"Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew……" — Loretta Napoleoni
"Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia."
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Loretta Napoleoni
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11 Quotes by Loretta Napoleoni
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Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.
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I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too…
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Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution…
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Multiculturalism may well be our saviour, wresting us out from the straitjacket of our history, thrusting the old continent into…
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Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those…
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I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in…
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The majority of the cocoa that we eat, it is actually produced by young kids which are being enslaved in…
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Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us…
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Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.
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Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist…
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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