I also second Scott’s recommendation of Sven Lindqvist, especially A History of Bombing, which is one of the most unconventional histories you will ever read. Scott notes this about Lindqvist’s work:

Beginning with an Italian aviator dropping a hand grenade from a light plane over Tripoli, [Sven] Lindqvist shows that almost all the torments Europeans inflicted on one another were first tested and refined in the colonies and on people whose rights and sufferings were not considered to have risen to the level of white Europeans.

*Thanks to gess for this title. I thought the same when reading the review in my copy of LRB, but since he put it down into 1s and 0s first the credit need to go the right person.

Forget compensation. France is not even able to face up to its colonial past.

“The peace process is not, and should not be, affected by any kind of settlement [colonial] activities…”

On the question of settlements, a Reuters investigation has found that the US offers tax breaks to organisations which donate money to “settlers” (colonalists). The tax exemptions appear to be at odds with public statements by US officials regarding “settlements” (colonies).

It was not [...] during the Islamic period that the dramatic break with India’s erotic traditions occurred; instead that change took place during the colonial period with the arrival of evangelical Christian missionaries in the mid-nineteenth century. Responding to the evangelical diatribes about “Hindoo immorality,” a new generation of British-educated Hindu reformers began critically to reexamine their own traditions. A movement arose advocating the banning of courtesans, and chastity and modesty were elevated as the ideal attributes of Hindu womanhood.

Consistent stands against the depravity of the West Bank’s lawless settlers [colonialists] are the only way to put an end to their crimes.