• and the internal state of Africa afforded an honourable motive, and promised a powerful support, to the Roman arms. (ccel.org)
  • This is the transcript of the beginning to the end of the Roman Empire. (angelfire.com)
  • The story of the roman empire begins with the tumultuous founding of the city by romulus and remus. (angelfire.com)
  • The roman empire has long captured the fantasies of the modern world. (angelfire.com)
  • The real roman empire could never be duplicated again. (angelfire.com)
  • But it was the roman people themselves from countless countries and cultures who personified the power and glory of the once thriving empire. (angelfire.com)
  • He believed the Marzamemi shipwreck played an important role in a massive state-led building campaign ordered by Justinian I, the great Byzantine emperor known as the "Last Roman," whose name is synonymous with a resurgence in the fortunes of the Roman Empire in the Late Antique period. (archaeology.org)
  • But the shipment of stone for construction at an industrial level didn't begin until the advent of the Roman Empire. (archaeology.org)
  • Then, in the fifth century, the Roman Empire was torn asunder. (archaeology.org)
  • Among the many legacies of Roman dominance are the widespread use of the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian) derived from Latin, the modern Western alphabet and calendar and the emergence of Christianity as a major world religion. (history.com)
  • In the Third Punic War (149-146 B.C.), the Romans captured and destroyed the city of Carthage and sold its surviving inhabitants into slavery, making a section of northern Africa a Roman province. (history.com)
  • The Roman empire was to be divided between them, Antony taking the east, Octavian the west. (roman-empire.net)
  • and the fall of the Roman empire in the west in the 5th century AD. (historyextra.com)
  • The Roman empire cannot have been governed by a series of psychopaths. (historyextra.com)
  • The Roman empire - established by the emperor Augustus (63 BC-14 AD) in 27 BC following the reign of Julius Caesar - was home to more than 50 million inhabitants at its height in the second century AD. (historyextra.com)
  • Bread and circuses: what happened in the amphitheatres of the Roman empire? (historyextra.com)
  • In 476 AD, the emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed by a Germanic prince named Odovacar, marking the end of the Roman empire in the west. (historyextra.com)
  • Later, the Roman Empire came to dominate the entire Mediterranean basin. (fastweb.com)
  • The fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476 traditionally marks the start of the Middle Ages. (fastweb.com)
  • In the course of doing a little research on the German-Roman frontier (sussing out yet another guided tour for 2007) I came on a citation for a new book on the fall of the Roman Empire. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • Since my knowledge of the "Fall" was sketchy and dated at best, I was long overdue for a refresh … and it turns out that this "New History" of the fall of the Roman Empire is very much worth the effort. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • For our own time, when America has been compared with great enthusiasm to a faltering Roman giant, it's even more appropriate to examine the last great collapse of "civilization" in the Western world. (chicagoboyz.net)
  • Patrick's Father was described by Patrick as a Decurio - a word used frequently in the later Roman Empire for a member of a local municipal or territorial council called the senatus or ordo. (saintpatrickcentre.com)
  • Patrick refers to his fatherland as that of Brittanniae ' the Britons' and the neighbouring regions as Galliae 'the Gauls' suggesting that this was a period when both were divided into provinces within the Roman Empire. (saintpatrickcentre.com)
  • Aetius (d. 454), a Roman general of the closing period of the Western empire, born at Dorostolus in Moesia, late in the 4th century. (uchicago.edu)
  • the Roman historian Pliny praised the wines of this wonderful region, calling them "some of the best in the Empire. (cellartours.com)
  • Sadly, after the Western Roman Empire fell, wine production all but stopped in Catalunya. (cellartours.com)
  • Poland has been silent about its neighbors conflict, but silently moves to secure his border with the Ottoman Empire. (allempires.com)
  • Nikos Christodoulides invoked the Ottoman empire, which controlled much of southeastern Europe, western Asia and northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries from Constantinople, which is now Turkey's largest city, Istanbul. (outlookindia.com)
  • The foreign minister of the divided island of Cyprus is accusing Turkey's president of attempting to promote a new Ottoman empire in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East - and says such an approach to geopolitics could adversely impact regional security. (outlookindia.com)
