Switzerland had no colonies – yet some Swiss worked hand in hand with the colonial powers and profited from their seizure of land and resources on other continents. This content was published on August 14, 2020 – David Eugster (Text), Corinna Staffe (Illustration) Around 1800, learned European men were likely […]
Jan 12,2021 – JORAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD Israel’s decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many. Even by Israel’s poor humanitarian standards, denying Palestinians access to life-saving medication seems extremely callous. Amnesty International, among many organisations, condemned the Israeli government’s decision to bar Palestinians […]
Promoted posts:Is Russian Orthodox Church, Catholic Church, Hamas, Shiite Islam in Iran or Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Force for Good? and Beliefs, Identity and Deeds: What is a Healthy Balance? By Shahzad Ahmed The […]
Mexico’s president says the Vatican should apologise for ‘reprehensible atrocities’ in colonisation 500 years ago The capture of Tenochtitlan by Hernando Cortes in 1521, after a painting by Alonzo Chappel. […]
Ade Adeyemi Back in 2005, foreigners like me, pledging their allegiance to Queen Elizabeth in the London borough of Redbridge, were rewarded with a fine bone china mug, as well […]
Carrie Gibson © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Print Collector/Getty ImagesFor a ship that would sail into the pages of history, the Mayflower was not important enough to be registered in […]
28 April 2017 Genocide and Denying It: Why We Are Not Taught that the Natives of the United States and Canada were Exterminated Death Toll: 95,000,000 to 114,000,000 American Holocaust: […]
by Muhammet Ali Güler Op-Ed May 29, 2020 Algeria was a part of the Ottoman Empire between 1517 and 1830. Therefore, both Ottomans and Algerians influenced each other for over […]
by Ismail Akwei, at 08:00 am, January 22, 2019 Italian deputy prime minister who is also labour and economy minister, Luigi di Maio, has accused France of fuelling migration […]
Nov 15,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – Akram Al Deek The 20th century has witnessed unprecedented mass migration movements from the formerly colonised to the heart of former colonies. This has resulted subsequent […]
The Great War is often depicted as an unexpected catastrophe. But for millions who had been living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new. By Pankaj Mishra […]
‘Britain came to one of the richest countries in the world in the 18th century and reduced it, after two centuries of plunder, to one of the poorest’ Matt Broomfield @hashtagbroom 458 comments Britons suffer “historical amnesia” over the atrocities and plunder committed by their empire, Indian MP and authorShashi Tharoor has […]
The shame of Abu Ghraib prison is part of a long tradition that goes back to the Crusades Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 May 2016 2 comments Iraq, 7 May 2004 […]
As Stalingrad-size casualties mount in civil war Syria today, it’s worth remembering how the French and British thought they could create a ‘modern’ Syria in 1941 Robert Fisk @indyvoices Sunday 6 March 2016 36 comments As General de Gaulle set out for the Middle East in April of 1941, he famously wrote that […]
Dec 20,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Jeffrey D. Sachs The United States, the European Union and Western-led institutions such as the World Bank repeatedly ask why the Middle East cannot govern itself. The question is asked honestly, but without much self-awareness. After all, the single most important impediment to good governance […]