How The US Took Over The World

How The US Hides Its Global Empire - Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
American empire in its many forms
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jacobin.com/20...
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Some maps
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A definition of empire/imperialism
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American military spending is greater than the next 10 countries' combined
www.nationalpr...
Post-WWII population under US control, in and out of the mainland
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Informal imperialism after WWII, decolonization, and the USSR
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Military bases abroad
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www.basenation...
Coups and regime change clips
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250 military interventions since 1991
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350 coup attempts since 1982
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www.washington...
“by 2012, American companies owned 46% of all publicly listed shares of the top 500 corporations in the world”
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Sanctions
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www.washington...
jacobin.com/20...
www.amnesty.or...
Sanctions exist to “decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, [and] desperation”
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