In theory, President Santos’ accord with the FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, had ended a 52-year civil war that had claimed the lives of some 220,000 Colombians. In practice, the war continued.
While traditional colonial practices involved the subjugation of countries through military and political dominance, neocolonialist states leverage the pulls of conditional loans, cultural hegemony, and economic superiority to sway another country’s foreign policy.
Political turmoil continues to plague Thailand, and the country’s young people have suffered the consequences. Now, they protest for their future as much as their past.
With the immense socioeconomic pressures they face in modern China, young couples are choosing not to expand their brood, much to the dismay of central planners in Beijing.
Natural disasters. Plagiarism scandals. Russian disinformation. The chaotic 2021 German federal election campaign could almost be mistaken for a U.S. presidential campaign. However, there is one major difference...
The optimistic takeaway is that this election was a vote of confidence in the status quo. But perhaps the more realistic reading of the results is that neither party made a compelling case for why they deserved greater legislative control.
It is not just that the nationalistic plans of these people are morally reprehensible. A White ethnostate in the 21st century would fail. And it would fail spectacularly.
“Buildings inside the hills in Columbia”, is what internationally acclaimed rapper Kanye West tweeted when visiting Colombia, the country that served as inspiration for his Grammy-nominated album, The Life of Pablo. A tribute to the drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar, the album hit more than three billion streams worldwide in its first year. Yet, West was unable to correctly name the country whose history he was profiting off. Like many around the world, his knowledge of Colombia was limited to a glorified version of kingpins and drug trafficking, void of research and fact-checking.
