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Archives: Colonialism
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![How We’re Failing the U.S. Citizens of Puerto Rico](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/10/how-were-failing-the-u-s-citizen-187x137.jpg)
How We’re Failing the U.S. Citizens of Puerto Rico
By Jill Richardson | (Otherwords.org) | - - Wanting federal aid in a natural disaster isn't wanting "everything done for you." It's what we should all expect. Hurricane-struck Puerto Rico wants “everything…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/file-20170919-12924-1w0026y-187x137.png)
How Colonialism, Inequality turbocharge Caribbean Hurricanes
By Levi Gahman and Gabrielle Thongs | (The Conversation) | - - Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked…![250px-Cairo_-_Islamic_district_-_Al_Azhar_Mosque_and_University](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/03/250px-Cairo_-_Islamic_district_-_Al_Azhar_Mosque_and_University-187x137.jpg)
Why we should be wary of Calls for an “Islamic Reformation”
By Todd Green | ( Mizan Project ) | - - This year marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Reformation in Germany, a monumental event in Christian history that generated permanent…![Trump on Barcelona: Recalls US War on Spain, Brutal Occupation of Filipino Muslims](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/08/trump-on-barcelona-recalls-us-wa-187x137.jpg)
Trump on Barcelona: Recalls US War on Spain, Brutal Occupation of Filipino Muslims
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A vehicular terror attack in Barcelona that left over a dozen people dead and 100 injured has been claimed by ISIL. Another terrorist…![Want Iranian Democracy? We had one & CIA overthrew it](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/07/want-iranian-democracy-we-had-on-187x137.jpg)
Want Iranian Democracy? We had one & CIA overthrew it
By Joseph McQuade | (The Conversation) | - - The US and Iran have a complicated relationship. At the moment, it is tense, divisive and delicate. Just over 60 years ago, things…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/61GepBYfFnL._SY344_BO1204203200_-1-187x137.jpeg)
Was/Is there an Islamic Enlightenment? (de Bellaigue)
William Eichler interviews Christopher de Bellaigue | Informed Comment | - - Eichler: 1. In the conclusion to The Islamic Enlightenment you describe modern jihadists as “miracle-grow Muslims” who have been “incubated…![Dear Marine Le Pen: Only a Fascist would Praise Colonialism . . . Oh Wait](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/dear-marine-le-pen-only-a-fascis-187x137.jpg)
Dear Marine Le Pen: Only a Fascist would Praise Colonialism . . . Oh Wait
Jessica Northey | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Marine Le Pen's declaration that colonialism was a positive thing is not only a denial of France's painful history, but an example of the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/9780520292154-639x960-1-187x137.jpg)
Mideast Partition Plans won’t Bring Peace, just Imperial Social Engineering
By Laura Robson | (Informed Comment) | - - The idea that partition and population exchange might represent “solutions” to Middle Eastern conflict, long advocated by a wide variety of observers and…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/qajargirls-1-187x137.jpg)
Photo of the Day: Sad Girl, Happy Girl, Iran 1900 (Sykes)
British Museum | Sir Percy Sykes | - - Two rural Iranian girls of the Qajar era, 1900, one sad, one mischievous. Via British Museum Museum number: Sykes.453 Description: Lantern slide, showing…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/madabajrdn-1-187x137.jpg)
Top Five ways Jesus was not White
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Given the alarming rise of white nationalism in the United States and the ways in which it is often entangled with Christian nationalism,…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/shadowars-1-187x137.jpg)
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East
By Christopher M. Davidson | (Informed Comment) | - - Swept along on a tidal wave of euphoria, by spring 2011 many had cautiously begun to believe that the wave of Arab…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/Rt_Hon_Anthony_Eden_MP-718x960-1-187x137.jpg)
60 Years later, Suez Crisis looks a lot like Iraq War
By Nigel Ashton | (The Conversation) | - - Does history repeat itself? Never perfectly or precisely, but some of the parallels between Anthony Eden’s handling of the 1956 Suez Crisis and…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/map-story-of-palestinian-nationhood-187x137.jpg)
Colonial Slow Genocide: Palestinian Leader Abbas asks Britain for “Balfour” Apology
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, is asking Britain for an apology for its having in 1917 issued the infamous "Balfour Declaration." He won't…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/sykespicot_map-1-187x137.jpg)
Architects of Failure: 100 years of Sykes-Picot
By Akil N. Awan | ( History Today) | - - How an agreement signed in 1916 became shorthand for western treachery, greed and the impact of colonial machinations on the lives…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/image-20160512-16435-12qm8si-187x137.jpg)
Britain should stop trying to pretend that its empire was benevolent
By Alan Lester | (The Conversation) | - - The recent debacle of David Cameron’s filmed condemnation of Nigerian and Afghan corruption and the Queen’s remark on Chinese officials’ rudeness highlights the…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/image-20160510-20727-9w44te-750x389-1-187x137.jpg)
100th Anniversary: What did the Sykes-Picot Agreement mean for the Middle East?
By Stephen Pascoe | (The Conversation) | - - To mark the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, we’ve got a package with an explanatory article about the secret accord (below) .…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/gxnxral_toussaint_louverture.jpg_580246756-187x137.jpg)
Beyond Victimhood: 5 Slaves Who Fought Back and Changed History
By Mohamed Hemish | ( TeleSur | - - March 25 marks the United Nations’ “International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery,” which aims to draw attention to the more…![Syrian Refugees: Colonial Legacy & the Responsibility of France & UK](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/03/syrian-refugees-colonial-legacy-187x137.jpg)
Syrian Refugees: Colonial Legacy & the Responsibility of France & UK
David Peduto | (Informed Comment) | - - The Syrian war has resurrected uncomfortable colonial legacies for France and the United Kingdom. For the French and the British, whose policies in post-World…![Anti-Orientalism: Artists 3-D Scan looted Egyptian treasure in German museum](http://web.archive.org./web/20171010220224im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/02/anti-orientalism-artists-3-d-sca-187x137.jpg)