It was an integral part of greater Syria (consisting roughly of present-day “little” Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip). Palestine was sculpted as a separate political entity by the British Mandate as part of a package which included the Balfour..…

Compelled by intercapitalist competition to expand, merchants, industrialists, and petty commodity producers aimed to open the West to “free labor” in the form of commercial farms and wage labor in industry. In the South, British capitalism’s spiraling demand for cotton pressured the..…

Think of our Indian Wars, which lasted roughly 300 years (circa 1600–1890), or the British deployment on the North West Frontier (today’s Pakistan-Afghanistan border), which lasted 100 years (1840s–1940s). . . ..…

Presumably, when George W. Bush and Tony Blair sent US and British forces to attack Iraq in 2003, ousted its government, and replaced it with a regime operating under laws drafted by the Coalition Provisional Authority, this did not count as “conquest,” as these leaders never stated that..…