... United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me t... ...ericanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is har... ...it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted... ...led Roman one. Actually, the author thinks aloud, isn't America's reign merely the successor of Britain's? Wasn't it John Locke, a British philosop... ... city-state was no more. It has matured into an Empire. And now, to Rome's crippled successor, Byzantium. The modus operandi of the United States in... ...y spread inexorably throughout the fertile Anatolia, confronting in the process the Byzantines and the Mongols. They were no match to the brute effi... ...the Marble (Marmara) Sea. His desperate struggles against the corrupt and decadent Byzantines, made him the Robin Hood, the folk hero of the millio... ...ht the Islamic terrorism on its borders all by itself. Mercenaries imported by the Byzantines from Europe served only to destabilize it further. Os... ...ported by the Byzantines from Europe served only to destabilize it further. Osman's successors tore Byzantium to hemorrhaging shreds, conquering the...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

...y of this little novel to a beautiful girl of seventeen, the daughter of a statesman in Westmoreland, not designing any deception (nor so much as any ... ...ny ways give to herself, must feel that she has her own separate domain of empire unaffected by the most sov- ereign beauty upon earth. Every man that... ... argued that his profession was sure to exist; that, if he were removed, a successor would inevitably arise, and that successor might or might not car... ...hts and value of the office, which you—a mere locum tenens for some coming successor—had no right to do upon a solitary scruple or crotchet, arising p... ... from their want of public journals, combined with territorial grandeur of empire. The greatest possible defect of harmony arises naturally in this wa... ... revolu- tion variable and advancing under the vast varieties of the Roman empire. Having no newspapers to effect a level amongst the inequalities and... ...r: GREECE, in the largest extent of that term, having once belonged to the Byzantine empire, is included, by the mis- conception of hasty readers, in ... ...lves not less of the decrepitude which had by that time begun to palsy the Byzantine sceptre, than of the martial and religious fanaticism which disti... ...itical designs, expired at Munich in 1807; but not before it had founded a successor more directly political. Hence arose a confusion, under which 21...

...rom a high doctrinal religion, let us seek an illustration from our Indian empire. The Christian missionaries from home, when first opening their view... ...nfluence for these parties, either dangerous to the supreme section of the empire, or else nugatory for each of themselves. It is a separate considera... ...he great and ancient settlements on the Nile, and on the other by the vast empire that for thousands of years occupied the Tigris and the Euphrates. I... ...ly, by the continuance of the same medical gifts to the apostles and their successors, all exercised the same powers, and benefited by the same privil... ...in order to lay the earliest tidings of the great event at the feet of her successor. In reality, never did any death cause so much posting day and ni... ..., when some act of command was thoughtlessly suggested as belonging to his successor—‘Not whilst I live, Hardy; not whilst I live.’ Yet, in Lord Londo... ...est to the commencement of what Mr. Finlay, in a peculiar sense, calls the Byzantine empire. These incidents have nowhere been systematically or conti... ...s of power from all further concurrence or coalition with the views of the Byzantine Caesar. Constantinople was from that date thrown back more upon i... ...r. This new and final state of the eastern Rome Mr. Finlay denominates the Byzantine em- pire. Possibly this use of the term may be capable of justifi...

...illed by Anarchist violence, many millions are killed by the vio- lence of States. We may, therefore, dismiss from our minds the whole question of vio... ...rs and carpenters for their skill with clay and wood. Those who govern the empire make the same mistake. Now I regard government of the empire from qu... ...d. And then, with their gushing over music and fussing over ceremony , the empire became divided against itself.[“Musings of a Chinese Mystic.” Select... ...ions. It recognizes that all actually existing political and authoritarian States, reduc- ing themselves more and more to the mere administrative func... ...vertheless con- tinued to think in terms of nations. His longest work, “L ’Empire Knouto-Germanique et la Revolution Sociale,” is mainly concerned wit... ...“Let us leave indiscriminate killing and injuring to the Government—to its Statesmen, its Stockbrokers, its Officers, and its Law.” (“An- 42 Proposed... ...ommunity as consumers, there shall also be a “Guild Congress,” a glorified successor of the present T rade Union Congress, which shall consist of repr... ...ill there still be a sufficient spur to progress to prevent a condition of Byzantine immobility? In considering this question we are, in a certain sen...