The constant injustice in and pillage of [these] communities is systematic.
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"They are not free to rape, pillage and torture," she said.
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Pirates pillage Mets, 205-21 (in both games in a doubleheader).
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Curfews, torture, mass killings, pillage and carnage were his regime's hallmark.
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And there are plenty of empty super-Earths to pillage for resources.
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"Instead, they devised a scheme to pillage Valeant and share the proceeds."
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I wouldn't want anything disturbing our guests from their rape and pillage.
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That patchwork, conservationists argue, has left the high seas open to pillage.
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Meanwhile, the Dothraki are just perpetually up for a good pillage, it seems.
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They're just here to rape and pillage the Earth, and spread their violent seed.
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There are still hours yet left to pillage your nearby purveyor of comic paraphernalia.
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Rick and Daryl stop at a gas station to see what they can pillage.
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Clinton would pillage the pocketbooks of regular Americans and work to enrich her cronies.
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And how long before the House of Saud moves in to pillage Alwaleed's vast holdings?
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Eichmann&aposs henchmen pillage Jewish shops, dispossess their owners and drive people onto the streets.
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Notably, the family is spared the brutality, rape and methodical pillage suffered by the common people.
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Repeated counter-insurgencies, accompanied by aerial bombing and widespread pillage, left the region impoverished and depopulated.
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Oh, for the days when Goths, Vandals and Nazis were free to rape, pillage and plunder.
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"They're going to rape and pillage our soil," said Art Tanderup, whose farm near Neligh, Neb.
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Yet soldiers based in Maiduguri allowed Boko Haram to pillage Dalori for hours before driving them out.
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"Let's have a united voice against pillage of Africa, it's the only home we have," it said.
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Flying into Baghdad Monday, Mattis told reporters the US wasn't entrenched in the country to pillage its resources.
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In Maeve's understanding, the Ghost Nation showed up in the name of violence, to attack, pillage and plunder.
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But they can protect cities and are the only force that Congolese trust not to slaughter and pillage.
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We just go through cities and rape and pillage every club and that's what we love about this.
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History is only repeating itself now as escaped Rwandan war lords pillage the land, leaving the Congolese despondent.
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So let's pillage the blue to give to the red,'" Cuomo told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day.
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And pillage is a basic violation of the laws of war in general, not just the 1954 Hague convention.
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Bishop Ochiagha served Biafra as a diplomat and watched the rape and pillage that accompanied its defeat in 1970.
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Myanmar has gotten away with a brutal campaign of murder, rape and pillage directed at the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Bemba had armed his troops and then paid them so little that they were spurred to pillage, Steiner said.
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He had previously been held responsible for an epidemic of murder, rape and pillage committed by fighters under his command.
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According to a number of Thrones theorists, Dany's refusal to eat in Episode 5 was more than pre-pillage jitters.
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According to several studies, revenues from what is essentially looting and pillage probably made up 40% of the group's income.
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"We must not allow corporations to pillage our public lands and leave taxpayers to clean up the mess," she wrote.
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The show assumes there's no shortage of people who want to kill innocents, who want to rape and pillage and torture.
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The neighbors didn't have an ice maker, so, often, one of them would swing by to pillage Joseph's ice and chat.
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He threatens to send fighters to pillage Iran, which he holds ultimately responsible for the Iraqi army's strike against the Kurds.
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Pillage Your Closet: Nearly every parent that WIRED's Senior Writer Adrienne So spoke to used goods around the house for crafts.
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Even for this country that has suffered decades of war, accompanied by massacres, rape and pillage, the Kavumu events shock the conscience.
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Yes, the world of nations is full of arbitrary borders, invented traditions, and convenient mythologies layered atop histories of plunder and pillage.
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Seoul's foreign ministry expressed "deep concerns" over Abe sending the offering to a shrine that "beautifies Japan's colonial pillage and aggressive war".
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Nature's reminder to pillage the basement for the leaf blower and that college moving box you're still using to store fall clothes.
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That left the rebel militias to pillage the stores where Ukraine — one of the world's biggest arms manufacturers - kept its sizable arsenal.
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"The verdict says to police officers that you can lie, cheat, steal, rape, rob and pillage, and it's O.K.," said the Rev.
