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The reality of women in Islam is a prefabricated destiny.
The Clash of Fundamentalism (2002)
Had the United States remained neutral, as a majority of the country wanted, a ceasefire and truce between the British and German empires would have been the only realistic solution.
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution (2017)
Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.
The Clash of Fundamentalism (2002)
One could add that the manufactured love for Churchill, and the uses made of him, came to embody the nostalgia for an Empire that was long gone.
Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes (2022)
Time, then, to bury Lenin's body and revive some of his ideas. Future generations in Russia might realise that Lenin still has a bit more to offer than [[w:Pyotr Stolypin|Prince Stolypin.
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution (2017)
The Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province had been through a brutal process of ethnic cleansing.
Uprising in Pakistan (2018)
One of the worst criminals Europe ever produced was Leopold of Belgium, whose ownership of and brutalities in the Congo led to the deaths of several million Africans.
Winston Churchill: his times, his crimes (2022)
Not even the largest party can 'make' or 'steal' a revolution, but the success of such an endeavor depends on the ability, lucidity, energy and single-mindedness of a revolutionary party when confronted with a prerevolutionary crisis.
The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution (2017)
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