  • After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire the Western colonial powers (the Illuminati, the Hidden Hand, the Khazars, the Rothschilds, the Zionists or whatever you want to call them) had planned to keep the Arab World in the vital geostrategic Middle Eastern region divided, weak, plagued with perpetual wars so that no other empire could be formed to prevent them from robbing the natural resources of the area. (countercurrents.org)
  • to the West", while still a part of the Ottoman empire, which had "momentous consequences" on socio-economic and cultural developments. (lu.se)
  • The Mandinka kingdoms of Mali or Manden had already existed several centuries before Sundiata's unification as a small state just to the south of the Soninké empire of Wagadou, better known as the Ghana Empire . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • When Justinian ascended the throne, about fifty years after the fall of the Western empire, the kingdoms of the Goths and Vandals had obtained a solid, and, as it might seem, a legal establishment both in Europe and Africa. (ccel.org)
  • From Constantinople, Justinian began to pursue an imperial policy of restoring the empire by reconquering territories that had fallen to the Germanic kingdoms. (archaeology.org)
  • Indeed, the Mali Empire combined traditional African and Islamic culture in what has been called a "remarkable synthesis. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Islamic Empire, from start to finish. (timetoast.com)
  • The Islamic religion reaches West Africa due to trade. (timetoast.com)
  • Also, Tom Vanden Brook of USA TODAY reported , "US military warplanes assisted French forces battling Islamic extremists in two African countries over the weekend, according to the Pentagon, highlighting the growing threat of al Qaeda-linked terrorists in the region. (antiwar.com)
  • Since Obama took office the US spent almost $600 million to combat Islamic militancy across North Africa. (antiwar.com)
  • Helps readers to situate Islamic intellectual history in the context of Western intellectual trends. (lu.se)
  • His armies captured North Africa, Italy, part of Spain, and the main Mediterranean islands in the 530s. (archaeology.org)
  • Beginning in the eighth century B.C., Ancient Rome grew from a small town on central Italy's Tiber River into an empire that at its peak encompassed most of continental Europe, Britain, much of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. (history.com)
  • The first two Punic Wars ended with Rome in full control of Sicily, the western Mediterranean and much of Spain. (history.com)
  • It spanned a vast territory that encompassed the Mediterranean world, much of western Europe and parts of Africa and Asia. (historyextra.com)
  • The disease has recently attracted attention because of high rates of infection for impoverished communities in South America and sub-Saharan Africa and because of new cases reported worldwide as exotic infections among travelers returning to North America and Europe from disease-endemic areas ( 1 , 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Sun Jan 25 14:51:46 2004 History international presents great empires: Rome. (angelfire.com)
  • Originally split off of Rome, the Byzantine Empire outlasted Western Rome by over 600 years. (timetoast.com)
  • Though the Gauls sacked and burned Rome in 390 B.C., the Romans rebounded under the leadership of the military hero Camillus, eventually gaining control of the entire Italian peninsula by 264 B.C. Rome then fought a series of wars known as the Punic Wars with Carthage, a powerful city-state in northern Africa. (history.com)
  • While Europeans would soon begin to depict Africa as backward, wild and disorganized in need of a supervising, colonial hand, the evidence is that as European contact with Africa began in the fifteenth century, the difference between Africa and Europe in terms of governance and technology was minimal with the exception that Europeans had guns and gunpowder . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The ancient civilization stretched across three continents from britain down to north africa, across western europe to parts of asia, the middle east and beyond. (angelfire.com)
  • When the Cold War broke out in Western Europe at the end of the Second World War, France was a key battleground. (cambridge.org)
  • Sweeping out from its original bases in Saudi Arabia, Islam has expanded through violent conquest into north Africa, the Middle and Near East-and into Europe itself, attacking through Spain, Italy and the Balkans. (barnesreview.org)
  • The New York Times reports that some US officials believe a Western assault on Mali "could rally jihadists around the world and prompt terrorist attacks as far away as Europe. (antiwar.com)
  • After 1800, the Industrial Revolution brought prosperity to Britain and Western Europe. (fastweb.com)
  • Europe, Asia and Africa. (countercurrents.org)
  • First, look at those two "pioneers" in creation of Europe-based global trading empires: Portugal, and "Spain" (which back then was still the only partially conjoined monarchies of Castile and Aragon. (justworldnews.org)
