#empireofillusion by #chrishedges and #darkagesamerica by #morrisberman are hardcore truth bombs #nonfiction #uspolitics #usempire #americanempire

@paulwalker44.bsky.social #Guatemala has done good #landreform in the past
/Arbenz expropriated large tracts of land and redistributed them to one hundred thousand landless peasants #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

@feralcommie.bsky.social #Guatemala has done good #landreform in the past
/Arbenz expropriated large tracts of land and redistributed them to one hundred thousand landless peasants #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

The tragedy of American diplomacy, then: #selfdetermination on our terms; subversion of #democracy in order to preserve it ##usimperialism #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

Under #richardnixon Once again, #usa claimed to oppose #socialism because it denied #freedomofchoice, but when a nation such as Chile freely chose it, the #CIA was called in for dirty tricks operations ##usimperialism #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

#richardNixon secretly bombed North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia in 1969, and toppled Chile’s legitimately elected government in 1973. #usimperialism #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

The absurdity of the #vietnamwar a superpower pounding a peasant country to dust for opposing the American will #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

All in all, #usa wound up killing millions of civilians, laying waste to the land with tens of millions of gallons of carcinogenic herbicides, and generating more than six million refugees #Vietnamwar #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

#usa cruelty #Vietnamwar An exposé published in The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, in October 2003 (for which the newspaper was subsequently awarded the Pulitzer Prize) revealed that the famous massacre at #MyLai was hardly unique #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

The self-destructive character of American foreign policy came to full fruition in what is surely our greatest debacle (to date), Vietnam—“the largest imperial war of the century #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman #antiimperialism

#usa supported #fascism By allying ourselves with repressive regimes, we aligned ourselves against the populations of those countries. These regimes canceled or rigged elections and jailed or murdered dissenters. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

#usa has been an obstacle to world #progress for many decades / at the time of Kennedy’s death the #CIA was planning to sabotage the #Cuban economy and, once again, to assassinate #fidelCastro / #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

#coldwar #Dulles #secretaryofstate under #Eisenhower He believed the #UnitedStates actually had an interest in being threatened— #usalies #americalies #uspropaganda #americanpropaganda #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

the #conspiracytheory of a global #redscare menace threatening to engulf the world was grossly exaggerated by the #UnitedStates for #imperial purposes #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

#Coldwar On both sides, the presence of a powerful enemy served to generate a huge apparatus of employment and government expenditures #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

THE ONLY THING THAT kept #America from establishing a full-fledged #empire in the postwar period was the presence of the #SovietUnion as a restraining force #imperialism / #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

Our relationship with the #MiddleEast is the culmination of a #foreignpolicy that has been building for some time now and will prove to be, I believe, the linchpin of the #American downfall. #freepalestine #freegaza / #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

If #American interests is broadened in this way, the similarity of our situation to that of the late #RomanEmpire becomes strikingly obvious. #americanempire #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

#America had no problem backing oppressive #dictator (s) who would put a stop to attempts at #liberation, what were mostly #nationalist movements. Nor did the #UnitedStates have any problem working with #colonial powers. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman #imperialism #colonialism

The image of #revolution potentially out of control is frightening to #American (s) ; the entire #ColdWar policy of #containment embodied the notion that virtually any social change, nationalistic or otherwise, was a dangerous thing, a threat to freedom everywhere. #foreignpolicy #DarkAgesAmerica

#Revolution has been seen by #Americans as a kind of solemn affair, led by respectable #middleclass citizens in powdered wigs and harnessed to moderate #political goals. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

Americans don’t respect #cultural patterns different from their own, and this has facilitated an #imperial foreign policy. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman #imperialism #racialhierarchy

#american newspaper cartoons depicted blacks as brutes or children, Asians as inscrutable or somnolent. Motion pictures portrayed Latinos as greasers, Latinas as sultry, and Arabs as devious, fanatical, or evil. #racialhierarchy #morrisberman #DarkAgesAmerica

But #Americans (s) says Thompson, have often discussed their #foreignpolicy in terms of #nationalsecurity, #prestige, #racism, and #religion as well, and these have sometimes been autonomous from economic issues. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman #imperialism

Is #American #foreignpolicy the product of interlocking business and political elites? Is it just an economic #ManifestDestiny writ large? #WilliamApplemanWilliams #iimperialism #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

As for the #FDR #NewDeal, rather than being a #revolution it was a way of preventing one: even in the depths of #theGreatDepression, overseas expansion of the American #corporate system was regarded as a basic means of economic recovery. #imperialism #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

we insist that these other people go about solving their problems in the same way we do. The tragedy is not only the inherent contradiction involved in all this, but also the fact that we don’t recognize it as such; we don’t grasp that it is an oxymoron. #usimperialism #imperialism #DarkAgesAmerica

Essentially, it’s that we #Americans uphold an ideal of #selfdetermination for the peoples of the world, which we then subvert by defining our foreign policy as a process of helping those peoples to become…like us! #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman

an alliance of #Republican businessmen that put #McKinley in the #WhiteHouse, an elite clique that advocated an aggressive foreign policy, an active search for markets, and a large #navy. #morrisberman #DarkAgesAmerica ##imperialism

The decision for #imperial expansion was part of the 1896 platform of the #Republican party, which captured the presidency and held it for the next sixteen years. #ushistory #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman