Word: anti-imperialist
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Hasn't work and a chance for a better life for the once colonized been the great cause of the antimilitarist, anti-imperialist left for the past 40 years? Of course, earning a few dollars a day making running shoes is undesirable compared with the life of Western workers. But it is infinitely better than the subsistence farming these workers have left behind--and to which they would be forced to return should their supposed friends succeed in stopping trade by imposing Western-style labor and environmental standards that no Third World manufacturer could meet...
...even craves it. But Phillips refrains from easing the tension of the narrative, instead depicting two characters much more ambiguous in their views on race, slavery and one another. In the book's final version, Emily's bigotry is accompanied by doubt and fear; and Cambridge is not the anti-imperialist freedom fighter we expect, but a complicated man who resents not only his own enslavement, but also being forced to live among the "heathens" who are his fellow slaves...
Venezuela was apparently targeted because it had chaired the Security Council session that imposed the sanctions. Another object of mob ire was Russia's embassy. The former Soviet Union was once Libya's best friend and supplier in the "anti-imperialist" struggle...
...Anti-American rhetoric by Islamic extremists in Tehran is not to be taken seriously. "It is for domestic, anti-imperialist consumption that the so- called radicals shout warmongering slogans against the Americans," says an Iranian political scientist living in Paris. "Even the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are in no mood to join the hostilities...
...Shannah V. Braxton '88 of the Black Students Association that, "The University has issued a dangerous invitation to its students to commit acts of racial harassment with ever greater intensity until they find the limits of impunity" (The Crimson, October 13). Here at Harvard it is anti-racist and anti-imperialist protestors who are punished, while apartheid ministers like Duke Kent-Brown and contra murders like Adolfo Calero who are welcomed with open arms. Following last year's protest of arch-racist South African vice-consul Kent-Brown, 14 students were placed on probation. While the administration makes a frontal...