The ugly truth of the first world war. By Pankaj Mishra.

Clinging to myths about Iraq and Vietnam only guarantees more war. By Maj. Danny Sjursen.

Among the diplomatic minefields facing the UK as it leaves the European Union, relations with Israel might not seem anywhere near the top of the list. If ever this was true, however, it changed over the past week. The coincidence, no more, of the centenary of the Balfour Declaration and revelations about the very busy summer holiday enjoyed by the – now former – International Development Secretary forced the exposure of some very uncomfortable truths. By Mary Dejevsky.

The world is in convulsion, and so are we. We are taken by a malaise, comprised of a mix of sensations. A dread in face of the sinister landscape brought by the rise of reactive forces everywhere, whose level of violence and brutality reminds us of the worst moments in history. Along with the fear, we are also taken by a perplexity in face of another phenomenon, simultaneous to the first: the takeover of worldwide power by the capitalist system in its new version—financialized and neoliberal—which extends its colonial project to its ultimate limits, its globalitarian realization.

The House bill cancels $16 billion of the National Flood Insurance Program’s debt while loaning Puerto Rico $5 billion – money it will have to pay back. By David Dayen.

Canada and America may argue over who was the first to hold a harvest festival, but both countries’ approaches to the national holiday are similar. By Christine Sismondo.

Nearly half of Brits think we should be proud of our colonial heritage. By Oscar Rickett. (Apr. 27, 2017)

Neither people nor plants fit into easy categories in the post-colonial era. By Anjali Vaidya.

The brilliant object sits on display in a Viennese museum—and Mexico's been wanting it back for decades. By Jacob Mikanowski.

Puerto Rico is dying. By Miguel A. Cruz-Díaz.

Puerto Rico is no stranger to crisis. By Ana Portnoy.

On the colonial colouring of the culinary calamity the British call a cup of tea. By Hamid Dabashi.

Ignoring or downplaying colonial atrocities is the moral equivalent of Holocaust denial. By Nathan J. Robinson.

More than 100,000 were dragged into these camps. Many never made it out alive. By Mark Oliver.

A brief history of the empires that were broken in the Hindu Kush. By Akhilesh Pillalamarri.

May’s government is evoking arguments made by the early 20th-century tariff reform campaign of Joseph Chamberlain. Marc-William Palen.

How a 19th-century French lawyer crowned himself a Patagonian king. By Jacob Mikanowski.

“The idea that North Koreans generally have of Americans may be strange, but I must say, having lived in the USA around the end of the Korean War, that nothing can equal the stupidity and sadism of the combat imagery that went into circulation at the time. ‘The Reds burn, roast and toast.’” — Chris Marker. By Bruce Cumings.

‘Colonialism as a form of violent foreign rule was legitimised by a racist ideology of European superiority,’ says the board that greets you at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin… By Daniel Trilling.

”This is a sea change.“ By Thanassis Cambanis.