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America's imperial delusion The US drive for world domination has no historical precedent Eric Hobsbawm Saturday June 14, 2003 The Guardian The present world situation is unprecedented. The great global empires of the past - such as the Spanish and notably the British - bear little comparison with what we see today in the United States empire. A key novelty of the US imperial project is that all other empires knew that they were not the only ones, and none aimed at global domination. None believed themselves invulnerable, even if they believed themselves to be central to the world -...

LONDON: Fifty-seven years late and after 2.5 million Indian soldiers gallantly served, bled and died for the King and the Empire during the Second World War, the British Queen is finally honouring their sacrifice in stone and reminding the former Raj of its 'forgotten' heroes. But the controversy continues about whether Britain can really be reminded about something it never knew or wanted to know. This includes the heroism of 'greats' the average British schoolchild still knows nothing about, including Subedar Khudadad Khan, the first Indian holder of the Victoria Cross and RAF Squadron Leader Mahinder Singh Pujji, one of...