British Empire

The Road to War in Asia

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Spratly-Islands, Indonesia, Paracel Islands, South China Sea, Berlin-Baghdad Railroad, u.s. Marines, China, British-German Naval Competition, British Empire, Darwin Australia, Otto Von Bismarck, US Navy, Asean, Wilhelm1, World News
Eric Margolis

Clever diplomacy, not more Marines, is the answer. The over-extended American Raj has got to face strategic reality or it risks going the way of the Soviet Empire.

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Droning on in Afghanistan

Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Colonialism, Royal Navy, Pakistan, Bin Laden, British Empire, Afghanistan, India, China, Drones, Gunboats, World News
Sarwar Kashmeri

Today the drone increasingly projects American power and justice in distant lands. Shoot down an American helicopter and you'll soon find a drone buzzing in to settle scores.

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H.G. Wells and Defending the "Restoration Doctrine"

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Winston Churchill, H. G. Wells, Richard Haass, Imperialism, British Empire, Foreign Affairs, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, World News
Franz-Stefan Gady

Michael Singh's parochial critique in Foreign Policy Magazine entitled "'Restoration' is Not an Option: Why America Can't Afford to Lead From Behind",...

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Who Will Drag Us Into the 21st Century?

Harlan Green | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: US-Passport-Holders-by-State, U.S. Empire, Decline-and-Fall-of-the-Roman-Empire, British Empire, Robert Shiller, President Barack Obama, Macro Markets LLC, Grey's Blog, Business News
Harlan Green

It is a struggle between those who have already entered the 21st century and those who are holding back because they are fearful of its faster pace, or have a great nostalgia for a much simpler, older America.

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ReThink Review: The First Grader -- Reading, Writing and Rebellion

Jonathan Kim | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Obama Grandfather Tortured by British, Colonialism, The First Grader, Obama Grandfather, Rethink Reviews, The Oscars, Jonathan Kim, British Empire, The King's Speech, Justin Chadwick, Kimani Maruge, Education, Literacy, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Kenya, Mau Mau Uprising, Oliver Litondo, Jane Obinchu, Oscars, Mau Mau Rebellion, Naomie Harris, Torture, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

The First Grader tells the true story of Kimani Maruge, an 84-year-old veteran of Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising who earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest primary school student.

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Gandhi's Dharma And The West

Rajiv Malhotra | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Gandhi, Sva-Dharma, Svadeshi, Swaraj, Rev. Martin Luther King, Ahimsa, Purva-Paksha, British Empire, Bhagavad Gita, Satyagraha, Hindu Beliefs, Hindu, Gandhi Religion, Gandhi Dharma, Hinduism, Religion News
Rajiv Malhotra

Mahatma Gandhi articulated his sva-dharma ("my dharma") using a few key Sanskrit words that do not have an exact English equivalent. One of these is satya, his practice of truth.

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British Museum Director Fired & Alleged Of Theft

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Artinfo, Treasure, Imperialism, Scandal, Theft, Plunder, British, British Museum, United Kingdom, Gareth Griffiths, Museums, British Empire, British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Art Scandal, Arts News
ARTINFO

Gareth Griffiths has been dismissed from his post as director of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum following accusations that he sold off ite...

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Colonial Britain, Neocolonial America?

Michael Vlahos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Foreign Aid, British Empire, Foreign Policy, President Hosni Mubarak, Bush Administration, Egypt Revolution, Middle East, Egypt, Obama Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak, Torture, Politics News
Michael Vlahos

It's time to confront the truth that even the British Empire's rule in Egypt led to a far more positive and civilized outcome than the despotic parasitism nurtured by the U.S. "alliance relationship" throughout the region.

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Fela!: A Strong Narrator Takes You Far

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afrijka Shrine, Fela Kuti, Sahr Ngaujah, Heroes, Broadway, Theater, Musicals, Kevin Mambo, Fela!, British Empire, Protagonist, Play, Africa, Narrators, Dance, Nigeria, Fela, New York News
Danny Groner

Fela! relies on its narrator to become our leader, our beacon of hope, and our hero for the night.

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Britannia Rules the Ripples?

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sterling Pound, Francis Maude, Britannia, Federation of Small Business, Britain, British Empire, House of Lords, British Airways, UK Financial Investments, Beatlemania, Labour Party, UK Financial Crisis, British Conservative Party, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

The heydays of Beatlemania when the rock scene helped British exports seem a distant memory as Britons suffer the indignities of tightening their belts across increasingly widening girths.

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Historical Fallacies in Afghanistan

David Reidy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, History, Governance, Opium, British Empire, Afghanistan, Gandamak, World News
David Reidy

I find it infuriating when a discussion of strategy in Afghanistan is hijacked by the fallacy that it is an inherently ungovernable zone.

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It's the Balance of Power, Stupid!

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Netanyahu, Geo-Politics, Winston Churchill, Empire, Ahmadinejad, Afghanistan, Recognition Lag, Balance of Power, President Obama, Iran, Iraq, NeoCon Foreign Policy, Karzai, President George W. Bush, British Empire, Obama Foreign Policy, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The U.S.' clout may be slipping in the global arena. And yet no one wants to admit it. A failure to do so led to the end of the British Empire, and could mean the same for the U.S.

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