Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is precisely why, throughout human history, the leaders of failing nations have habitually turned to military imperialism as a method to distract the people from far more serious problems at home. When the sons of a nation are returning home in body bags, nobody pays much attention to failures in education or the economy.
This is not to say that there are not some instances in which going to war has genuine justification. |
Mark Schapiro
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 In Europe, there has always been this protest over American imperialism.' Now Americans finally cannot believe that there might be what they think is 'EU imperialism' when it comes to setting those standards."
Shortly after my meeting with Nicolas Thery, I had dinner with Robert Donkers, when he was back in Brussels for a visit to the home office. We met at Balthazar, a restaurant just down the block from the Berlaymont, a popular refuge for Eurocrats seeking a quiet place to cut deals amid the muted yellow walls and plush banquettes. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Both germ theory and the labs that put it into practice played active and highly visible roles in imperialism, and in India. So how did Indians respond to this form of cross-cultural medicine, embedded in and imbued with all the assumptions of imperialism—but also contested, scrutinized, and from the perspective of the nineteenth-century world, profoundly counter-intuitive?
Temperate Seeds in Tropical Soils: Germ Theory in the Indian Medical Marketplace
William Osier remarked in 1905 that
The quarrels of doctors make a pretty chapter in the history of medicine. |
| As the eighteenth century progressed, however, European mercantilism—with its emphasis on creating (or commandeering) markets that could be controlled by a single nation-state—deepened into the beginnings of imperialism. In this climate, while local medical knowledge remained an important resource in practice, medicine as a representative aspect of culture (with technology and science) became, in Adas's memorable phrase, 'the measure of men'. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Now Americans finally cannot believe that there might be what they think is 'EU imperialism' when it comes to setting those standards."
Shortly after my meeting with Nicolas Thery, I had dinner with Robert Donkers, when he was back in Brussels for a visit to the home office. We met at Balthazar, a restaurant just down the block from the Berlaymont, a popular refuge for Eurocrats seeking a quiet place to cut deals amid the muted yellow walls and plush banquettes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 On top of that, thanks to Bush-contrived military imperialism, it has alienated every other nation in the world and has now become the most-hated nation on the planet. (If you don't believe me, just travel outside the U.S. and ask practically anybody you meet. Everybody hates the U.S.) It is now only a question of how long the current crippled facade of political power will last.
The passage of this FDA reform law is merely one more sign of how thoroughly committed the U.S. Congress is to creating a future of death, disease and bankruptcy for the American people. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Yet a confluence of interests—pharmaceutical companies pushing drugs for diseases that they invented, professional imperialism, and the cultural stereotyping of aging women—has too much momentum to stop. This is not an example of bad science so much as an example of inappropriate and even dangerous medical practice. And this: We should be more than a bit suspicious of claims about pills that produce fountains of youth or any other miracle.
COX-2 Inhibitors
We begin our story long after the beginning. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 The most famous part of this Pacific territory was Xoconochco (a Nahuatl word corrupted by the Spaniards to Soconusco); this was later to be a prime target for Aztec military and commercial imperialism, since its cacao was of the highest quality (it had a reputation as the best in the world up until the 19th century). In pre-Conquest times, there were constant battles to control the cacao-growing areas of the Boca Costa, and these were the main military objective of the most famous Quiche Maya king, Quicab. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Imperialism is freedom. And most of the population suffers from a variety of mental disorders that must be treated with psychotropic drugs. These are all consensus hallucinations. There are many more, in case you're curious.
During the dot-com boom, the consensus hallucination was that PE ratios meant nothing, that the laws of economics had changed, and that everybody was going to get rich selling each other little scraps of paper with increasingly large numbers written on them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Tip: In all speeches by President Bush, just replace the word "freedom" with "imperialism" and the whole thing suddenly makes sense.)
World newspapers slam Google for promoting them
Newspapers around the world are growing tired of Google News promoting their stories with headlines and traffic-generating links. "We don't want to be promoted on the web," said one French newspaper. "Just let us die in peace like the dinosaurs we truly are."
