Category: Empire
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The Oldest Colony, the Newest War: Puerto Rico as a Launchpad for War on Venezuela
October 23, 2025 | Michelle Ellner | CounterPunch When President Trump announced that the CIA had been authorized to conduct operations inside Venezuela, just as U.S drones struck another small boat off Venezuela’s coast, few people in the United States realized that much of this militarization begins on the soil of a land denied its…
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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…
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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…
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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.…