Showing posts with label colonialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colonialism. Show all posts
03 May 2012
Dark Hearts
We British have a peculiar ability to blot out our colonial history
By George Monbiot | The Guardian 24th April 2012 in monbiot.com | 23 April 2012
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Resource Curse?
Resource curse is a naive concept that ignores the facts of deep wounds caused by colonialism by European countries over the nations in Asia, Africa,Pacific, South America and Central America. This concept also ignores the reality of a sophisticated transformation from colonialism to global governance mode that is merely a tool to maintain the power of rich industrial countries over the countries natural wealth owners
Arief Wicaksono | BoilingSpot | 8 March 2012
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Imperial leftovers
You probably don’t know it, but Réunion Island has been racked by riots about the price of gas last week. For those of you who happen not to be specialists of African geography, Réunion Island is a French département, roughly half the size of Rhode Island, located in the Ocean Indian, not far from Madagascar. It is officially a part of France, even if, of course, Frenchmen care about it only when it affects the mainland, such as when a chikungunya epidemic threatened to spill over Southern France
by Damien Perrotin | Feb 29 2012 by The View from Brittany in Energy Bulletin | Feb 29 2012
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Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago
We are unlikely to ever know all the details of the birth of the AIDS epidemic. But a series of recent genetic discoveries have shed new light on it, starting with the moment when a connection from chimp to human changed the course of history
By Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin | The Washington Post | Feb 28, 2012
To export ivory and rubber from what is now Cameroon, traders created routes that enabled the first cases of HIV to reach large population centers. This photograph is from a collection by Alice Seeley Harris and her husband, John Harris, who were missionaries in the Belgian Congo at the turn of the century. They documented the horrific abuses of the indigenous people of the Congo by Belgian King Leopold II's regime. Anti-Slavery International/PANOS
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13 February 2012
Argentina: Oil behind British militarist threats over Malvinas
“We support the right of self-determination of the habitants of the Falkland Islands [Malvinas]; what the Argentines having been saying recently is, in my opinion, much more similar to colonialism, because these people want to continue being British and the Argentines what them to do something different”
America XXI in Green Left Weekly | February 12, 2012
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