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Imperialism

The indispensable nation

by Régis Debray,Translated by Donovan Hohn,

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Weekly Review

President George W. Bush dismissed growing complaints that he exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq in the buildup to the invasion and invited Iraqis who remain loyal to Saddam Hussein…

The romance of empire

by Thomas De Zengotita,

And the politics of self-love

The American Rome

by Lewis H. Lapham,

On the theory of virtuous empire

Weekly Review

by Elizabeth Giddens,

A Roman protester was shot twice in the head and killed by a 20-year-old paramilitary officer at the G-8 summit in Genoa, Italy; the Land Rover in which the police…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

A Concorde airplane crashed in Paris; two amateur Hungarian photographers snapped a picture of the doomed plane with flames shooting from its engines, which were manufactured by Rolls Royce, just…

The flowers of empire

by Jamaica Kincaid,

Bosnia

by David Rieff,

The case for empire

Telling foreign truths

by David Rieff,

The perils of inattention

by Alberto Moravia,Translated by John Satriano,

Imperialism

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The indispensable nation

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Weekly Review

The romance of empire

The American Rome

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The flowers of empire

Bosnia

Telling foreign truths

The perils of inattention

August 1984

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