![]() ![]() ![]() Professor Paul Rogers, of Bradford University, meanwhile has written a detailed discussion of British sea power: A 21st century question, which looks at Britain's attempt to play its role in this 'New World Order'.įinally, those interested in Cuba's past and present might be interested in Chris Harman's article in the latest ISJ, as well as Louis Proyect's comments on Sam Farber. On the latest from Lebanon, see Lebanon Updates as well as here, which quotes Dante: 'The darkest places in Hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.' and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive".'įor further discussion of the American Empire, check out Doug Nesbitt's review of John Rees's Imperialism and Resistance. History 'The Empire,' as it came to be known, was based upon the Old Galactic Republic, a Democratic government under which much of the galaxy flourished, until Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, (the leader of the Republic, and the Emperor in disguise, was. practices which had been long abandoned - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions. The Galactic Empire was the strict, totalitarian, Humanist Government which emerged from the Clone Wars, formed by Palpatine himself in secret. "And in the general hardening of outlook that set in. It ends: 'I think Orwell got it right in this passage from Nineteen Eighty-Four, a tale of the ultimate empire: ![]()
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