Stephen Zunes, a professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, is currently the Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research professor at the Gothenburg University in Sweden.
After France was expelled from Haiti, they forced Haiti to pay for the lost land and slaves for 122 years.
It's no wonder that nations which have had their natural resources and people exploited for hundreds of years, have had their culture and native intitutions marginalized if not exterminated, have had families decimated by slavery and political repression, and continue to be exploited even after nominal independence struggle to succeed. Of course they are owed reparations. They deserve comprehensive support, a Marshall Plan for independence. You break it, you fix it.
The Church in the
colonies is a white man's Church, a foreigners' Church. It does
not call the colonized to the ways of God, but to the ways of the
white man, to the ways of the master, the ways of the oppressor.
Late last year, the Defense Department also issued its long-awaited “Instruction on Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response,” which established the Pentagon’s “policies, responsibilities, and procedures for mitigating and responding to civilian harm.” The document, mandated under the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, and approved by Austin, directs the military to “acknowledge civilian harm resulting from U.S. military operations and respond to individuals and communities affected by U.S. military operations,” including “expressing condolences” and providing ex gratia payments to next of kin.
But despite $15 million allocated by Congress since 2020 to provide just such payments and despite members of Congress repeatedlycalling on the Pentagon to make amends for civilian harm, it has announced just one such payment in the years since.
In its bare reality, decolonization reeks of red-hot cannonballs
and bloody knives. For the last can be the first only after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists.
This determination to have the last move up to the front, to have
them clamber up (too quickly, say some) the famous echelons
of an organized society, can only succeed by resorting to every
means, including, of course, violence.
I know this is an opinion piece but it kinda smells like propaganda. Of course paying for civilian casualty claims is dwarfed in cost by the entire military industrial complex. Truthout is also rated as extreme left as it gets with “mixed” factual reporting.
brb gonna change my private school's status to a urinal because I believe that women's place is at home and therefore they shouldn't get any education. For a good a good measure, I'll do the same to the office building, the driving school, and the airline I own.
Largely due to the birthrate crisis and a problem with abandoned homes, Japan is trying to entice people from other countries and of child bearing age to sign contracts where they get an abandoned home for dirt cheap if they commit to renovating the home and living in it for at least 10 years.
What it primarily does is tell the Department of Education that when it enforces federal anti-discrimination laws, it must use the definition of antisemitism put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). DoE enforcement actions of this sort are somewhat uncommon, and take a long time to play out. So, it's really tough to see great relevance
"No fossils belonging to the species have been found but scientists know it exists because of footprints found in Fujian Province in south-eastern China."
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