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How The US Hides Its Global Empire – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
American empire in its many forms
https://books.google.com/books?id=GYtbDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
https://jacobin.com/2019/03/united-states-empire-colonies-philippines-immerwahr
https://books.google.com/books?id=UlkXpSKivwIC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
https://books.google.com/books/about/Super_Imperialism.html?id=rlWFAAAAIAAJ&source=kp_book_description
https://jacobin.com/2020/10/us-military-bases-global-war-machine-imperialism
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.8.1.0104
https://books.google.com/books?id=_GITAgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ww5BgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
Some maps
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3701sm.gct00483/?sp=39
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/15/the-us-hidden-empire-overseas-territories-united-states-guam-puerto-rico-american-samoa#img-3
https://www.basenation.us/maps.html
A definition of empire/imperialism
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5qdgv7
American military spending is greater than the next 10 countries’ combined
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2023/05/04/us-still-spends-more-its-military-over-144-countries-combined/
Post-WWII population under US control, in and out of the mainland
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/18/694700303/the-history-of-american-imperialism-from-bloody-conquest-to-bird-poop
Informal imperialism after WWII, decolonization, and the USSR
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20453107
Military bases abroad
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive
https://www.basenation.us/maps.html
Coups and regime change clips
https://x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1818191495133815242
https://www.foxnews.com/video/5735486561001
250 military interventions since 1991
U.S. launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798
350 coup attempts since 1982
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/7/16/ameri-coup-a-brief-history-of-us-misdeeds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/23/the-cia-says-russia-hacked-the-u-s-election-here-are-6-things-to-learn-from-cold-war-attempts-to-change-regimes/
“by 2012, American companies owned 46% of all publicly listed shares of the top 500 corporations in the world”
https://academic.oup.com/isq/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/isqu.12053
Sanctions
https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1816445527690445301
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/us-sanction-countries-work/
https://jacobin.com/2022/03/us-control-cuba-blockade-must-end-sixty-years
Cuba: The US embargo against Cuba: Its impact on economic and social rights
Sanctions exist to “decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, [and] desperation”
https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499
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