The way British history was on the move in New York harbor on Thursday, one might think the empire itself was staging a comeback — if only for a day.
A dozen years ago, many believed that India's Tata Group — the country's oldest and largest conglomerate — was a bloated behemoth that would eventually go under.
When Theo Epstein took over as Boston Red Sox general manager five years ago, he didn't have to look very far for a model of success. The New York Yankees might be Boston's fiercest rival, but they know a thing or two about winning.
There are some serious flaws in President-elect Obama's economic stimulus program. First, there is the major contradiction in goals: while advancing "green tech" jobs, Obama plans to spend far more on the oil-based economy for job creation.
The policies which the Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously concludes were authorized by Bush, Rumsfeld and several other top Bush officials did not merely lead to "abuse" and humiliating treatment, but are directly -- and unquestionably -- responsible for numerous detaine …
Fox News and its NEOCONS, Zionist supporters, Newt Gingrich and Alan Colmes, as well as Democratic Neocons, need to be arrested on the spot for promoting illegal aggression, and threats against other countries like IRAN, when their fascist, zionist, duplicitous standards, justifi …
Persepolis was the magnificent capital of ancient Iran, when that country ruled most of the civilized world, from Egypt to Central Asia and from Greece to Northern India. (Yes, some of the later pharaohs were vassals of Iran!)
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In light of Obama's illegal threats against Iran, in his first news media conference and the revelations that documents, probably from the fascist CIA , were forged to frame Iran, in the same way the NIGER DOCUMENTS were forged to trick the people to support the illegal war in Ir …
".....many are asking when France, Germany or Britain will get a chance to cast a ballot for a leader from their own burgeoning "visible minorities." The answer: not any time soon."
Republican, and John McCain's friend and fellow Vietnam Veteran, Chuck Hagel, was an endorser of McCain in 2000. Before the aftermath of 9/11, Hagel and McCain were closely aligned on many issues including foreign policy.
Workers renovating a rugby stadium have uncovered a vast complex of tombs beneath Rome that mimic the houses, blocks and streets of a real city, according to officials, who have unveiled a series of new finds. More Articles
The neoconservatives imagined that American military power could solve all the world's problems or, at least, most of our own.
From the page: Historians have divided American empire into:
The banking crisis is upending American dominance of the financial markets and world politics. The industrialized countries are sliding into recession, the era of turbo-capitalism is coming to an end and US military might is ebbing. Still, this is no time to gloat.
America garrison the globe in ways that really are unprecedented, and yet, if you live in the United States, you basically wouldn't know it.
Let's face it, we're on an imperial bender and it's been a long, long night.
Modern empires and therefore imperialism which constructs them are ubiquitous: Whether through large-scale multinational corporations or through technologically advanced massive military power, the peoples and nations of the worlds confront the problem of great concentration of c …
Roger Cohen laments what the American nation is quickly becoming, and what it could have been. Whatever happened to Lincoln's "last, best hope?"
I believe it's important message from Russians to Sen. John McCain, an open letter to him. Describing current situation in Russia, where it's driving to and hinting how to convert Russian threat into Russian friendship.
The battle is between the empire, or whatever euphemism by which is goes, and participatory democracy.
Britain's involvement in the slave trade will be studied by all secondary pupils in England from September.
No flag, no country! You can't have one! That's the rules, that... I've just made up.
came across this the other day ,it had pretty good educational videos about Islam from a western point of view ,hope everyone enjoys it.
In the middle of World War I, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour wrote on behalf of the British Government the words that would one day fulfill the dreams and hopes of millions of Jews around the world.
On the subject of the US elections, Arabs are divided between a sceptical majority that sees no difference between John McCain and Barack Obama and a hopeful minority that believes Obama could narrow the gap between the Muslim world and the West.