Post Tagged with: "Colonialism"

The Origins and Essence of West European Imperialistic Colonization

The Origins and Essence of West European Imperialistic Colonization

Imperialism and colonialism One of the focal historical features of the western (West European) civilization was and is imperialistic colonization followed by the brutal social, economic, political, financial, etc. exploitation of the local peoples and their cultures. By some academic understanding and formal definition, imperialism is a process of extending a nation-state’s power by territorial occupation or by forming political,[Read More…]

by — 24/02/2023 — Comments are Disabled — World
British Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost Freedom

British Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost Freedom

Irony of Historic National Freedom and Unspoken Tyranny of Imperialism Do nations and civilizations grow out of the moral mire of military conquests, killings of innocent people, political cruelty and subjugation by imperialism? For more than 800 years, India as a Moghul Empire was an economically well integrated and politically viable entity and west European had strong trade and political[Read More…]

by — 29/12/2021 — Comments are Disabled — South Asia
Racism and the rule of law

Racism and the rule of law

Consider living under a set of laws decreed by a racist theocratic dictator calling for ethnic cleansing, slavery, and cultural genocide if not outright genocide. It would probably not be the humanitarian thing to do while alternatively promoting freedom, democracy, and the ‘rule of law’. Unfortunately at its base, this is where the people of the Anglo empire – Canada,[Read More…]

by — 09/12/2021 — Comments are Disabled — World
The Dispossessed and Downtrodden of the Earth

The Dispossessed and Downtrodden of the Earth

            Jean Paul Sartre in the preface to, ‘The Wretched of the Earth: The European elite manufactured a native elite by picking up promising adolescents, branded them with western culture, stuffed them with high sounding phrases, brought them to the ‘mother country’ and sent them back’ white washed’, where they echoed European slogans.1 The third world is not a homogeneous place.[Read More…]

by — 23/06/2021 — Comments are Disabled — Uncategorized