  • In French sub-Saharan Africa, the primary victims of this repression were members of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (RDA), an interterritorial alliance of political parties with affiliates in most of the 14 territories of French West and Equatorial Africa, and in the United Nations trusts of Togo and Cameroon. (cambridge.org)
  • However, even as the likely scenario of Habré being condemned to life in prison approaches, one cannot truly feel that justice is being done when Western nations who made his abuses possible continue to exist in impunity, without so much as an admission of guilt. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Clearly, the West African nations had the means to work this iron, as the Africa carried thirteen tons of iron rods on this journey. (schoolshistory.org.uk)
  • And now that I have "arrived" at 1595 CE, I have reached some preliminary conclusions about how it was that some Western European nations emerged as "pioneers" in the building of globe-girdling empires, back in the 16th and even the 15th centuries of the Common Era. (justworldnews.org)
  • But actually, one of the things I've discovered is that at the time in which the entities we now know of as Portugal and Spain started building their global empires, they weren't even really "nations" in any form we would immediately recognize today. (justworldnews.org)
  • Its western provinces fell to the Germanic Vandals, Visigoths, and Ostrogoths, and long-distance trade networks collapsed. (archaeology.org)
  • His calumnies against his rival, Count Boniface, which were at first believed by the emperor, led Boniface to revolt and call the Vandals to Africa. (uchicago.edu)
  • Justinian the First becomes the ruler of the Byzantine Empire. (timetoast.com)
  • The Muslims failed the attack, and the Byzantine Empire won. (timetoast.com)
  • When the Byzantine Empire reached it's highest point in their "legendary status. (timetoast.com)
  • This ended the Byzantine Empire. (timetoast.com)
  • Wagadou's control over Manden came to a halt after 14 years of war with the Almoravides, Muslims of mostly Berber extraction from North Africa . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Ife was surpassed by the Oyo Empire as the dominant Yoruba military and political power between 1600 and 1800 AD. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Mali Empire or Manding Empire or Manden Kurufa was a medieval West African state of the Mandinka from c. 1235 to c. 1600. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The history of the Yoruba people begins in Ile-Ife(Ife Empire). (wikipedia.org)
  • Shortly afterwards, its armies overran the Yoruba military capital of Ilorin, and then sacked and destroyed Ọyọ-Ile, the royal seat of the Ọyọ Empire. (wikipedia.org)
  • Further attempts by the Sokoto Caliphate to expand southwards were checked by the Yoruba who had rallied in defense under the military leadership of the ascendant Ibadan clan, which rose from the old Oyo Empire, and of the Ijebu city-states. (wikipedia.org)
  • Oyo empire , Yoruba state north of Lagos, in present-day southwestern Nigeria , that dominated, during its apogee (1650-1750), most of the states between the Volta River in the west and the Niger River in the east. (britannica.com)
  • Justinian then set out to renovate and build fortifications and churches in an effort to reconsolidate the empire and promote his vision of Christianity. (archaeology.org)
  • Marked by this long history of repression, elections in French-speaking Africa, which long served the colonial and then neo-colonial order, now a neo-liberal agenda is perpetuated. (lu.se)
  • Examples of the traditionalist attitude include the Qing dynasty government, which dismantled the railway near Beijing because they worried about the impact of modern technology on the Chinese people, and also the Boxer movement when the people used gongfu to fight against the Western armies. (who.int)
  • But what has the fight against the Western armies. (who.int)
  • The battle for Constantinople between the Muslims and the Byzantine Empires. (timetoast.com)
  • Capturing this diversity, this volume also sheds light on some of the less-known experiences from South East Asia to North Africa. (lu.se)
  • While Starkey incorporates Arabic-written literature as a widely valid criterion in his definition, he further problematizes it through the political history of the Middle East, which he says entailed "an at times aggressive Western colonialism" when literature in Arabic was "eclipsed" in favour of writings in French. (lu.se)
  • In the late 1800s, they formed a treaty with the British Empire and were colonized by Britain beginning in 1901. (wikipedia.org)
  • Trade saw goods made in countries such as Great Britain taken to Africa for sale. (schoolshistory.org.uk)
  • The disease became en- all continents except Australia and Antarctica ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The Hoa Hakananai'a is just one example of many when it comes to spoils of the British Empire which sit permanently in UK exhibitions. (rt.com)
  • However, as Tamale points out, the laws that still apply in countries such as Uganda, Nigeria, Malawi and Kenya were originally written by the British Empire. (lu.se)
