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  • ...ht for the allies in the two [[world wars]], for the British in the [[Boer Wars]] and the Malayan Emergency, and for the Americans in the [[Korean War]], t ...ts into what would become The Musket Wars (1807-42). Throughout The Musket Wars, the tribes without coastlines (often used to trade through ports) or that ...
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  • ...frica, the British destroyed farms and dumped salt in wells. In the Second Boer War, between 1899 and 1902, they built over 100 concentration camps for Boe ...ese]] territory of [[Hong Kong]] in the 19th century following the [[Opium Wars]]. For 150 years, a British-appointed governor ruled the territory without ...
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  • ...the [[Italo-Turkish war|Italo-Turkish]] war of 1911-1912, and the [[Balkan wars]] of 1912-1913. These various conflicts between the imperialist powers of E ...
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  • ...bson, in effect, described as the cant of English parsons. After the Anglo-Boer War it was quite natural for this worthy caste to exert every effort to ''c ...ceful alliances prepare the ground for wars, and in their turn grow out of wars; the one is the condition for the other, giving rise to alternating forms o ...
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  • ...shape in the period 1898–1914. The Spanish-American War (1898), the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) and the economic crisis i ...rn finance capital is being frantically challenged; the era of imperialist wars has begun. It was possible in those days to bribe and corrupt the working c ...
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  • ...principal contradiction.” However, Mao argues that in national liberation wars against imperialism, the principal contradiction is different, as the class ...the oppressed nations within the U.S. while imperialism continues to wage wars to plunder the underdeveloped countries the world over. ...
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  • ...tury, beginning with the early forties, her history has been punctuated by wars with the object of opening her up to trade by brute force. Missionaries pro ...hange with European capital, made its first impact on China with the Opium Wars when she was compelled to buy the drug from Indian plantations in order to ...
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  • ...lish civil servant, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, who during the Napoleonic Wars was deputy governor of Java for a time, stated that the previous administra ...on among the popular classes; otherwise, nature would dispose of them with wars, famines and epidemics. In this respect the role of medicine was problemati ...
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  • ...of famine, unemployment, criminality, misery, corruption and inter-ethnic wars, has led to the reassessment of prejudices firmly held since adolescence ...st wars. Military wars, clandestine wars, political wars and psychological wars. Isn't it obvious that the anti-Stalin campaign was at the heart of all ide ...
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  • .... He was a veteran of the Black Tenth Cavalry. He had fought in the Indian wars against Geronimo and had participated in the chase for Billy the Kid. Ballo ...olence unfolded. Portrayed in striking colors were the interminable tribal wars in which the Israelites slew the Mennonites and Pharoah’s soldiers killed l ...
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  • ...the Nicaraguan insurrectionist model with the Vietnamese one of prolonged wars of attrition that used propaganda victories in the United States and system ...tactics in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s. As one British observer of the Boer War commented in 1901: “If there is one certain education to be drawn from ...
    1.21 MB (192,471 words) - 22:04, 24 January 2024
  • ...yptic of course than the events of September 11 and their aftermath in the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. As I wrote these lines, the illegal and unsan ...ia as they focus ahistorically and sensationally on the distant electronic wars that give viewers the sense of surgical precision but that in fact obscure ...
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