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We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”

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Marco Rubio’s personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in Latin America.

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“We know what this is about, says Chris Hedges, it’s the same thing that the invasion of Iraq was about — the seizure of vast reserves of oil.”

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The evisceration of the rule of law at home and abroad solidifies America as a rogue state.

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The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state.

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The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. In the age of Big Tech’s rising power, can anything stop it?

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The U.N. special rapporteur is one of the most courageous crusaders against the genocide in Gaza. Because of this, she is blacklisted and treated as if she is a terrorist.

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The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.

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The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.

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Anand Giridharadas explains how the elite continuously find ways to screw you, with either good or cynical intentions.

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The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.

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As American hegemony transforms into something that will be determined by “the forces of historical contingency,” how can regular people fight back against the increasingly violent Empire?

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