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  • Why not own one's future instead of being colonialized economically, and dependent upon the Western companies supplying everything from pharmaceuticals to entertainment, or by Western contracts imposed by the World Bank and the forced indebtedness of the IMF?

    Vivian Norris de Montaigu: Inclusive Capitalism Not Economic Colonialism: the G20 and the Future 2009

  • Veterans of undeclared U.S. wars, invasions and occupations of weaker nations of the former colonialized Third World do not enjoy this kind of stature.

    Veterans Day is for many: ���Veterans Lied to and Ashamed Day' 2009

  • By apologizing for CIA activity, the incoming president could in one fell swoop both indicate a change in America's behavior toward the nations of the former colonialized world that have never really escaped continued economic exploitation by the governments of the industrialized countries, AND by doing so be seen to be seeking U.S. public opinion support for reining in the CIA's power to distablize countries for short sighted investment opportunities.

    Call Obama Re His Stiff One-Sided Remarks For Iran on Meet the Press 2008

  • I don't see any threat that we will change the Constitution [to make Indonesia an Islamic state] unless there is a foreign invasion into Indonesia, or Indonesia is colonialized by other nations.

    Interview: 'Arrest Me First' 2008

  • While in some eras colonialized goods were probably authentic, a more complete lesson for young women would include material and manufacturing skills as well as marketing and celebrity PR.

    RACE, CLASS AND GENDER IN THE AMERICAN GIRL EMPIRE » Sociological Images 2008

  • WalMart is the logical result of a globalized economy colonialized at both ends by multinationals, a model of mass consumption that begins in giant sweatshops and ends with communities crushed like roadkill in the company's wake.

    Charlie Cray: Wal-Mart's War on America 2008

  • In his first news conference in Brazil, the leader of the revolution stressed that if we do not unite we will be colonialized.

    Reportage on Castro Visit to Brazil 1990

  • I see that one of the ways of remaining dependent and colonialized is through the monopoly of the mass media, of the control it has.

    CASTRO ATTENDS COLONEL'S FUNERAL SERVICE 1986

  • Cienfuegos, they fought some of the most brilliant and most famous battles of our liberating Army: the Battle of Mal Tiempo. [applause] Throughout the period of the colonialized and exploited Republic, the Cienfuegos region actively participated in the labor movement and in the student struggles.

    COMMEMORATES MONCADA ASSAULT 1984

  • We cannot deny that someone who struggles for the independence of his fatherland in a colonialized or neocolonialized country and that someone who fights for the freedom of a tyrannized country is a revolutionary.

    CASTRO READS MAIN REPORT AT PCC CONGRESS 1980

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