Category Archives: General

LIBYA: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency

Based on the author’s latest book, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War On Libya and Africa (Baraka Books, Montreal, 2012), and nearly two years of extensive documentary research, this film places the 2011 US/NATO war in Libya in a more meaningful … Continue reading

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Niall Ferguson: Empire (How Britain Made the Modern World) – Why Britain?

“The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost … Continue reading

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What is “New” About the “New Imperialism”?

“Humanitarian Intervention” Without needing to argue that this is pure novelty, as opposed to the most recent strategy, we find the following in Henry Heller’s The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (Monthly Review Press, 2006): … Continue reading

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The New Imperialism: Histories, Theories

The following are very condensed, interpretive summaries of the assigned readings for Week #3. Henry Heller: The Cold War and the New Imperialism Regarding Henry Heller’s The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005 (Monthly Review Press, 2006), and … Continue reading

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Opinion Polls on Canada in Afghanistan

The materials added to the session for Jan. 18 have been updated. Here are all of the opinion polls I could find, to date, regarding Canadian public opinion on their country’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan: Half Would Support … Continue reading

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