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NobluedogPost Master

What Do Empires Do?

By Michael Parenti

Empires are enormously profitable for the dominant economic interests of the imperial nation but enormously costly to the people of the colonized country. In addition to suffering the pillage of their lands and natural resources, the people of these targeted countries are frequently killed in large numbers by the intruders.
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2/14/106:41 PM

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Ronnie P.Old Faithful

They also build death stars which you want to blow up before the get fully operational.

kperk014Post Master

Poor clifford. Even though I'm against it, he is a very good argument for euthanasia. I mean once someone is that far gone.....

elinterventor01Post Master

Same old Marxist-Leninist line I read in radical tabloids in the sixties. The left is a broken record stuck in the same groove forever.

JOY4567Hall of Famer

What do Empires do?

They strike back!
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ferrelljOld Faithful

May the force be with us.

2/15/1010:09 AM

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