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The L.R.A. is notorious for its use of child soldiers but has also carried out massacres, sexual violence, mutilations, pillage and abductions.
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Cersei begs off, promising to finance her excesses through pillage, which is not a column that usually exists on late rent notices.
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Britain's refusal to consider returning the stone is widely seen as just one example of the government's unapologetic attitude towards colonial-era pillage.
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"The facts have shown that rape was systematic, as was pillage, and was perpetrated in a humiliating way, anywhere, anytime, by multiple rapists."
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After six seasons worth of murder, pillage, war, and zombie attacks, it seems there would hardly be anyone left in Westeros to fight.
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And in "It Takes A Pillage," New Republic news editor Alex Shephard looks at how Trump is helping to revive the book publishing industry.
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Democrats who let the banksters off the hook so they could pillage African American and Hispanic communities with their subprime mortgages of mass destruction.
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The long list of offenses includes murder, rape, sexual slavery, enlisting child soldiers, persecution, forcible transfer and deportation, pillage and intentionally directing attacks against civilians.
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Neither the aliens nor the man fighting them has any specific ideology beyond power: for freedom to pillage the underclass and freedom from being pillaged.
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Taylor says the town would pillage pension funds, cutback on its municipal workforce and that the effects would be huge (shuttering schools, cutting police manpower).
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THE ANARCHYThe East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an EmpireBy William Dalrymple Nowadays, almost every M.B.A. program includes classes on business ethics.
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Some historians argue that neither sacking was as bad as it might have been, but that surely depends on your tolerance for rape and pillage.
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As Levy says (in, one imagines, a froth of capitalist hubris), he plans to "rape and exploit and pillage whatever" he wants to make a buck.
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But it is also unusual for Congress to pillage money that provides health insurance to the poor and hand it to rich people and large corporations.
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As a result of its left-wing decadence and self-hatred, Europe fails to realize the threat it faces until the refugee hordes land and pillage.
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In the popular imagination, the Viking ship was the scourge of the North Sea, allowing its crew to sack and pillage the British Isles and Normandy.
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Even if there are no archaeological finds, there is certainly a chance to commemorate the asylum and memorialize its pillage in some form at the new building.
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I will rape and exploit and pillage whatever I want and I will sell it for thousands while u sit here and just feed me more attention.
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Disagreement over Medicaid (to burn or to pillage) is already fracturing Senate Republicans, some of whom have pretty much given up the idea of passing a bill.
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It also expressed alarm earlier this month at allegations of serious human rights abuses including pillage, destruction of property, arbitrary detention and a video of summary executions.
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He had been convicted of murder, rape and pillage for actions by fighters he sent to Central African Republic to back CAR's then-president Ange-Felix Patasse.
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The lawsuit that Gardner filed on Monday alleges that the city used the perjury investigation as an "unconstitutional" excuse to ransack her office and pillage her files.
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With healthy doses of irony and camp, Al Solh's works poked fun at autocratic politicians in moments of excess, surrounded by the trappings of plunder and pillage.
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For three decades, punks, club kids, and drag queens have all frequented this wonderland to pillage its overpacked racks for vintage Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul Gaultier.
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N. envoy * Accuses Israel of "apparent act of pillage" at stone quarries * Israeli delegation boycotts session at Human Rights Council * Israel mission rejects "latest farcical report" By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, March 18 (Reuters) - Israel is depriving millions of Palestinians of access to a regular supply of clean water while stripping their land of minerals "in an apparent act of pillage", a United Nations human rights investigator said on Monday.
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"Aggressive hate speeches by Bolsonaro and members of his government are encouraging the invasion and pillage of land and violence against indigenous peoples," CIMI said in a statement.
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" Greenway approved of genocide because "without war and raiding and scalping and rape and pillage and slavetaking the Indian was as aimless as a chiropractor without a spine.
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So far, the first two episodes have showcased how this environment brings out the worst in people, as guests rape and pillage their way through the Wild West.
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The fact that the Democrats now control one house of Congress means that President Trump's pillage of environmental regulations will at least proceed under the spotlight of investigation.
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They reserved special contempt for the South Vietnamese military, which had fled at the first sign of trouble only to pillage the city's remains once the dust settled.