  • But perhaps the most ironic example of the establishment desperation for a return to empire as usual was their lavish praise of French President Emmanuel Macron for defending what had been previously known as the Washington consensus of free-trade globalization. (socialistworker.org)
  • Yet this did not suit Israel and its western supporters, so they applied pressure on the Palestinian Authority to oppose a Hamas government, which eventually led to the separation of the Gaza Strip from the West Bank and the establishment of two separate Palestinian governments. (countercurrents.org)
  • The answer to the question of why those powers had a lot to do with the skill-sets that the basically feudal leaders in Portugal, Castile, and Aragon had developed during the lengthy preceding centuries in which they had fought to oust the very well-developed Muslim city-states that preceded them in the Iberian Peninsula, and send those Muslim leaders packing, "back" into North Africa. (justworldnews.org)
  • Challenges Western misconceptions about the modern Muslim world in general and the Arab world in particular. (lu.se)
  • The Ugandan criminologist Sylvia Tamale has together with other, mainly feminist, researchers written the book African Sexualities , [2] aiming to explain the ideas and forgotten processes that led to the current situation. (lu.se)
  • The argument that is most insistently presented by conservatives during the recent years' sexual-political development in Africa is that homosexuality is not African, but something the imperialist colonial powers are trying to impose on Africa to destroy the continent from within. (lu.se)
  • May 11-Chinese Premier Li Keqiang projected an optimistic vision of Chinese-aided industrial and infrastructural growth for the African continent, on a visit to four African countries, which began May 4 in Ethiopia, and ended today in Kenya. (larouchepub.com)
  • This is the first time that a leading nation has advocated a plan to begin the process of the rapid industrial and infrastructural development of Africa, since Lyndon LaRouche initiated a study in 1979 which called for the rapid development of infrastructure, including a continent-wide rail network, ambitious water projects, nuclear power, and industrialization. (larouchepub.com)
  • Just because the Egyptians were African (because that's the continent they're on after all! (allempires.com)
  • Character of Constantine- Gothic War- Death of Constantine- Division of the Empire among His Three Sons- Persian War- Tragic Deaths of Constantine the Younger and Constans - Usurpation of Magnentius- Civil War- Victory of Constantius. (ccel.org)
  • Part 2: Empires and Cultures of the Ancient World, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. (pearson.com)
  • 5. Africa: Early History to 1000 C.E. (pearson.com)
  • I cannot accept that a large part of the cultural heritage of several African countries is in France ," Macron said last year in Burkina Faso. (rt.com)
  • Tamale's message is complex, but one position she finds to be of great importance is that there are political reasons why governments in African countries, with corrupt political systems and failed economies, highlight homosexuality as the most important moral issue. (lu.se)
  • The issue of moral unity or diversity arises from the fact that bioethics has expanded globally beyond Western countries. (who.int)
  • Examples from the fact that bioethics has expanded of the traditionalist attitude include the Qing globally beyond Western countries. (who.int)
  • While the Mandinka people generally referred to their land and capital province as Manden, its semi-nomadic Fula subjects residing on the heartland's western (Tekrur), southern (Fouta Djallon) and eastern borders (Macina) popularized the name Mali for this kingdom and later empire of the Middle Ages. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • According to the testament of the founder, the African kingdom had lineally descended to Hilderic, the eldest of the Vandal princes. (ccel.org)
  • At a time when several coup d'états have shaken this region, this book offers an original analysis and an indispensable reflection for understanding the current revolt of the African peoples, and in particular, the youth, who are calling for genuine democracy. (lu.se)
  • Stating that China has developed world-leading technologies in this area, Li said his nation is ready to work with Africa to make this dream come true. (larouchepub.com)
  • For more than a thousand years they ruled the western world conquering enemies, building opulent cities and living lives of decadent grandeur. (angelfire.com)
  • The empire entered World War I on the side of Germany and the central powers that were defeated, leading to its breakup and the rise of the modern Turkish republic. (outlookindia.com)
  • This is how the Western world usually sees Africa. (lu.se)
