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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Neo-colonization and proposed Free Trade Agreements: Towards a better understanding of the conflict in “post-conflict” Colombia http://stewart-in-colombia.blogspot.com/2010/05/neo-colonization-and-proposed-free.html

By today's standards it is difficult to justify the morality of the conquest and subsequent colonization of Africa, much of Asia and the Americas by predominantly white, militarily-superior, European powers during the previous millennium. What was once assumed as evidently being God's will –"Manifest Destiny" as it was called at the time—is no longer a politically acceptable justification for the invasion, genocide, dispossession and colonization of other peoples' countries and other peoples' lands.  

But colonization continues. New rhetoric and new politically acceptable justifications have replaced the old Christian imperative that one must conquer in order to save the souls of the conquered. New moral imperatives oblige the new generation of colonialists to further freedom and economic development of the lost souls of the world, those who are excluded from the benefits of free market economics and who still wallow in the darkness of underdevelopment. It is this re-branding of colonization that some refer to as neo-colonization.

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