Category: Empire

  • The Occupation Begins in LA and DC

    The Occupation Begins in LA and DC

    The first stages of the occupation are unfolding in LA and DC. The return of the Redcoats for our “own sake.” The arming of the National Guard in DC has begun. Kary Love | Aug 27, 2025 | Listen The US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan as illegally as Putin invaded Ukraine, a bad place to…

  • The Trump Administration Wants to Turn US Cities Into Occupied Territory

    The Trump Administration Wants to Turn US Cities Into Occupied Territory

    Opinion: The logic is imperial, and familiar. Invent an enemy. Inflate the threat. Justify the war. Except this time, the war zone is your own backyard. Jesse Mackinnon | Aug 07, 2025 | Common Dreams By any rational measure, the Trump administration’s internal Department of Homeland Security memo—obtained by The New Republic— reads less like a briefing…

  • Micro-Militarism and Decline of Democracy

    Micro-Militarism and Decline of Democracy

    June 13, 2018 | Alfred W. McCoy | The Progressive After seventy years at the apex of global power, the most powerful empire in world history is beginning a protracted, painful decline. This decline might be a unique event for the United States, but from a world historical perspective these imperial transitions have happened often.…