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The New Recolonization of Africa (Version B)
The New Recolonization of Africa (Version A)
The Liberian Limits of Empire (Version A)
The Liberian Limits of Empire (Version B)
The Bush Blair Doctrine
The Iraq War is over. Or is it? With a spate of attacks that have cost American lives almost daily, the newly-minted general in charge of the region, Abu Zayd, has been forced to admit… Full Transcript
The Other Central Park Rapes
Scholar-activist Angela Davis once wrote, “The ideological space for the proliferation of this racialized fear of crime has been opened by the transformation in international politics created by the fall of the European socialist countries.… Full Transcript
George W. Bush in Africa
What in the world is George W. Bush doing in Africa? Rarely has a world leader seemed more lost, more ill at ease than the recent portrayal of the incumbent US president strolling around in… Full Transcript
Affirmative Distraction
With a pair of cases announced days before their summer retirement, Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, the US Supreme Court decided the constitutionality of affirmative action, at least for the next generation. The… Full Transcript
Frying The French
The great French thinker, Alexis de Tocqueville, once said, “In politics, a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.” The American people, through the corporate media, have been exposed to an unprecedented… Full Transcript
Above All Laws
If there has been any constant in the last several millennia, besides change, there’s been the raging appetite of empires to remake the world in their various images. All of them, the Roman, the Ottoman,… Full Transcript

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