If there's one thing that old-school media people don't understand, it's the internet. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 Russia pursued a deliberate—sometimes open, sometimes covert—policy of imperialism in the north. The British and Americans were primarily interested in trade and the making of money, apart from their illusions that every Chinese was one of nature's Protestants. The French had the same illusion about Catholicism and the same greed about trade. The rivalry between merchants was almost exactly mirrored by the rivalry between Christian sects. The Chinese did not reveal their preferences, and acquired the reputation of being inscrutable, though perhaps they were only resentful and confused. |
| Before Zionism, the Irish lobby was the strongest in the nation; Irish fund raising (both legitimate and illegitimate) the most effective, Irish denigration of British imperialism the most articulate. The Irish turned America into a champion of the anti-imperialist school, delayed American entry into both world wars, and continue to blacken British political and diplomatic effort, however easy that may be to do.
In Ireland itself, the tribal struggles of a seventeenth-century ideological inconsequence continue. |
| Elizabeth conducted campaigns in Ireland continuously for twenty years, following a policy of negative imperialism: Her aim was to prevent the country falling into the hands of Spain. The history of her Irish wars is complicated and is best explained in the classic work on the subject, Cyril Falls's Elizabeth's Irish Wars, Methuen, 1950.
13. The idea of "plantation" included not only crops and men to work them, but also the master who was granted the right of plantation.
14. The earls who fled at this time were Tyrone, who was harassed and old, accompanied by Tyrconnel and Rory O'Donnell. |
Alex Steffen
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 Unencumbered by the old shibboleths over colonialism, imperialism, and other external adversaries, they can analyze issues with remarkable clarity and objectivity."
Africa Unchained: The Blueprint for Africa's Future by George B. N. Ayittey (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Controversial and confrontational, Ayittey doesn't pull punches when describing his theories of what has gone wrong with Africa and what might be done to fix its problems. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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 National self-determination is opposed to colonialism and imperialism. {See Fourteen Points.) nationalism The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination.
Nationalism is opposed to colonialism and imperialism. nationalization The taking over of private property by a national government.
NATO (nay-toh) See North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG
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 Here are a couple of examples of what might be termed intellectual imperialism, an assumption in the Western mind-set that we can spontaneously understand the concepts and visions of another culture.
There is a wealth of knowledge and experience in the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) community, but not all herbalists who use these insights have the necessary training in the principles of TCM. For example, consider the widely held idea in North American herbalism that, according to TCM, dang gui (Angelica sinensis) is a woman's herb and ginseng (Panax ginseng) is a man's herb. |
| Traditional Chinese medicine, ayurveda from the Vedic tradition of Hindu India, and unani from the world of Islam represent perhaps the best-known examples of philosophical systems that are still thriving in the face of the intellectual imperialism of Western medicine. Other systems are found in such diverse cultures as Japan and Ghana and wherever herbal medicine is integrated into spirituality and transformation, as in anthroposophical medicine.
The techniques of any medical system are an expression of its ideas and theories. |
E. D. Hirsch
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| A phrase used to justify European imperialism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; it is the title of a poem by Rud-yard Kipling. The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift the less advanced black and brown peoples.
Wilhelm ii (VIL-helm, WIL-helm) A German emperor, or kaiser, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After disagreements with Kaiser Wilhelm in the late nineteenth century, Otto von Bismarck resigned as head of the German government. |
E. Richard Brown
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 Missionaries were the velvet glove of imperialism, frequently backed up by the mailed fist. Nevertheless, the missionary effort, promoted through schools and medical programs, was still a very transparent attempt to support European and American interests. As J. A. Hobson, an English economist, noted at the time, "Imperialism in the Far East is stripped nearly bare of all motives and methods save those of distinctively commercial origin. |
E. D. Hirsch
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| Nationalism is opposed to colonialism and imperialism. nationalization The taking over of private property by a national government.
NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. natural rights Rights that people supposedly have under natural law. The Declaration of Independence of the United States lists life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights. neocolonialism The dominance of strong nations over weak nations, not by direct political control (as in traditional colonialism), but by economic and cultural influence.
Nobel laureate Someone who has been awarded a Nobel Prize. |
Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H.
