empire
a refreshing take on America’s Empire
John Michael Greer on the world we face headed into the end of the oil age: It’s not considered polite these days to talk about America’s empire, despite the fact that we keep troops in 140 other countries, and the far from unrelated fact that the 5% of Earth’s population that live in the US [...]
on India
From Lord Macaulay’s speech in the British Parliament on 2nd Feb 1835: “I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I [...]
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