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  • In November 2009, President Ahmadinejad of Iran capped off a Latin American tour with his fourth visit to Venezuela, where he was warmly embraced literally by President Chávez, who praised the Iranian leader as a “gladiator of the anti-imperial struggle.”

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • In November 2009, President Ahmadinejad of Iran capped off a Latin American tour with his fourth visit to Venezuela, where he was warmly embraced literally by President Chávez, who praised the Iranian leader as a “gladiator of the anti-imperial struggle.”

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • But the pro-Communist, Russian-speaking Wallace was much more frank and open about airing anti-imperial opinions than was his more secretive and unpredictable boss.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • In the New World, too, the imagery of anti-imperial revolution was in the air.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • Much later, during the Cold War, mythmakers in Washington performed a similar act, substituting a monolithic crew labeled & ldquo; godless communists” for a disparate group of anti-imperial nationalists in an attempt to transform conflicts in remote locations like Vietnam, Guatemala, and Iran into epic struggles between the forces of the Free World and the forces of evil.

    John Feffer: The Lies of Islamophobia: The Three Unfinished Wars of the West Against the Rest John Feffer 2010

  • Isolationism and anti-imperial sentiment remained still a potent force in American politics.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • In the New World, too, the imagery of anti-imperial revolution was in the air.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • In the New World, too, the imagery of anti-imperial revolution was in the air.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • An anti-imperial European Union has borders no less porous than the supposedly imperial America or those that the Romans tried to maintain along the Rhine and Danube.

    America as a new Rome? 2010

  • Some of the president ' s allies are even trotting out old anti-imperial slogans to frame the election as a ballot for which party can better resist pressure from foreign powers.

    Mugabe Tries to Turn U.S. Comments Into Campaign Issue 2010

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