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Postcolonialism

Staying Critical in Croatia

John Feffer | Posted 04.23.2013 | World
Read More: Women's Rights, Colonialism, Eastern Europe, Croatia, European Union, Europe, Feminism, Postcolonialism, World News, World News
John Feffer

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.

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What's St. Paul's Beef With Oxen? Animal Compassion In Light Of 1 Corinthians 9:9-10

Michael Gilmour | Posted 03.21.2012 | Religion
Read More: St. Paul, New Testament, Biblical Interpretation, The Bible, Jane Austen, Animal Compassion, Slavery, Mansfield Park, Edward Said, Christian Environmentalism, Animals, Postcolonialism, Apostle Paul, Animal Ethics, Albert Schweitzer, Peter Singer, Environment, Scripture Commentary, Green Faith, Religion News
Michael Gilmour

My question is whether or not there is a way to read 1 Corinthians 9:9-10 that does justice to Paul while minimizing bias against nonhuman species among his readers?

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

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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
Michelle Chen

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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Hyderabad, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, India: Crisis

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Politics, India, Telugu, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, Separatism, Tv, Telangana, Postcolonialism, Andhra, Rayalseema, Xenophobia, Save the Rocks, Hyderabad Pubic School, Statehood, Regionalism, Language, Hitech City, Identity, South India, Balkanization, Ndtv, New Indian State, World News
Vamsee Juluri

Hyderabad is the sort of city that makes poets out of ordinary men. It has a history of being home to different sorts of people, accepting them with an easy charm that only Hyderabad knows.

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