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The Most Provocative Filmmaker in the World: A Conversation With Mads Brügger on The Ambassador

Jason Apuzzo | Posted 02.10.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: The-Red-Chapel, Werner Herzog, Africa, Central African Republic, Liberia, Jean-Bedel Bokassa Central African Republic, Mads-Brugger, Sundance Film Festival 2012, Colonialism, Communist China, North Korea, Omar El Bashir, Blood Diamonds, Robert Mugabe, Carl-Theodor-Dreyer, Heart of Darkness, The Ambassador, Mads Brugger, Entertainment News
Jason Apuzzo

He's punk'd both the North Korean communist government and in his new film, the Central African Republic and its corrupt diplomatic culture. Mads Brügger is one of Europe's funniest and most controversial filmmakers, although most Americans haven't heard of him -- yet.

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On the Obligatory Picture With Brown Babies: A Critique of Colonialism, Cuteness, Study Abroad and Facebook

Emily Schorr Lesnick | Posted 01.24.2012 | Culture

Read More: Facebook Photos, Colonialism, Imperialism, Facebook, Study Abroad Photos, Study Abroad, Culture News
Emily Schorr Lesnick

These pictures have become a staple of travel photo albums and a ritual for the traveler, a documentation of a privileged and condescending gaze upon a small, politicized body.

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Africans, Is it Time to Question 400 Years of Colonialism and 50 Years of Aid?

Atim Oton | Posted 01.24.2012 | Black Voices

Read More: Black Voices, Colonialism, Africans, Africa, The Scramble for Africa, Nigeria, Post-Colonialism, Rwanda, Black Voices News
Atim Oton

Africa is still a child and needs to grow up. But it's growth has to be on its own terms. It is time for Africa to re-evaluate its 400 years of colonialism and the last 50 years of aid. Each has changed the continent in some many ways.

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The American Silk King

AP | By DENIS D. GRAY | Posted 01.19.2012 | Books

Read More: Joshua Kurlantzick, Vietnam, Colonialism, Silk King, Office of Strategic Services, Jim Thompson, Books News

BANGKOK -- Forty-five years after vanishing into a jungle without a trace, "Silk King" Jim Thompson remains a daily presence in Thailand: Shoppers cro...

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PHOTOS: Artist We're Digging Today: Adriana Varejao

Posted 01.11.2012 | Arts

Read More: Brazilian Painting, Lehmann Maupin, Colonialism, Varejao, Tesselations, Andrea Varejao, Brazilian Art, Arts News

Brazilian artist Adriana Varejao paints tiled spaces and she also paints poetry. At first her rooms look like dreamy feats of impossible architecture,...

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Do the British Still Rule India?

David Hill | Posted 01.30.2012 | World

Read More: Interpol, Colonialism, Indonesia, Un, West Papua, Benny Wenda, World News
David Hill

Or do the French rule Algeria? The Portuguese, Angola? The Italians, Libya?

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Tropical Exuberance Meets Colonial Grace In Nicaragua

Jetsetter.com | Posted 01.17.2012 | Travel

Read More: Colonialism, Jetsetter, Central America, Central America Travel, Granada, Slidepollajax, Nicaragua Travel, Granada Travel, Spanish, Nicaragua, Travel Blogs, Travel News
Jetsetter.com

The ancient adobes are newly dressed in bright tropical colors and filled with fine restaurants, small boutiques. Horse-drawn carriages still roll along the photogenic streets.

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Pax Occupata

Randall Amster | Posted 01.14.2012 | Politics

Read More: Global Occupy, Empire, Emma's Revolution, Colonialism, Pax Americana, Occupy Wall Street Protests, David Rovics, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Bob Dylan, Paradigm Shift, Peace, Occupy Movement, Horizontal Politics, Politics News
Randall Amster

Everyone's a bard, and all the world's a stage. The curtain is finally closing on the old order, and a new paradigm of peace is being hewn from the colossus.

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A Brief 'History' of Day of the Dead

Marga Britto | Posted 01.01.2012 | Latino Voices

Read More: Hispanic Heritage, Colonialism, Cultura, Day of the Dead, Mexican History, Latino Voices News
Marga Britto

The day of the dead is one of our most beloved traditions in Mexico, surpassed only by that of electing crooked politicians and watching TV content for the mentally sedated.

