DONALD Trump is set to return to the White House in five days, but it looks like he has already taken the United States back to 19th century imperialism. The president-elect has declared that he wants Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal and even Mexico under US control, suggesting that they could be acquired through force or extreme economic coercion.
M. Veera Pandiyan
https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/columnists/along-the-watchtower/2025/01/15/a-return-to-naked-imperialism
To be read by serious analysts and activists. —Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University. Listed as one of the Best Books about Colonialism and Imperialism by Book ...
During the Cold War years, mainstream commentators were quick to dismiss the idea that the United States was an imperialist power. Even when U.S. interventions led to the overthrow of popular governments, as in Iran, Guatemala, or the Congo, or wholesale war, as in Vietnam, this fiction remained intact. During the 1990s and especially since September 11, 2001, however, it has crumbled. Today, the need for American empire is openly proclaimed and defended by mainstream analysts and commentators.
John Bellamy Foster’s Naked Imperialism examines this important transformation in U.S. global policy and ideology, showing the political and economic roots of the new militarism and its consequences both in the global and local context. Foster shows how U.S.-led global capitalism is preparing the way for a new age of barbarism and demonstrates the necessity for resistance and solidarity on a global scale.
Naked Imperialism is a synthesis of 50 years of intelligent writing by Monthly Review authors about the realities of imperialism. To be read by serious analysts and activists.
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