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Empires

Globaloney, 19th Century Edition

Ian Fletcher | Posted 02.10.2013 | Business
Read More: Colonialism, Global Trade, Free Trade, Thomas Friedman, Empires, Imperialism, Global Free Trade, British Empire, Globalization, Video, Business News
Ian Fletcher

Everyone knows we live in a brave new world of globalization. And like a lot of things that everyone knows, it isn't so. Not only was the globalization of the late 19th century, just as profound as today, it generated a similar class of professional sophists to justify it all.

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Empires: Individuals in Search of Society

Marc Lafia | Posted 07.18.2012 | Home
Read More: Nation-State, Empire, Toni Negri, Michael Hardt, Documentary, Globalization, Empires, Imperialism, Home News
Marc Lafia

The new empire still plays by the games of the old empires: of divisiveness, of scarcity, of might and fear, even while we have never had such abundance and innovation. It is this paradox that our documentary Empires sets out to unravel.

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The Decline Of Empires (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Visualizing Empires Decline, Video, Empires, Decline of Empires Video, World News

This video presents a neat visualization of the evolution of four maritime empires (British, French, Spanish and Portuguese) year-by-year over the cou...

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Afghanistan: Where Empires (US, USSR) Go To Die

Tomdispatch.com | By Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Jihad, Kabul, Bush Administration, Pakistan, President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Ussr, Russia, Afghanistan, United States, Empires, President George W. Bush, Mujahideen, Week in Review, World News

It is now a commonplace -- as a lead article in the New York Times's Week in Review pointed out recently -- that Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empi...

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