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I Don't Have To Celebrate Columbus

Vito de la Cruz | Posted 12.10.2011 | Latino Voices

Read More: Latino History, Cultura, Colonialism, Latino Politics, Columbus Day, Hispanic Heritage Month, Latino Voices News
Vito de la Cruz

Of course, I understand, as I type this piece on my laptop, that Columbus' exposure of the New World made exploration inevitable and that we are who we are today, in large part because he triggered that European curiosity. But, I don't have to celebrate the man, his misdeeds, or his arrogant, short-sighted waste of human life.

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Aid And Independence In East Timor

Posted 11.28.2011 | World

Read More: Foreign Aid, Colonialism, East Timor, Indonesia, South East Asia, Timor Leste, Un Aid East Timor, United Nations, The Diplomat, South Sudan, World News

By Simon Roughneen, The Diplomat 'Goodbye conflict, welcome development' reads the Panglossian banner on the Timor-Leste Finance Ministry web...

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Divide and Conquer

Jay Tavare | Posted 10.24.2011 | Impact

Read More: Divide and Conquer, Colonialism, American Indians, Ethnicity, Skin Color, Discrimination, Tribalism, Race, Star Trek, Cherokee, Culture, Seminole, Impact News
Jay Tavare

As 2012 approaches and our global village gets smaller and more crowded, we must remind ourselves that underneath the stars we are all one race, one people.

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Droning on in Afghanistan

Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 10.17.2011 | World

Read More: Colonialism, Royal Navy, Pakistan, Bin Laden, British Empire, Afghanistan, India, China, Drones, Gunboats, World News
Sarwar Kashmeri

Today the drone increasingly projects American power and justice in distant lands. Shoot down an American helicopter and you'll soon find a drone buzzing in to settle scores.

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Congress and its Colonialist Agenda

Stephen Zunes | Posted 09.17.2011 | World

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Colonialism, Congress, MoveOn.Org, United Nations, Israel, Palestine, Democracy for America, Democratic Party, World News
Stephen Zunes

One might think -- given this literally reactionary pro-colonialist ideology promoted by Congress -- that at least some Democrats might have to worry about losing the support of their progressive base in doing so.

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To the Mahatma, From a Stateless Indian

Dinkar Jain | Posted 08.28.2011 | World

Read More: Corruption, Kapil Sibal, Washington, Bribes, Anna Hazare, Dc, Subcontinent, Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Kiran Bedi, Black Money, Ramdev, Colonialism, Simon Commission, British Raj, Congress, Democracy, Indian Embassy, Anna, Human Rights Violations, Human Rights, Stateless Indian, Binayak Sen, Civil Activism, Protests, British, India, Pranab Mukherjee, Gandhian, Hazare, Chidambram, Kiran, Sibal, Bedi, World News
Dinkar Jain

2nd April, 2011 Dear Mahatma Today I witnessed the Indian team lift the cricket world cup for the first time in my life. I have never felt so proud. ...

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ReThink Review: The First Grader -- Reading, Writing and Rebellion

Jonathan Kim | Posted 07.13.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Obama Grandfather Tortured by British, Colonialism, The First Grader, Obama Grandfather, Rethink Reviews, The Oscars, Jonathan Kim, British Empire, The King's Speech, Justin Chadwick, Kimani Maruge, Education, Literacy, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee, Kenya, Mau Mau Uprising, Oliver Litondo, Jane Obinchu, Oscars, Mau Mau Rebellion, Naomie Harris, Torture, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

The First Grader tells the true story of Kimani Maruge, an 84-year-old veteran of Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising who earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest primary school student.

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Gbagbo's Blame Game

Scott Straus | Posted 06.12.2011 | World

Read More: Ivory Coast Election, Colonialism, Ivory Coast, Guillaume Soro, Laurent Gbagbo, Alassane Ouattara, World News
Scott Straus

After every major diplomatic initiative resulted in a clear statement in support of Ouattara, Gbagbo certainly knew he could never rule. What was he trying to accomplish?

