#us-imperialism tag

1 week ago

Is Cuba Next?

The US is pursuing renewed hemispheric imperialism targeting Cuba for regime change, with Trump and allies threatening economic strangulation and symbolic domination.

Miscellaneous

fromwww.aljazeera.com

1 week ago

Greenland is not just a territorial concern. It is a reckoning

Denmark faces an ironic loss of sovereignty as renewed American interest in Greenland exposes consequences of Denmark's past alignment with imperial, power-driven foreign policy.

#venezuela

US politics

Trump, Venezuela + Imperialism Discussion (Berkeley)

US politics

Trump's Predatory Danger to Latin America

US politics

Trump, Venezuela + Imperialism Discussion (Berkeley)

US politics

Trump's Predatory Danger to Latin America

The United States Has Now Gone Full Villain | The Walrus

FDR's Good Neighbor Policy committed the United States to respecting Latin American sovereignty and agreements, reversing earlier imperial interventions and occupations.

History

3 weeks ago

Before There Was Nicolas Maduro, There Was Cipriano Castro

Foreign commercial and political machinations, especially U.S. actors and financiers, produced debt, violence, and international intervention in early-20th-century Venezuela.

fromWIRED

3 weeks ago

The 3 Keys to Understanding Trump's Retro Coup in Venezuela

Donald Trump is hardly the first US president to look south and conquer. Over the last century, no fewer than a dozen of Trump's predecessors embraced the belief that democracy and profit in Latin America were only one successful coup d'état away. But the particular strain of imperial ambition that Trump appears to have set loose with this weekend's raid in Venezuela appears simultaneously to be deeply atavistic and uniquely Trumpian. And it's one that doesn't look set to die down anytime soon.

US politics

World politics

from48 hills

3 weeks ago

Venezuela protests this weekend are part of a long history in San Francisco - 48 hills

Bay Area protesters continue a longstanding tradition of resisting U.S. interventions and imperialism in Latin America.

World politics

4 months ago

Free Talk: US-Mexico Imperialism + New Pamphlet (Berkeley)

U.S. domination of Mexico is imperialist, parasitic, and historically entrenched, extracting resources and exploiting Mexican labor and sovereignty for U.S. interests.

Books