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In selecting his two immediate predecessors, those who have set US policy in the Caribbean since 1993, Obama demonstrates that the devastating human tragedy in Haiti will not bring any alteration in the rapacious role of US imperialism in that impoverished semi-colonial country.
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In selecting his two immediate predecessors, those who have set US policy in the Caribbean since 1993, Obama demonstrates that the devastating human tragedy in Haiti will not bring any alteration in the rapacious role of US imperialism in that impoverished semi-colonial country.
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The labor history of these semi-colonial atolls intersects with the often-forgotten history of America's expansion in the Pacific: American Samoa, a collection of volcanic islands southwest of Hawaii, was taken over by the U.S. around the turn of the 20th century as part of an agreement with Britain and Germany.
Minimum Wage, and Controversy, Reaches Distant U.S. Islands 2010
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It took almost 250 years of political instability, a semi-colonial occupation, a Japanese invasion and a Communist Revolution before China could once again compete on equal footing with the Western, Japanese and Korean economies.
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Therefore, all the ethnic units in China, including the Han, were not minzu but buzu (narodnost in Russian), a stage between tribe (buluo) and nation (minzu) in the linear Marxist social trajectory, because China before 1949 was labeled as "semi-feudal and semi-colonial," 19 a precapitalist society.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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The labor history of these semi-colonial atolls intersects with the often-forgotten history of America's expansion in the Pacific: American Samoa, a collection of volcanic islands southwest of Hawaii, was taken over by the U.S. around the turn of the 20th century as part of an agreement with Britain and Germany.
Michelle Chen: Minimum Wage, and Controversy, Reaches Distant U.S. Islands 2010
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Note 19: Maoism sees China between 1840 (the Opium War) and 1949 as "semi-feudal and semi-colonial," which has been the official interpretation of modern China society. back
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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It must be mentioned that the Bangalee nationalism, developed under the semi-colonial rule of Pakistan, was demonstrated in the language movement of 1952 in which students were the main players of that bleeding full struggle.
Campus violence a socio-political problem in Bangladesh 2009
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East Bengal of British India joined with Pakistan federation by a referendum, and disillusioned only after one year in 1948 to go for a struggle of emancipation from the semi-colonial rule of Pakistan and achieved independence in 1971 by sacrificing lives of millions.
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Zilla Parishad is very much active from the semi-colonial Pakistani rule till today.
Bangladesh: Strong Local Government for Better Democracy 2009
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