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"Collectors certainly use Instagram, forums, and other online resources to find new populations to pillage," wrote Melissa Amarello, co-founder of Advocates for Snake Preservation, in an email.
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Compounding the effect of shrinking habitats, when mane wolves come closer to human settlement they are often hunted in defense of chicken coops, which they are apt to pillage.
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The ICC quashed his convictions in May related to murder, rape and pillage by fighters he sent to Central African Republic to back CAR's then-president Ange-Felix Patasse.
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When the action opens, Jacques Jaujard, deputy head of the Louvre, is packing up the contents of the museum in order to spare France's art collection from Nazi pillage.
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"People underestimated Donald Trump's ability to pillage the company," said Sebastian Pignatello, a private investor who at one time held stock in the Trump casinos worth more than $500,000.
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A brutal civil war here in the world's newest country has led government forces to burn villages, kill unarmed farmers, castrate boys, rape women and girls, and pillage hospitals.
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The disturbing stories of "global oceanic pillage" compiled in this record of life on the high seas demonstrate the often dire results of the failure to police international waters.
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Bacteria and fungi similarly break down dead plants and animals to pillage materials and energy from them, releasing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere as they do so.
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But for me, Mr. President, restitution must come after reparations for the still ongoing pillage and despoliation by Europe and other foreign powers of Africa's material and natural resources.
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The accounts of death and pillage contradict assertions by the Angolan government that Congolese migrants are returning home voluntarily and that only one person died, in a traffic accident.
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Drifters from the conflict, skilled in pillage but unable to find gainful employment (of which there is little), have left a deep pool from which groups like CODECO can recruit.
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So is William a "good guy" because he doesn't want to rape and pillage with Logan, or is he bad simply by being there and taking part in the "fun"?
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And in December, PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest private bank, was rescued by the government after years of pillage and incompetence by bank leaders who used depositors' money for their own gain.
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They can screen Un Chien Andalou in the school cafeteria just as easily as they can play hooky, or they can pillage The Criterion Collection from their laptops in bed.
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But the idea that every Muslim is in fact a sleeper waiting to pillage and pollute the Christian West gets a sympathetic hearing in the highest office in the land.
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Their subjects — a mythically fierce female warrior, a real Celtic tribesman of a kind known to pillage Greek settlements — embodied cosmic forces seen as ever-threatening to the Hellenic civilization.
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The ICC quashed Bemba's convictions in May related to murder, rape and pillage by fighters he sent to Central African Republic to back the country's then-president Ange-Felix Patasse.
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Cities around the world are realizing that water can be a cultural and recreational asset, not something to hide or pillage, and it seems no waterway will be wasted for long.
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Such a meeting would have been unheard of in the past, market players say, in a country where offshore activists were seen as "foreign vultures" seeking to pillage precious corporate savings.
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So the private equity kingpins who pillage companies and walk away get tax subsidies to pull it off, and this incentivizes them to borrow even more to run the game again.
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A person born into the faith, he was seeking answers about the its history, naming past issues of "polygamy, child abuse, stoning disobedient children, pillage, plunder, sexism, racism" in the letter.
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The most egregious recent example is Myanmar, whose 90% Buddhist majority felt so threatened by a Rohingya Muslim minority of barely 1% that it sanctioned burning, pillage, murder, rape and enforced exile.
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Earlier, a U.N. human rights investigator said Israel was depriving millions of Palestinians of access to regular clean water supplies and stripping the land of minerals "in an apparent act of pillage".
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"They are just going to come in and rape and pillage and eat the fruit and have it run down their faces," said "House of Lies" creator and executive producer Matthew Carnahan.
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My immediate impulse was to pillage the Trump effigy and retreat to the toilet, anesthetizing myself from the pain by emotionlessly chugging as many bottles as I could fit in my pockets.
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One of the incentives that every other army on the colony had — be it the French army, the British army, or the Spanish army — was if they won, they got to pillage.
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At his rallies and during the debates, Mr. Trump has painted a dark picture of an America overrun by foreign criminals who come here to rape, pillage and murder our innocent civilians.
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"Considering all the wars and all the rape and pillage that has taken place ... I know I can't certify that I was not a part of a product of that," King said.
