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Puerto Rico Relief Bill Cancels $16 Billion in Debt — But Not for Puerto Rico
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.
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The odd, complicated history of Canadian Thanksgiving
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.
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Britain Has Never Faced Up to the Shame of Empire
Nearly half of Brits think we should be proud of our colonial heritage. By Oscar Rickett. (Apr. 27, 2017)
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Native or Invasive
Neither people nor plants fit into easy categories in the post-colonial era. By Anjali Vaidya.
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The Fight to Bring Home the Headdress of an Aztec Emperor
The brilliant object sits on display in a Viennese museum—and Mexico's been wanting it back for decades. By Jacob Mikanowski.
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Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is dying. By Miguel A. Cruz-Díaz.
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Irma and María: Shedding Light on Puerto Rico’s Colonial Reality
Puerto Rico is no stranger to crisis. By Ana Portnoy.
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How British colonialism ruined a perfect cup of tea
On the colonial colouring of the culinary calamity the British call a cup of tea. By Hamid Dabashi.
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A Quick Reminder of Why Colonialism Was Bad
Ignoring or downplaying colonial atrocities is the moral equivalent of Holocaust denial. By Nathan J. Robinson.
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Haunting Photos Of History’s First Concentration Camps, Forty Years Before The Holocaust
More than 100,000 were dragged into these camps. Many never made it out alive. By Mark Oliver.
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Why Is Afghanistan the ‘Graveyard of Empires’?
A brief history of the empires that were broken in the Hindu Kush. By Akhilesh Pillalamarri.
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Britain’s imperial ghosts have taken control of Brexit
May’s government is evoking arguments made by the early 20th-century tariff reform campaign of Joseph Chamberlain. Marc-William Palen.
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The Emperor Of Air
How a 19th-century French lawyer crowned himself a Patagonian king. By Jacob Mikanowski.
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A Murderous History of Korea
“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.
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In Berlin
‘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.
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We are the war on terror, and the war on terror is us
”This is a sea change.“ By Thanassis Cambanis.
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The Fiction of U.S. Isolationism
The old canard is an obstacle to a realistic, fact-based approach to foreign policy. By Andrew J. Bacevich.
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Worse Than Tuskegee
In the 1940s, U.S. Researchers Infected Hundreds of Guatemalans with Syphilis. The Victims Are Still Waiting for Treatment. By Sushma Subramanian.
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The Algerian War of the Wizards
Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin vs. the Marabouts. By Aaron Dabbah.
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Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg ‘the face of neocolonialism’ over land lawsuits
Attorneys for Facebook’s CEO have filed suits against hundreds of Hawaiians centered around his 700-acre Kauai estate, alarming neighbors who see growing inequality and possible displacement. By Jon Letman, Julia Carrie Wong.
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