Word: exploitationers
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NOWHERE HAS western imperialism so completely dictated the history of an entire continent as in Africa. From the early days of the Roman Empire, when the enslavement of Africans first began, through the plundering and divvying up of Africa's vast territories, to the modern age of massive international and...
Eventually, as the evolving natural paternalism of colonialism attacked slavery, tribal warfare, illiteracy, and some grosser forms of oppression, a westernized class of Africans arose. In this segment of westernized Africans--which generally came to resent both exploitation and paternalism--the roots of nationalism in Africa began to arise in...
After 25 years, the opium addicts of the colonial era serve as an example of imperialism's brutal effects and the Chinese people remain mindful of the exploitation that once made it humiliating to be Chinese, if only to guard against future "barbarian" attacks. China has become a proud nation...
Those benefits start, of course, with the fact that the U.S. needs the oil. Economical methods have been developed to get it (estimated cost per bbl.: around $6, or about as much as that of newly found U.S. oil). In each of these, the shale is literally chewed up and...
If the members of this committee become "paper liberals", if we do not discern the crucial point of our existence, we will be ineffective as in the past. Harvard still owns stock in Gulf, Gulf is still in Angola, and instead of the issues being clear-cut, Gulf is changing...