British Colonialism

Book Blames Colonialism For Birth Of AIDS In Africa

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, British Colonialism, Video, Colonialism, Craig Timberg, Tinderbox, AIDs Epidemic, Daniel Halperin, HIV/AIDS Africa, Aids Origin, Black Voices News

It sounds like a scene out of the 1995 film "Outbreak," but authors Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin are touting some real-life evidence that pinpoin...

Read Whole Story

Kenyans Can Sue British Government Over 1950s Torture, Judge Rules

AP | By JILL LAWLESS | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: British Colonialism, Colonial Kenya, Great Britain Kenya, Kenya, Richard Mccombe, Great Britain, World News

LONDON -- Four elderly Kenyans who claim they were tortured during an anti-colonial rebellion in the 1950s can sue the British government, a judge rul...

Read Whole Story

STOLEN ART: Sotheby's Cancels Sale of Looted Benin Oba Mask

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colonialism, Art, African Masks, British Colonialism, African Art, Nigeria, Oba, Looted Art, Benin, Stolen Art, Sotheby's, West African, Benin Mask, Arts News

Sotheby's has scrapped its February sale of a controversial £4.5m mask believed to have been looted by British forces from 19th-century West Africa. ...

Read Whole Story

Indian Media Replaces Pakistan with China Bogey

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zhou en Lai, Dalai Lama, Jawaharlal Nehru, Tibet, British Colonialism, War Hysteria, India, China, Mcmahon Line, World News
Pinaki Bhattacharya

A series of stories by an Indian news agency about Chinese military intrusions into what is claimed to be Indian territory inflamed the news circles.

Read Post

CNN's Navarrette Gets Iran Wrong

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Ruben Navarrette, Cnn, Obama, cnn.com, Barack Obama, Stephen Kinzer, Sanjeev Bery, Eisenhower, Iranian Democracy, Cia, Ayatollah Khomeini, All the Shah's Men, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, British Colonialism, Iran Protests, Reza Pahlavi, Decolonization, Britain in Iran, John Kerry, Iran Election, Shah of Iran, Operation Ajax, Savak, San Diego Union-Tribune, Ahmadinejad, Dwight Eisenhower, Mossadegh, Navarrette, Media, Shah, Kerry, Khomeini, Bery, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

While tempting, the calls to get tougher with the Iranian government fail to consider the legacy of 25 years of U.S. intervention against Iranian democracy.

Read Post