact that the empire was sustained for so long - the story goes - was a gesture of Britain's benevolence.
The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class With Brexit, the chumocrats who drew borders from India to Ireland are getting a taste of their own medicine.
Greed as a Weapon: Teaching the Other Iraq War
1953 When Greece Forgave Germany's Debt
When Greece forgave Germany's debt
Germany once benefited from other countries forgiving its debts and should have sympathy for calls to do the same for Greece today.
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This is what they don't teach you about colonization in SchoolMansa Musa - The Sultan of Mali is the Richest Person to Ever Live.
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