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Once West Africa's Rising Star, Ivory Coast Faces Dangerous Horizon

Michelle Chen | Posted 06.09.2011 | World

Read More: Libya, Colonialism, Civil War, Laurent Gbagbo, Sub-Saharan Africa, Conflict, Un Peacekeepers, Alassane Ouattara, Africa, United Nations, West Africa, Imf, Ivory Coast, Cote D'Ivoire, World News
Michelle Chen

The crisis engulfing the Ivory Coast is a lesson in how even the trappings of democracy can fail to keep a fragile nation from breaking apart. It wasn't supposed to be this way.

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How Evangelists Invented 'Dravidian Christianity'

Rajiv Malhotra | Posted 05.29.2011 | Religion

Read More: Indian Christianity, Aryan Race Theory, Dravidian Christianity, Colonialism, Tamil Culture, Sanskrit Origins, Early Christianity in India, Christianity, Breaking India, Bishop Robert Caldwell, Evangelism, St. Thomas in India, Indian Church, Lemuria, Religion News
Rajiv Malhotra

In south India, a new identity is being constructed. It is an opportunistic combination of two myths: the "Dravidian race" myth and that early Christianity shaped the major Hindu classics.

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Seven Points Obama Could Make Tonight

Joe Lauria | Posted 05.28.2011 | Politics

Read More: France, Libya, Colonialism, United Nations, President Obama, Politics News
Joe Lauria

Given the past decades of direct European control in Africa and the Middle East, and the more recent US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, it is more ...

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U.S. Claims Libya Is In Violation Of Ceasefire

Reuters | Maria Golovnina and Michael Georgy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Ajdabiya, Britain, Colonialism, Afghanistan, France, Tony Blair, Gerard Araud, Libya-No-Fly-Zone, Benghazi, UN Security Council, Ceasefire, Paris, Gaddafi, No-Fly-Zone, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Zawiyah, Misrata, Libyan Rebels, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Al Jazeera, Libya Protests, World News

March 19, 2011 1:28:37 AM By Maria Golovnina and Michael Georgy TRIPOLI, March 19 (Reuters) - The United States accused Muammar Gaddafi of d...

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The Arab Pinochet Has Left the Scene

Richard Eisendorf | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Europe, Colonialism, Demonstrations, Secret Police, Authoritarianism, Detention, Tunisia, Civil Rights, Economic Development, Chile, Democracy, Tunisia Riots, Dictatorship, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Resignation, Pinochet, Augusto Pinochet, War Crimes, Elections, Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia Protests, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, Torture, World News
Richard Eisendorf

Like Pinochet, Ben Ali traded civil and human rights for economic development -- and lost.

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Territorial Triumph And Geopolitical Pitfalls In South Sudan

Derek Henry Flood | Posted 07.13.2011 | World

Read More: Cabinda, Colonialism, Portuguese Empire, Suharto, Indonesia, East Timor, South Sudan Independence, Al-Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, South Sudan, Sudan Vote, Southern Sudan Vote, Darfur Peace Talks, Sudan Civil War, Sudan, Southern Sudan, Darfur Sudan, World News
Derek Henry Flood

Only time will tell whether "North" Sudan will accept a Republic of South Sudan -- and whether or not the two states will work in concert or begin an African Cold War with oil as the bargaining chip.

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STOLEN ART: Sotheby's Cancels Sale of Looted Benin Oba Mask

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

Read More: Colonialism, Art, African Masks, British Colonialism, African Art, Nigeria, Oba, Looted Art, Benin, Stolen Art, Sotheby's, West African, Benin Mask, Arts News

Sotheby's has scrapped its February sale of a controversial £4.5m mask believed to have been looted by British forces from 19th-century West Africa. ...

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Good Governance Matters, In India

Marie-Lou Fernandes | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Government, India, Colonialism, Bihar, Elections, Criminal Justice System, Police, Development, Security, World News
Marie-Lou Fernandes

There is a new reason to feel vindicated, and hopeful, about India. Last month the Indian state of Bihar - situated to the north of the country with...

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