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 And opposition to our "health care imperialism" may be stifled by trade agreements. The net results will likely be the raiding of social security funds in these countries and the further marginalization of the poor and their ability to get access to health care.
Americans Are Clueless on What Happens in Other Countries
Americans are generally uninformed about what is happening in other countries with respect to health care. They have no idea that corporate America is actively exporting our profit-driven approach to both industrialized and developing countries around the world. |
E. Richard Brown
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| In brief, "civilization" was equated in Gates' mind with industrial capitalism and imperialism.
What value did scientific medicine have for capitalism? Gates envisioned numerous material and social-political consequences flowing from medical science in a never-ending stream of support for capitalist society.
HEALTHIER WORKERS
The material benefit of medicine is a healthier population and thus a healthier work force. What Pasteur's work on anthrax had done for the French cattle industry, medical science could do for the whole society. |
| Hobson, an English economist, noted at the time, "Imperialism in the Far East is stripped nearly bare of all motives and methods save those of distinctively commercial origin."48
In China, as throughout the world, the Rockefeller philanthropists soon concluded that medicine and public health by themselves were far more effective than either missionaries or armies in pursuing the same ends. |
Christian Ratsch
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 Today, Coca-Cola often is regarded as a symbol of American cultural imperialism.
In Colombia, Erythroxylum novogranatense var. novogranatense increasingly is cultivated for the (illegal) production of cocaine.
Distribution
The two varieties of this coca species generally occur at lower altitudes than Erythroxylum coca (Towle 1961, 60*). The species prefers generally warmer climates. The variety novogranatense is indigenous chiefly to northern Colombia, both in the foothills of the Andes and in the Sierra Madre, and has been cultivated there by numerous Indian tribes since ancient times. |
| However, in our culture there is a deep chasm, a wound, for the people who preserved our own traditional knowledge have disappeared as a result of forced Christianization, imperialism, the Inquisition, the persecutions of witches, the Enlightenment, and positivism. And yet in spite of this, the psychoactive life continues to pulse in the inner cultures. And the archaic patterns continue to remain relevant, so appropriate uses of psychoactive substances continue to emerge. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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| Colonialism is a form of imperialism. intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) (buh-Lis-tik) A missile with a long range (5000 miles or more) that carries nuclear warheads, and can be launched from the ground or from submarines. {See also MIRV.) intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) A missile that carries nuclear warheads, and is launched from the ground or submarines, but has a range of only a few hundred to 1500 miles.
International Court of Justice A division of the United Nations that settles legal disputes submitted to it by member nations. |
| McKinley's presidency is often remembered as a time of rising American jingoism and imperialism.
Midway Island, Battle of A naval and air battle fought in World War ii in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific after Pearl Harbor.
Miranda decision (muh-ran-duh) A ruling by the Supreme Court in 1966 affecting the rights of persons under arrest. According to the Court's decision, persons being arrested must be informed of their rights against self-incrimination and their right to be advised by a lawyer. |
| The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift the less advanced black and brown peoples.
Wilhelm ii (viL-helm, wiL-helm) A German emperor, or kaiser, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After disagreements with Kaiser Wilhelm in the late nineteenth century, Otto von Bismarck resigned as head of the German government. Wilhelm then made aggressive moves abroad that increased instability throughout Europe. He ruled Germany in World War i, and abdicated after his country's defeat. |
E. D. Hirsch
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| Colonialism is a form of imperialism. intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) A missile with a long range (5000 miles or more) that carries nuclear warheads, and can be launched from the ground or from submarines. (See also MIRV.) intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) A missile that carries nuclear warheads, and is launched from the ground or submarines, but has a range of only a few hundred to 1500 miles.
International Court of Justice A division of the United Nations that settles legal disputes submitted to it by member nations. |
| The phrase implies that imperialism was motivated by a high-minded desire of whites to uplift the less advanced black and brown peoples.
Wilhelm ii (VIL-helm, WIL-helm) A German emperor, or kaiser, of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After disagreements with Kaiser Wilhelm in the late nineteenth century, Otto von Bismarck resigned as head of the German government. Wilhelm then made aggressive moves abroad that increased instability throughout Europe. He ruled Germany in World War i, and abdicated after his country's defeat. |
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