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“Wells is explicitly concerned with the #English, as the biggest #imperialists of the day. He says, more or less openly, that they deserve to be punished for their arrogance.” #HGWells #WarOfTheWorlds daily.jstor.org/the-evolutio...

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The Evolution of Britain's Invasion Fiction - JSTOR Daily

How fears of foreign plots and national decline moved from nineteenth-century novels into today's thrillers.

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Douglas Edwards

Mar 13

@frank Somewhere, astute old-style American #imperialists are facepalming and headdesking. They worked SO HARD to make sure American products and services were so seductively useful and reliable that no one would be tempted to do without them — to ensure that our exploitive worldwide monopolies could be maintained. Now the ship of state has become a ship of fools, so arrogant that they imagine there will never be any consequences for the outrages they commit. But there will. Those classic monopolies are hemorrhaging good will.

Claire McNab Mar 9

Don't be distracted. #Trump's attacks on #Iran are a war of aggression, the ultimate #WarCrime.

The attacks were badly planned, but don't follow the American #Democrats into the folly of criticising lack of planning. Courts treat good planning of a crime as an aggravating factor, not as mitigation.

This imperialist slaughter would be no less criminal if meticulously planned. On the contrary, it would be much worse.

Only #imperialists want competent #imperialism.

Focus on the criminality.