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Bemba, who did not speak at the hearing, received three sentences of 18 years for rape and pillage and two of 16 years for murder, all of which will be served concurrently.
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"The verdict sends a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury, and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end," he said.
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Boko Haram would find it harder to recruit footsoldiers if hungry young men did not see picking up a rifle as an attractive career move, leading as it does to opportunities for pillage.
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U.S. officials and private experts say they fear that as the African military pressure intensifies, the extremists could shift from a regional campaign of suicide bombings, rape and pillage to striking international targets.
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But industry practices have come a long way from the pillage of centuries past when mountainsides were recklessly stripped bare of trees, with no consideration towards stewardship or the health of nearby communities.
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Reports of the decrees' provisions drew outcry from across the political spectrum, with one human rights activist, George Kapiamba, labelling it "an attempt to perpetuate a system of the pillage of public funds".
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But as Americans began to conquer and pillage Native American nations across what is now the continental U.S., destroying bison populations became a key part of the American strategy to ruin Native American livelihood.
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Sure, your stockholders probably aren't thrilled you have thousands of pairs of Spectacles sitting in a warehouse, or that Instagram continues to pillage your app features, but we all want to forget 2017 anyway.
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Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir—an indicted war criminal and génocidaire—has led Sudan's armed forces and militias to rape, pillage, and kill the non-Arab populations of Darfur, South Kordofan, and Blue Nile.
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Cargo VPN No matter what your social media privacy settings are, the cold truth is that the internet is dangerous, full of scallywags and mal-contents that want to pillage your data for loot.
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Like all lackluster villains, he reveals his plan, which is to drive them back to wherever they came from, pillage more of their shit, and in the meantime, he'll kill a couple of them.
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They know that it is both wrong and illegal to engage in acts that long have defined other less scrupulous armies — rape, pillage, torture, murder of one's foes, and intentional attacks upon a civilian population.
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The Dutch East India Company, the world's first publicly listed company, profited "by war, rape, pillage and colonization," said Stephen Davis, associate director and senior fellow of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance.
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It could yet serve as a rallying point for a Republican Party that can save itself from dishonor, win its share of elections, and stand up to the honey badgers who mean to pillage it.
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To accelerate mining in the Amazon in 2017 would only refresh the cycle of pillage, boom and bust that has plagued the world's largest forest since the first marauders arrived in search of El Dorado.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - South Sudan's government operated a "scorched earth policy" of deliberate rape, pillage and killing of civilians during the civil war in 2015, a report published on Friday by the U.N. human rights office said.
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Dressing up in what Victorians imagined Native American princesses might wear, on the stump she stirred her audiences with tales of rape and pillage—of white men terrorizing Native American homes and women, not the reverse.
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The first episode, which you can listen to above, recounts a group of runaway slaves enlisted by the Union Army to burn and pillage the plantation from whence they came (thanks, in part, to Harriet Tubman!).
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Having bypassed the previous three "Purge" movies — in which, once a year, Americans are free to murder, rape and pillage with impunity — I came to their prequel, "The First Purge," with virgin eyes and zero expectations.
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"It's very important to understand the difference between the worldview of the indigenous communities and the extractivist model, which really means dispossession and the pillage of the natural goods of nature," Bertha Zúniga Cáceres told Democracy Now.
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The ensuing fighting and violence, which has often taken place along ethnic lines, has uprooted about a quarter of the country's population, with both government troops and rebels accused of committing crimes including rape, killings and pillage.
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Jean-Pierre Bemba (pictured), the head of the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo—and a former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo—was found guilty of crimes against humanity, including rape and pillage.
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Speaking of Myanmar, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi skipped the U.N. meeting, after being feted last year, because it's awkward to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner who defends a brutal campaign of murder, rape and pillage.
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The long list of offenses, committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2002 and 2003, included murder, rape, sexual slavery, enlisting child soldiers, persecution, forcible transfer and deportation, pillage and intentionally directing attacks against civilians.
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So it's a different context from when the East India Company came at the point of a gun and imposed its view, and proceeded to rape and pillage the countryside and send the proceeds off to England.
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With the warrior planet here through March 31, you will be compelled to spend your money on luxury items, so make sure you have the money for it first—Mars is known to pillage pockets in this placement.
