Imperialism

Empires: Individuals in Search of Society

Marc Lafia | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Nation-State, Empire, Toni Negri, Michael Hardt, Documentary, Globalization, Empires, Imperialism, Culture News

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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On the Obligatory Picture With Brown Babies: A Critique of Colonialism, Cuteness, Study Abroad and Facebook

Emily Schorr Lesnick | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Facebook Photos, Colonialism, Imperialism, Facebook, Study Abroad Photos, Study Abroad, Culture News

These pictures have become a staple of travel photo albums and a ritual for the traveler, a documentation of a privileged and condescending gaze upon a small, politicized body.

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A Passage to Kabul

Franz-Stefan Gady | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, US Military, Isaf, Afghanistan, British Raj, European Union, US Foreign Policy, Imperialism, E.M. Forster, Counterinsurgency, Obama Afghanistan War, World News

A recent reading of E. M. Forster's novel, A Passage to India, prompted me to reflect on the West's drawn out engagement in Afghanistan. The centerpi...

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Bad News: History Repeats Itself

Pat LaMarche | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Lithium-Ion Battery, Native Americans, Washington State, Afghanistan, Natural Resources, Imperialism, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Washington state has a lot in common with Afghanistan. Both are rich in natural resources and both were -- for centuries -- populated by tribal peoples.

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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

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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Book Review: Death by China: Confronting the Dragon

Chriss Street | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Death by China, China, Chinese, Cowardly, Yangtze, European Food Safety Administration, Disease, Greg Autry, Re-Claim, Mercury, Predatory, Yuck Factor, Woozy, Bacteria, Imperialism, Food and Drug Administration, Peter Navarro, Dysfunctional, Books News

This highly entertaining book serves as not only a riotous call to arms, but a roadmap for Americans to re-claim the 21st century as their own.

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Ramen Is Racist

Anneli Rufus | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Eat, Nissin, Bowl, Chinese, Ramen, Tokyo, Yokohama, Top Ramen, Ozumo, Noodles, Seattle Weekly, World War II, Broth, Comfort Food, Racism, Food, Japanese, Japan, Soup, Imperialism, China, Food News

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Sleepwalking Into the Imperial Dark: What It Feels Like When a Superpower Runs Off the Tracks

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: US Wars, US Foreign Policy, Imperial Power, US Superpower, Imperialism, US Imperial Power, US Libya, War on Terror, US Decline, Politics News

Have you noticed how repetitiously our president and others insist that we are "the greatest nation on Earth"? When the U.S. was actually "the greatest," no one needed to say it over and over again.

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Obama in Libya: The Horror! The Horror!

Cody Gault | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Gaddafi, North Africa, Middle East, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Air Strikes, Imperialism, Barack Obama, Libya Protests, World News

When I listened earlier this week to Obama's speech on the Libyan intervention, my thoughts kept drifting to Joseph Conrad's unforgettable description of a late-nineteenth century colonialist warship shelling the African coastline.

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Libyan War and the Emperor's Moral Clothes

Dr. Faheem Younus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Sudan, Africa, War, Libya, Obama, Imperialism, Muslim, Moral, Foreign Policy, Politics News

The problem with a moral argument for intervention in Libya is not only that the country we go to war for doesn't get it, or that the world at large doesn't get it, but also that a majority of Americans don't get it.

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Glen Ford: American Imperialism is Unraveling (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Economic Crisis, African-Americans, Barack Obama, Glen Ford, Banks, Blacks, Imperialism, American, Politics News

Glen Ford worked as a Network Broadcast Journalist in Washington DC and created in 1977 along with Peter Gamble, America's Black Forum which was the first nationally syndicated black news interview program on commercial television.

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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

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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Gaddafi's Mind: A Political Psychology Perspective

Tijana Milosevic | Posted 05.25.2011

Gaddafi's statements are not a mere propaganda attempt and he honestly believes in what he is saying.

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Glen Ford: American Imperialism Is Unraveling (Part 1)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: African-Americans, Economic Crisis, Blacks, Banks, Imperialism, American, Barack Obama, Glen Ford, Finance Capitalism, President Obama, Politics News

Glen Ford worked as a network broadcast journalist in Washington, D.C., and created in 1977, along with Peter Gamble, America's Black Forum, which was the first nationally-syndicated black news interview program on commercial television.

