{"id":17003,"date":"2012-09-26T14:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T20:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=17003"},"modified":"2012-09-26T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T20:59:11","slug":"vijay-prashad-romney-and-churchills-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=17003","title":{"rendered":"Vijay Prashad:  Romney and Churchill\u2019s Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How Colonialism Became an Issue in the 2012 elections<\/p>\n<p>by VIJAY PRASHAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Mandarin Oriental Hotel at the edge of Hyde Park in London in late July 2012, Mitt Romney raised $2 million over drinks. His remarks were wistful. \u201cAs I drive past the sculpture of Winston Churchill,\u201d he said, \u201cit tugs at the heart strings to remember the kind of example\u201d that he set. \u201cAnd I\u2019m looking forward to the bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office again,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2012\/09\/26\/romney-and-churchills-bust\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=romney-and-churchills-bust\">Click here to continue reading, &#8216;Romney and Churchill\u2019s Bust&#8217; by Vijay Prashad<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arundhati Roy on the Palestinian \/ Israeli Conflict\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7vnaf8R_SJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/come-september-by-arundhati-roy\">Come September<\/a> by Arundhati Roy<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1937, Winston Churchill said of the Palestinians, I quote, &#8220;I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Colonialism Became an Issue in the 2012 elections by VIJAY PRASHAD In the Mandarin Oriental Hotel at the edge of Hyde Park in London in late July 2012, Mitt Romney raised $2 million over drinks. His remarks were wistful. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=17003\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-4qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17005,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions\/17005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}