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- noun A
country , especially a formercolony ,controlled ordominated by another country, by the use ofeconomic pressure ,political suppression andcultural dominance .
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Examples
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In Cuba, when they came to visit the neo-colony, they sat astride the neck of Jose Marti's statue, in the capital's Central Park.
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What the snake oil merchants like Fred Kagan and Bill Kristol both of them hard right Zionists are really saying is that if you just give them $2 trillion more, boy do they have a deal on a neo-colony for you.
Iraq is Still a Bad Bargain News from Mad Plato 2008
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What the snake oil merchants like Fred Kagan and Bill Kristol both of them hard right Zionists are really saying is that if you just give them $2 trillion more, boy do they have a deal on a neo-colony for you.
Archive 2008-01-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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He sees China taking on "features of both a neo-colony and an emerging imperial power," but mostly the former.
Reviewing James Petras' "Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire 2007
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However, Anil's party further compounds the problem while rejecting semi-colony, neo-colony and such Leninist, Maoist formulations.
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This indirect rule in the form of neo-colony has remained as the perpetual dependence on imperialism as evident in the so-called free countries like India.
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This indirect rule in the form of neo-colony has remained as the perpetual dependence on imperialism as evident in the so-called free countries like India.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007
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"The overall intention is clearly to turn Zimbabwe into a neo-colony."
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They bought into the idea of a neo-colony in the Middle East pumping Iraqi oil fields dry.
Firedoglake » With Debate in the House, Thoughts on Iraq and the So-Called WOT 2006
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Marti fighting for ten years with nothing, and struggling for approximately 30 years for the independence of this country so that it could later be turned into a Yankee neo-colony.
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