Imperialisms in our times
Making sense of ‘Chinese characteristics’. Is it time for the Pakistani Left to start talking about Chinese ‘imperialism’? by Aasim
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Race, culture, terrorism and ‘deep structures’
Akbar Ahmad and Noam Chomsky examine examine issues of race in America which engender different forms of violence and terrorism. While race is on the surface of society, understanding how it related to society’s deeper structures can help make sense of it. It is the failure to tackle race issues that is partly responsible for the turbulence in contemporary American society.
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Argentinean football idol Diego Maradona dies
World’s football legend Diego Maradona, widely regarded as one of the game’s greatest ever players, dies of a heart attack at his home in San Andres neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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In conversation with Chomsky: Intellectuals, imperialism and human nature
The criticism of Western policy by the so-called free press within narrow bounds has subtle effect of imposing the hegemonic doctrine of imperialism, serves the western dominant intellectual culture and its institutions, says Prof Noam Chomsky
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Iraq’s vote to kick out US troops reflects growing anti-imperialist movement
News Desk The Iraqi parliament on Sunday said it loudly and clearly: “The Iraqi government must work to end the
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Breaking the class ceiling: New books challenge the meritocracy trap
by TIM STRANGLEMAN Neither faith in, nor critiques of the idea of meritocracy is new. Michael Young’s famous 1958 book The Rise
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East India Company invented corporate lobbying
Historian William Dalrymple’s new book, The Anarchy, indicts the East India Company for “the supreme act of corporate violence in
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Politics: Empire’s racketeers
Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of
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