Unraveling Oliver Wendell Holmes' memorable 'Faith' address - Courier-Journal
28 May 2012, 1:34 am
a wealthy Boston entrepreneur who had become a pamphlet writer arguing for free trade and against “imperialism.” Atkinson was born 14 years before Holmes, and the difference in their ages affected their roles in the Civil War. Holmes and ...

No longer a gentleman’s game - Deccan Herald
26 May 2012, 1:33 pm
As far as India is concerned, one of the beautiful marks British imperialism left behind is cricket. Till the 1983 World Cup victory, sabotaging the mighty West Indies, cricket was not that popular in India. From the moment Haryana Hurricane ran backwards ...

'Compassion without Compromise': Church throws down the gauntlet - Jamaica Observer
22 May 2012, 2:17 am
Because of poor governance over decades since independence and economic pressures, the related cultural imperialism is not easily resisted by our leaders". The head of the Jamaica Association of Evangelicals, Rev Dr Peter Garth, weighed in at ...

Mark Steyn on Obama's 'Born in Kenya' Bio: 'Composite Chicks Dig It' - Big Hollywood
21 May 2012, 11:30 am
It's entirely irrelevant to the twin pillars of contemporary black grievance – American slavery and European imperialism. To 99.99 percent of people, Hawaii is a luxury vacation destination and nothing else. Whereas Kenya puts you at the heart ...

What It's Like In Thailand's Deadliest Prison - Huffington Post
20 May 2012, 6:55 pm
All the fury of the Thai people against the neo-colonial economic imperialism of the West is directed fully at Western prisoners; in the provincial prisons, at least, where little or no oversight exists. The prisons in Bangkok are somewhat less deadly ...

'Western media hides NATO expansionism, imperialism' - Presstv
20 May 2012, 5:12 am
Some folks don’t even know what NATO is, and I found myself having interesting conversations with people about how NATO is, in fact, not as the media says it is here, a purely defensive alliance, but is in fact an aggressive, expansionist, imperial ...

Breaking rules is the rule here - Hindustan Times
19 May 2012, 4:40 pm
Cricket and the colour white - associated with being pure and pristine - were touted as symbols of the British imperialism’s innate belief in the idea of a world which was fair and just. We all know how just and fair the colonial masters were ...

Latin America’s school for dictators - Miami Herald
17 May 2012, 4:06 pm
a new military doctrine based on “asymmetrical war” against “imperialism” and the “abolition” of the U.N. Security Council. He also attacked the press, calling CNN a “tool of capitalism”, Morales spoke in the presence of Iran’s ...

Iran: imperialism finds new pretext for threats - Indymedia Ireland
15 May 2012, 5:20 pm
Another day, another provocation. Yes, the US led GCC is carrying out War Games around disputed Isles in the Persian Gulf, Isles first seized by the Shah in 1971. Funnily enough the US had no objections to that. Yassamine Mather writes on this and May Day ...