The Empire Never Died

Challenging the numerous insidious aspects of current U.K. foreign policy amounts to nothing less than truly ending the British Empire

There’s long been a debate over whether Britain’s Empire — the largest the world has ever known — was a good or bad thing. There’s another question though – did it really end?

In some ways, obviously it did. Some 62 territories have gained independence from the U.K. in recent decades, mainly during the period from India’s fight for independence in 1947 until Zimbabwe’s in 1980.

But King Charles is still the head of state of 14 Commonwealth territories, from Australia to Saint Lucia, and the U.K. controls a further 14 “Overseas Territories,” such as Gibraltar and on the island of Cyprus.

The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation has a list of 17 territories which are “non-self governing,” or colonies in all but name. In 10 of them, the U.K. is the current administering power.

Many of the U.K.’s most important current military bases are in former colonies, such as Kenya and Belize.

U.K.-based multinational corporations, especially mining and oil companies, are still plundering the wealth of countries which used to be colonies and are now independent. There’s a strong correlation between where they operated then, and where they do now.

[consortiumnews.com]

I highlighted Australia because I know we have a couple of people from there that regularly participate on my post. And because it correlates to my many previous remarks about Caitlin Johnstone who has made a career out of attacking the US, citizens included on a wide derogatory scale, but rarely scolds her own country's involvement in the worldwide crimes committed by the controlled western governance over us all. Their thoughts?

I've brought this up on multiple occasions on my post. And I'm still sticking to it. Just add Little to the front of City.

{And money still being drained from those territories is regularly routed through U.K.-controlled island tax havens like the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands. Those territories are a true legacy of the City of London’s enormous commercial power in the era of formal colonialism.}

Ground zero of the empire. Now the united world empire. All crimes have originated from this ground zero. We face an international ruling elite that was organized after WWll. In which we are today facing the same scenarios on all levels that took us into that war. The British and US systems collapsed then, and they're collapsing today. Have been on an obvious scale since the GWB administration as it was handed over to Obama. See 2007-08.

I'd love to be able to say it's enlightening to see an article strengthen my comments as I go on in them. But these aren't enlightening attributes of our societies. But Mark just basically said the very same thing I did. I will add though, it's much more discreetly towards hiding your true nature of intentions and visual global military presence when you've handed that over to another colony of collaborators to serve as the bullying forces. Which is why people like Johnstone and many around the world can wag their fingers at the US government and our citizenship. As they pretend their governments are of some senses innocent in playing the same collaborate roles, where their citizens are just as hapless and entrapped in the same delusional scheme as us in the US.

{These projects can, under certain circumstances, benefit developing countries yet many are notorious for creating environmental disasters while producing profits for shareholders but bypassing local people.}

Which is why a growing number of African countries are turning away from European and US partnerships and going towards China and Russia today. Decolonization. China is putting vast amounts of money into infrastructure while She and Russia are promoting advancement of positive societal benefits. Russia has been a provider of free grain and fertilizer in recent years.

How much does the resource drain from the poorer world to the richer one add up to? Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics calculates that countries in the global South lost a staggering $62 trillion during 1960-2018 from “unequal exchange.”

Billions of tonnes of raw materials and billions of hours of human labour per year — embodied in primary commodities, high-tech industrial goods like smartphones, laptops, computer chips and cars — have come to be overwhelmingly manufactured in the South.

A hidden transfer of wealth takes place because prices paid for these are systematically lower in the South than in the North.

“Drain from the South remains a significant feature of the world economy in the post-colonial era; rich countries continue to rely on imperial forms of appropriation to sustain their high levels of income and consumption,” Hickel argues.

It’s hard to estimate what proportion of this Britain might be responsible for, but given its extensive global commercial role, one might conclude — “large.”

This is how job losses are created and or suppressed in western societies while the raping and plundering of countries happen when the potential of providing positive outcomes on both ends are present. One a hand you destroy a country by plundering, and suppress growth within your own. On the other hand, you suppress advancement of technology seen in places like China and Russia while discreetly keeping your own citizenships unaware on all levels.

It isn't about whether an empire has died or not. It's about recognizing how it grew! Who's in it now. What the makeup of it's intentions are. How and why it was formed. How much longer this particular version can manage to survive. What its going to take down with it. It is presenting going downward. And its already taking a lot down. Which the article goes on to deliver some of those points.