  • The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa I. The Mali Empire had many profound cultural influences on West Africa allowing the spread of its language, laws and customs along the Niger River . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • It later became an empire ruling millions of people from nearly every ethnic group imaginable in West Africa. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • One example of this type of new market being exploited is the increase in the number of ships that sailed from England to the West Coast of Africa. (schoolshistory.org.uk)
  • Different, perhaps, is that much of the shipment was actually of Indian origin, expensive linens and satin being valuable goods being taken to the West African markets. (schoolshistory.org.uk)
  • Fonio - a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits - has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for thousands of years. (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
  • Yolélé recently partnered with Mali-based agribusiness company Mali Shi to establish a new venture, called West African Ancient Grains, that plans to process thousands of tonnes of fonio in Mali to meet increasing global interest in the superfood. (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
  • Yolélé has now partnered with Mali-based Mali Shi to establish West African Ancient Grains. (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
  • We met, we felt an affinity, and decided to establish West African Ancient Grains together. (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
  • West African Ancient Grains will contract directly with smallholder organisations to grow fonio paddy. (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
  • How will West African Ancient Grains tie in with Yolélé's existing business in the US? (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
  • But on another level, West African Ancient Grains allows us to achieve our fundamental purpose of generating traceable income for smallholders engaged in climate-smart, sustainable, biodiverse agriculture . (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
  • In a way, Yolélé is West African Ancients Grains' marketing arm. (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
  • Our conversations with them are about how using West African Ancient Grains' products can allow them to achieve traceable impact, easily. (howwemadeitinafrica.com)
  • A group of languages spoken in the extreme western part of West Africa. (primidi.com)
  • Dr. Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Senegalese development economist and has previously worked as a technical advisor at the Presidency of the Republic of Senegal, and as Programme manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. (lu.se)
  • Showing support for LGBTQI rights in Africa is currently popular in the West. (lu.se)
  • Showing support for LGBTQI rights in Africa is currently popular in the West", says Kenyan human rights activist Mariah during one of our field studies. (lu.se)
  • A situation where the West is understood as the civilised free zone for homosexuality, while Africa, which has long been constructed as the antithesis of enlightenment and democracy, is attributed with an attitude of strong, popularly established and often aggressive aversion in Western media stories on African homophobia. (lu.se)
  • From Adventures of Briscoe County, Jr. , through Zorro and Son , this comprehensive reference work covers all 180 Western series. (mcfarlandbooks.com)
  • As you may know [from previous commentaries] that I do a large amount of work with my friends and colleagues in sub-Saharan Africa. (medscape.com)
  • He also visited Nigeria, China's third-biggest trading partner in Africa, and Angola, its biggest trading partner in Africa. (larouchepub.com)
  • On the same day (May 5) that he made his speech at the African Union headquarters, which included the proposal for an Africa-wide rail network, the China Railway Construction Corp signed a $13.1 billion deal with the Nigerian Ministry of Transport to build a coastal railway in Nigeria, one of the largest foreign railway projects China has ever signed, according to People's Daily online, May 10. (larouchepub.com)
  • Africa has a bewildering variety of people, and it so happens that the people inhabiting the northern areas (Egyptians and Berbers) are a good deal more fair-skinned than say people from Nigeria. (allempires.com)
  • He therefore had to make do with the province of Africa. (roman-empire.net)
  • Segmented colonial structure at all levels make Westerners in Africa, including researchers and field workers, inevitably reassert imperialist patterns. (lu.se)
  • 2,000 years ago all highways led to the most powerful empire known to man. (angelfire.com)
  • In Gaul he won his military reputation, upholding for nearly twenty years, by combined policy and daring, the falling fortunes of the empire. (uchicago.edu)
  • This strategy, in theory, would protect North Africa from falling into the hands of Islamist militants-who would impose strict Sharia rule on unwilling locals and use lawless territory to launch attacks on Western targets-without involving a heavy deployment of American troops like in Iraq and Afghanistan. (antiwar.com)
