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Repression Then and Now

  A policeman measures the distance between a woman's knee and the bottom of her bathing suit. Washington DC, 1922. Library of Congress, USA. Think of France banning burkini and the headscarf, for example. 

Imperialism

“ Even during the Obama years, the US was using its extraterritorial power with increasing enthusiasm.” Why ‘even’? Wasn’t Obama a president of the biggest imperialist power? Many of course believed that he could have been a benevolent imperialist. This law of imperialism is not then about a “rogue” state like Iran or “undemocratic” on like Venezuela.    Beware the long arms of American and Chinese law