Tag: Belgium

Linguistic Nationalism in Belgium and the Walloon-Flemish Cleavage

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Belgium became independent in 1830 and its neutrality was guaranteed by the UK in 1839 in order to prevent possible annexations either by France or the Netherlands […]

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Congo doesn’t Need an Apology, It Needs Justice and Reparations

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For there to be justice, Musavuli argues, Belgium must pay for its past and ongoing crimes and exploitation of the Congolese people: “Congo doesn’t need charity, Congo needs justice,” Musavuli said […]

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How Belgium is being Forced to Confront the Bloody Legacy of King Leopold II

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Protesters have called for all statues of the former imperial ruler to be removed in recognition of his massacres in the Congo […]

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These Horrible Chemical Weapons Were Created & Used During the First World War

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Chemical weapons as an invention of the Western war machine. Over 190,000 tons of chemical weapons were produced during World War 1. There were an estimated 1.3 million casualties caused by chemicals during the war, with 90,000 fatalities […]

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Europe’s Forgotten ‘Hitler’ Killed over 10 Million Africans

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His name is King Leopold II of Belgium. Most of the people never learned about him in school, and have also most likely never heard about him in the media either. This is because he’s not included in the popular narrative of oppression (which includes things like U.S. slavery and the Holocaust) […]

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A Liberal Democracy, a Market Capitalist Economy and the Permanent Wars

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My hypothesis is that a market economy requires a permanent state of war. Behind the crocodile tears for the human disasters and ‘white man burden,’ people and nature are of value in themselves and war does a good job at consuming both very quickly […]

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America’s War Аgainst the People of Korea: The Historical Record of US War Crimes

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Washington’s objective is to impose the terms of Korea’s reunification. The NeoCons “Project for a New American Century” (PNAC) published in 2000 had intimated that in “post unification scenario”, the number of US troops (currently at 37,000) should be increased and that US military presence could be extended to North Korea. In a reunified Korea, the military mandate of the US garrison would be to implement so-called “stability operations in North Korea” […]

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