  • But as heavily armed Islamist militants battle French forces in the Battle for Mali, it's clear Obama's strategy to help weak North African states protect themselves from terrorists has failed catastrophically. (antiwar.com)
  • The invading Gothic and Vandal tribes from the North, in addition to the Moors from North-Africa, saw to that! (cellartours.com)
  • Starkey renders the event as when "Middle East and North Africa had begun to be exposed to large-scale Western and European influence. (lu.se)
  • An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 Syrian refugee children in the Middle East and North Africa currently have no access to formal education 10 . (cdc.gov)
  • The Mali Empire grew out of an area referred to by its contemporary inhabitants as Manden. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • They grew their state from a small town located near the Tiber River in central Italy into a vast empire containing more than 50 million inhabitants. (historyextra.com)
  • The fact that the Chambers, an African entity jointly agreed upon by Senegal and the African Union (AU), is proceeding the long overdue judgment of a notorious war criminal like Habré is thus to be welcomed. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Either Mali becomes a long lasting military quagmire, or a misleadingly quick mission leads to even worse blowback somewhere else in Africa's Sahel region, prompting yet another Western intervention. (antiwar.com)
  • At the same time, the political movements which have long been in the process of revolutionising the religious and political beliefs with regard to sexuality should be considered as emerging from Africa. (lu.se)
  • [2] The Mali Empire was a sophisticated polity, with well organized military and administrative systems and a Great Assembly of clan leaders and delegates to advise the Emperor in its governance. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Mali Empire can be regarded as a constitutional monarchy from before this political system had developed in the European space. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Mande captured Kumbi and created the Mali Empire. (timetoast.com)
  • It is important to remember, as I wrote almost a year ago , that the unrest in Mali that is now the excuse for Western military intervention is a direct consequence of the US-NATO war in Libya in 2011. (antiwar.com)
  • Over and over, western intervention ends up - whether by ineptitude or design - sowing the seeds of further intervention," writes Glenn Greenwald, with regard to the intervention in Mali. (antiwar.com)
  • This son later became the first ruler of the Oyo empire. (wikipedia.org)
  • Exactly and plus the africans were their before the middle easterners invaded Africa. (allempires.com)
  • The documented history begins when Oranyan came to rule the Oyo Empire, which became dominant in the early 17th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Notice: This is the official website of the All Empires History Community (Reg. (allempires.com)
  • However, such portrayals neglect how advocacy for Earth Others can be traced way back in the global history of ideas - and ignore contemporary forms of non-Western veganism. (lu.se)
  • Rather, he advocated an increase in Chinese industrial investment in Africa, and Chinese-aided infrastructure construction, policies which will raise the standards of living, and thereby directly contradict the global British financial empire's murderous policy of keeping Africa undeveloped, and relegated to the status of a raw-materials supplier. (larouchepub.com)
  • The policy approach outlined by Li on his trip, which complements what China is doing elsewhere in its global railroad projects, poses the same threat to the British Empire's plans for Africa. (larouchepub.com)
  • As for Western visitors with an interest in LGBTQI rights, their presence adds fuel to the fire of aggressive anti-homosexual rhetoric. (lu.se)
  • Immediately preceding Li's visit, John Kerry made his first visit to Africa as Secretary of State. (larouchepub.com)
  • We are in an 'Empire State of Mind,' with apologies to Jay Z and Alicia Keyes. (commondreams.org)
  • This, at bottom, is an Empire State of Mind. (commondreams.org)
  • An Empire State of Mind is one where those who order and those who carry out the brutalization and murder, can do so with the assurance of complete impunity because they have the approval of political and media elites, and through them, a widespread public. (commondreams.org)
  • The most appalling hypocrisy perhaps comes from French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, who stated to reporters from France Inter last week that "France has always fought against impunity" and "congratulates the Africans" for bringing Habré to justice. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • France is set to give back 26 of the sculptures permanently, a decision made after a report commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron called for thousands of African artworks to be returned. (rt.com)