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The Dragon, the Elephant, and Regulated Capitalism: Sober Reflections on the Awakening of the East in the New Millennium

Lama Surya Das | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalism, Communism, Far East, Capitalism, Imperialism, World News

President Obama was in the Far East not long ago, which reminded me of my decades there and how much things have changed in what we used to call the Third World and developing countries. And yet, change is the rule.

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North Korea Wishes You a Gloriously Superior Merry Christmas

Doug Lieblich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yeonpyeong, Cheonan Sinking, Nuclear Weapons, Gingerbread, War, Christmas, Santa Claus, Presents, Kim Jong Il, Imperialism, North Korea, Comedy News

Some people call me a Grinch; others call me a Scrooge. Those people have been killed.

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Slouching Towards Tyranny

Bruce Fein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Revolution, Law, Civil Liberties, Philosophy, Cia, Homeland Security Committee, Material Assistance, President Obama, Fbi, Founding Fathers, War Crimes, Kidnapping, National Security, President Bush, Imperialism, Constitution, Predator Drones, Peter King, US Constitution, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Pakistan, State Secrets, United States, Empire, Military Commissions, Patriot Act, Bagram, Counterterrorism, Edward Gibbon, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Hessians, Politics News

The state of civil liberties and national security in the United States is alarming. In the American Empire, the former are routinely crippled or lacerated in the false name of the latter.

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WikiLeaks Cables on Western Sahara Show Role of Ideology in State Department

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Foreign Policy, Foreign Service, Morocco, Wikileaks, State Department, Western Sahara, Wikileaks Cablegate, Communism, WikiLeaks Cables, Mohammed Mossedegh, Imperialism, Jacobo Arbenz, World News

It would be a mistake to assume the interpretations of events by State Department personnel are accurate reflections of reality. They see the world from inside the prism of a hegemonic power.

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The Stimulus Package in Kabul (I Was Delusional -- I Thought One Monster 'Embassy' Was the End of It)

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kabul, Iraq War, Imperialism, Berger Devine Yaeger, American Imperialism, Afghanistan War, Iraq Drawdown, World News

Few in the U.S. notice the stimulus package in Kabul, Islamabad, Baghdad, and elsewhere is going great guns. Nowhere is it clear that Washington is committed to packing up its tents, abandoning its billion-dollar monuments, and coming home.

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Iran: The Anti-Imperialist Ruse

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bolivia, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Press Freedom, Evo Morales, Imperialism, Ahmadinejad, World News

By Tala Dowlatshahi The recent call by Secretary of State Clinton to sanction eight of the highest ranking Iranian officials ranging from the Interio...

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Rebuilding Haiti: The Job Everybody and Nobody Wants

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

As civil society groups try to figure out where they fit into Haiti's quest for "development," movements for workers' rights are emerging as a counterweight to the aid agencies often associated with oppressive neo-imperialism.

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Paul Gauguin, In Search of the Primitive: Jacques Jouet's Savage

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Primitivism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Postmodern Fiction, Manet, Experimental Fiction, Imperialism, Colonization, Dalkey Archive Press, Jacques Jouet, Civilization, Paul Gauguin, Books News

Savage is highly successful, morally anchored experimental fiction. Jouet provokes fundamental rethinking of the permanent questions about the West's relation to its "savage" other.

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William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs" (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

William Dalrymple is drawing on a deep well of personal and imperial history in his stark clarification of our American comeuppance in Afghanistan. ...

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Bromwich Channels Edmund Burke: "America is out of itself" (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yale University, David Bromwich, Christopher Lydon, Literature, Bromwich, Conservatives, Barack Obama, Guantanamo, Edmund Burke, Obama, Democrats, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, India, France, Afghanistan, England, President Obama, War, Violence, History, Liberty, Nonviolence, East India Company, Character, Obama Character, Imperialism, Iraq, Tea Party, Bill Buckley, Impeachment, George Bush, George W. Bush, Warren Hastings, Limits of Power, Post-9/11, George Bush Barack Obama, Politics News

David Bromwich is channeling the lost conservative voice of Edmund Burke, the missing wisdom on our mad Afghanistan misadventure.

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Minimum Wage, and Controversy, Reaches Distant U.S. Islands

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Samoa, Global Recession, Labor, Human Rights, Pacific Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Pacific Ocean, Organized Labor, Neocolonialism, Imperialism, Unions, Postcolonialism, Global Economic Crisis, Politics News

The 2007 increase in the minimum wage was a modest boost for America's low-wage labor force, but it's making a far bigger splash in the Pacific Ocean, on two remote outposts of the American empire.

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