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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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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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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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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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Memento Mori: a Requiem for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is dying. By Miguel A. Cruz-Díaz.
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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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Native or Invasive
Neither people nor plants fit into easy categories in the post-colonial era. By Anjali Vaidya.
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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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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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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 Spheres of Insurrection: Suggestions for Combating the Pimping of Life
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.
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Priti Patel and the Balfour declaration shows that we must re-orientate our foreign policy away from Israel
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.
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The Best Way to Honor a Vet is With the Truth
Clinging to myths about Iraq and Vietnam only guarantees more war. By Maj. Danny Sjursen.
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How colonial violence came home
The ugly truth of the first world war. By Pankaj Mishra.
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A Few Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Thanksgiving
The pilgrims stole from graves, the Wampanoag were devastated by disease, and the peace between them was political. By Becky Little.
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Little House, Small Government
How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America. By Vivian Gornick.
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A city in Niger worries a new U.S. drone base will make it a ‘magnet’ for terrorists
The U.S. military began eyeing Agadez as a drone hub almost as soon as it persuaded Niger's government to permit it to fly drones from Niamey in 2013. A year later, the government approved construction of the second base. By Sudarsan Raghavan, Craig Whitlock.
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Puerto Rico Sketchbook: The Artists with the Shovels
Molly Crabapple spent a week in Puerto Rico, documenting grassroots efforts by communities to rebuild. Here are excerpts from her sketchbook.
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They Wanted To Be A Better Class Of White Nationalists. They Claimed This Man As Their Father
Fifty years ago, France lost a war while trying to keep millions of Muslims French citizens. One French writer launched a movement to rethink “identity” in its aftermath and helped reinvent nationalism for the 21st century. By J. Lester Feder, Pierre Buet.
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Darwin on Endless Trial
Morten Høi Jensen weighs two takes on Darwin’s legacy.
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