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THE HAGUE, March 21 (Reuters) - Judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday found Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of war crimes, including murder, rape and pillage during a 2001-2002 conflict in the Central African Republic.
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"It would be a wonderful thing to see if the Chinese government would put more handcuffs so to speak on that ability to pillage other people's intellectual property," said Seth Kaplowitz, finance lecturer at San Diego State University.
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George Washington warned the nation in his Farewell Address against would-be strongmen and demagogues who would pillage the government for private profit, and intertwine America with intrigues and entanglements from hostile foreign powers that wish us ill.
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Here the motto is "Live Dirty, Eat Clean,'' which seems to sum up rather efficiently the prevailing ethics of the current moment: "Plunder and pillage all you want, just stay away from trans fats and farm-raised salmon.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - A litany of killing, rape, mutilation, pillage and torture committed by successive governments and armed groups in Central African Republic from 20153-15 may constitute crimes against humanity, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday.
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Bemba was acquitted on appeal at the International Criminal Court of war crimes and crimes against humanity for murder, rape and pillage committed by fighters he sent to Central African Republic in 2002 but his witness tampering conviction stands.
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The movie gathers itself, builds up another head of steam, and launches an astonishing third act, with more and more people arriving at the house, which they proceed to pillage, effectively wrecking its chances of appearing in Elle Decor .
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"The Dead Sea and its plentiful natural resources, part of which lies within the occupied Palestinian territory, is off-limits to any Palestinian development while Israeli companies are permitted to harvest the minerals in an apparent act of pillage," he added.
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" Cuomo said the move to eliminate the state and local tax deduction "put a dagger in the heart of New York and California," and that the Republicans leading Congress basically said, "Let's pillage the blue to give to the red.
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The ruling coalition said last week he is disqualified from running by a witness tampering conviction at the ICC, even though convictions for murder, rape and pillage committed by his militia in neighboring Central African Republic in 2002 were thrown out.
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"This verdict sends a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end," tweeted Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody, who was inside the courthouse.
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The world has paid dearly for the tragic results of this timorous policy: violent clashes between the opposition and security forces, army mutiny and pillage, violence against ethnic communities, armed rebellion and foreign intervention, a war that left over three million dead.
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The leader of the community wants the Trading Company on the island so that he can improve the quality of life for his people, but the player knows that it would come with, well, what trading companies do to communities they pillage.
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"Those who've been pillaging the state in one way or another will pillage as much as possible until the last possible moment, so that when the game is over, they will be set for the rest of their lives," Mr. Chikane said.
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General Hamdan faced global condemnation after June 3 when his paramilitary unit, the Rapid Support Forces, stormed through a protest site in central Khartoum, killing at least 118 people in a frenzy of shooting, rape and pillage, according to witnesses and doctors' groups.
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But soon after she moved to Blacklands, with its rolling meadows, endless lawns and groves of meticulously trimmed cedar of Lebanon, oak and beech trees, friends began asking her to pillage her cutting garden to make bouquets or create arrangements for private parties.
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This year, readers interested in the history of India have rightly turned to the masterly "The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire," William Dalrymple's account of the British East India Company's behavior in the colonial era.
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I am a 70-year-old retiree, and the prospect of allowing Wall Street free rein to pillage the financial markets with unregulated exotic investment instruments and people like Bernie Madoff to prey on unsuspecting investors without oversight was too much for me.
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As the invaders pillage the luxury home, the viewer gets to enjoy two equally compelling stories in a scant six minutes: the journey of the frogs and the mystery of what happened to the home's owners, which is gruesomely solved in the short's final seconds.
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Last week, the Department of Justice announced a 23-count indictment against Ovsyannikov and seven other men for allegedly operating two lucrative ad fraud schemes that utilized bots, thousands of counterfeit websites, and roughly 211.6 million infected PCs to pillage the global advertising industry.
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A year after the massive pogrom of Rohingya Muslims from Rakhine State, which expelled 800,85033 innocent people — including tens of thousands of children — through terroristic tactics of rape, pillage and murder, no real measure to stop this genocide and punish those responsible has occurred.
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The South Sudanese conflict intensified last year, particularly in Unity State, "where there has been a push by the government, both through the military leadership and the political leadership, to displace, kill, rape, abduct and pillage large portions of the civilian population," Mr. Marshall said.
