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Back to SearchScramble for Oceania 3: Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia
At the peak of global colonialism no island however small was exempted from European greed. We conclude our Scramble for Oceania series with the scra…
4 years, 2 months ago
In Real Time with Stan Cox 5: On the Inflation Reduction Bill and on Optimism
Our August 2022 dispatch with Stan Cox. Stan presents us this month with a discussion of the “Inflation Reduction Bill” – is climate change solved? C…
4 years, 2 months ago
Scramble for Oceania 2: The Land Wars of New Zealand
We take advantage of some new scholarship of New Zealand history (Keenan, Wars Without End; Belch, New Zealand Wars; Simons, Soldiers, Scouts and Spi…
4 years, 3 months ago
In Real Time with Stan Cox 4: A discussion of violence and policy murder
The fourth discussion with Stan Cox about his latest dispatch, “They’ll Show Up Armed – Countering Policy Murder and the Rising Violence of the Right…
4 years, 3 months ago
Scramble for Oceania 1: The theft of Australia
At the same time that the European empires were scrambling for Africa, they held a scramble in the Pacific. For the British Empire the base was Austr…
4 years, 3 months ago
Scramble for Africa 21: mini-scramblers Portugal, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark…
The biggest player in the Scramble for Africa was England. Second place to France, third to Germany. But there were many other European powers at the…
4 years, 4 months ago
AER 112: BDS Boston makes a map and chaos ensues
In June 2022 a small activist group in Boston created mapliberation.org, a project mapping primarily policing institutions in Massechussetts and thei…
4 years, 4 months ago
Scramble for Africa 20: Germany (pt3) genocides the Nama, 1908
In September 1904 several Nama scouts slipped away from the Germans after the battle of Waterberg and the genocide of the Herero, to warn their leade…
4 years, 4 months ago
Gustavo Petro wins Colombia’s presidency – what next?
Colombia, in a run-off vote, elected Leftist ex-rebel Gustavo Petro to the presidency in a narrow, historic election. We are joined by Colombian doct…
4 years, 4 months ago
In Real Time with Stan Cox 3: The People vs Petrocracy
Stan Cox joins us for June’s dispatch of In Real Time. As he prepares to travel to Washington DC for a protest (the report on that will follow next d…
4 years, 4 months ago