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Chomsky and Robinson also acknowledge that other great powers acted in much the same way that the United States has, and these states also invented elaborate moral justifications—the “white man’s burden,” la mission civilisatrice, the need to protect socialism—to whitewash their atrocious conduct. Given that this behavior preceded the emergence of ... See more
Nathan J. Robinson • Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right
the Vietnam War, shock waves rattled the marble palaces of Washington.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Collectively, these technologies weaned the United States off the familiar model of formal empire. They replaced colonization with globalization.
Daniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life,”45 and sometimes the solution: we need a “Marshall Plan for the Earth.”