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It said it believed a Syrian rebel force allied with Turkey, the Syrian National Army, had committed the war crimes of murder and pillage, citing the killings of the Syrian Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf and her driver, who were dragged from their vehicle and executed.
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William Dalrymple's superb account of Britain's East India Company shows why: "The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire" is a case study in what can go wrong — very, very wrong — when corporate leaders lack a sense of decency.
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"If all we're going to do is get them to buy some soybeans and let them continue to rape and pillage us by stealing [intellectual property] from us every year, then that will be the dumbest deal Trump's ever done in his life," said Bass.
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Petersburg Declaration, 1874); banned explosives from balloons, asphyxiating gas and dum-dum bullets (First Hague Convention, 1899); and proscribed pillage, the execution of surrendering soldiers and prisoners of war and forcing civilians to swear an allegiance to a foreign power (Second Hague Convention, 1907).
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When people poured in from Europe, it was like being dropped into a giant bank account, and all they had to do was kill the indigenous people and pillage the land, and either hoard the spoils or bring those spoils back to their countries of origin.
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It is also the first time that the court has secured a conviction for "command responsibility", meaning that a commander can be found guilty even if he did not himself take direct part in such crimes as rape, murder and pillage but allowed them to be committed.
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When they agree to sell to Logan the next morning, they try to demand that Logan name Shiv his successor when he announces the acquisition, the better to quell fears that Pierce's storied journalism history is going to someone who won't simply loot and pillage it.
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After he lost an election to Joseph Kabila in 2006 he was sent to The Hague to stand trial for murder, rape and pillage committed by troops he sent into neighboring Central African Republic in 2002 and 2003 to support its then-president Ange-Felix Patasse.
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The Seven are called upon by Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett), who watches as her husband is gunned down during the film's opening scene by Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), a mustache-twirling (figuratively) robber baron determined to pillage a community of non-violent farmers living on a literal gold mine.
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Ditto for how can we write about Hispaniola and not include most of the southern American hemisphere, and for that, the incomparable Eduardo Galeano's books, most saliently "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," in which Haiti and the Dominican Republic figure frequently.
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"Habré's life sentence is a powerful message that the days when tyrants could brutalize their people, pillage their treasury and escape abroad to a life of luxury are coming to an end," said Reed Brody, a lawyer who has doggedly pursued the case since 1999 on behalf of victims.
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Baldwin felt that in refusing to deal honestly with the fact that their prosperity depends entirely on a history of black exploitation, rape, murder and pillage, whites imbue their identity with an innocence that allows them to see the future as open and free and their minutes and days as pregnant with possibility and power.
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But the Chu Silk Manuscript has been hidden from public view because of its fragility — and the uncertain circumstances by which it ended up in the U.S. • A prominent historian and archaeologist has pieced together its remarkable odyssey, causing a stir in the rarefied world of Chinese antiquities and raising questions about collectors who pillage historic sites.
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All of which is to say that Castro's regime is, just like any other ruthless dictatorship of the past few decades, as kleptocratic as any other—no different from Vladimir Putin's Russia, or Ilham Aliyev's Azerbaijan, or Xi Jinping's China, or any of the other regimes dedicated to the pillage of the many for the profit of the few.
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We're all inside that young guy and he's inside us and that's what allows him to be able and willing to marshal hundreds of years of history, of pillage, blood, suffering, and squash someone or maybe not try to squash, maybe just contain, maybe just loosen a little or sometimes just squeeze the wraps slightly tighter to test, to practice controlling them.
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The dual focus on migrants and their supposed secret benefactor delivered a stark message: Millions of criminal migrants are ready to pounce, to rape and pillage our women, crush Christianity and implant Islam instead, destroy our way of life and even our cuisine — aided and abetted by the European Union, manipulated by the dark lord of liberalism himself, George Soros.
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Through control of tone and narrative detail, as well as some fairly overt nudging, Conrad exposes what he considered to be the naïveté of movements like anarchism and socialism, and the self-serving logic of such historical but "naturalized" phenomena as capitalism (piracy with good P.R.), rationalism (an elaborate defense against our innate irrationality), and imperialism (a grandiose front for old-school rape and pillage).
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