The colonial relationship was reasonably straightforward. The empire dictated terms to the colony, and the colonial administration carried out the orders. The neo-colonial relationship is somewhat more complicated.

Uhuru Kenyatta's disputed election to the presidency of Kenya earlier this month raises a host of questions regarding its legality, Kenyatta's indictment at the International Criminal Court (ICC), and whether Kenya will become isolated as a result.

India, you can look but don't even dream about getting the Koh-i-noor back. Instead David Cameron has given India a parting gift -- a post-colonial word -- returnism.

The Obama administration should nevertheless carefully evaluate its relationship with India in the next four years and beware of the unintentional but often hazardous consequences of Great Power politics.

As a refugee from Vietnam, a country colonized by the French and then fought over by the Americans and the Soviet Union, I see the Obama presidency as spelling the end of a 500-year-old colonial curse.

With neighboring Syria imploding, tensions with Iran mounting, and Israel ever threatening, Lebanon appears to be on the brink of conflict. While this has been Lebanon's story for decades now, it need not be its fate.

If more than one of these apply to your print, online or broadcast journalism source, you're probably not getting your information from the most reliable place.

The get-out is already being set up by the U.S. military and its political outriders in Washington.

Or do the French rule Algeria? The Portuguese, Angola? The Italians, Libya?