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Showing posts with label British Empire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Empire. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Gideon Polya — Britain Robbed India Of $45 Trillion & Thence 1.8 Billion Indians Died From Deprivation

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Eminent Indian economist Professor Utsa Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University) has estimated that Britain robbed India of $45 trillion betwe...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Rigged Game — The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire

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At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from acros...
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Friday, July 27, 2018

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould — The Grand Illusion of Imperial Power

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Few Americans today understand how the United States came to be owned by a London-backed neoconservative/right-wing alliance that grew out ...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Tony Norfield — Indian Boots on the Ground

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British policy was to depend upon alliances with others, rather than to maintain a large standing army itself. So it was important to be ab...
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Monday, August 1, 2016

The Opium Wars: The Bloody Conflicts That Destroyed Imperial China – And drives its anger over the South China Sea today.

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Backgrounder. In 1839, England went to war with China because it was upset that Chinese officials had shut down its drug trafficking rack...
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Monday, June 15, 2015

Tim Reuter — American Hawks Should Stop Flattering Themselves: They're Not Playing A Great Game With Putin

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Summary history of the confrontation of the Russian and British empires. Forbes American Hawks Should Stop Flattering Themselves: They...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

George Friedman — Limits of the American Empire

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"Empire" is a dirty word. Considering the behavior of many empires, that is not unreasonable. But empire is also simply a descrip...