How many Americans know that Donald Trump is the president of Guam? … What we never learn is what this country really is: the Greater United States: Guam, Swan Islands, Thule Air Base, US Virgin Islands, Guantanamo Bay, Philippines, Bikini Atoll, Saipan, Alaska, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Hawaii … Abby Martin & The Empire Files: United States to Imperial America: Our Hidden Empire, 2019
Professor Daniel Immerwahr: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. ibid.
The US operates out of about seven military bases in Colombia and they’ve been open about the fact that they want those bases for power projection throughout Latin America. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Human Rights Hypocrisy: Colombia vs Venezuela, Dan Kovalik
Death squads have been used throughout Latin America by the US. ibid.
Trump has jolted the entire establishment by announcing the withdrawal of US troops from Syria. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Trump’s Syria Deception, 2019
Trump is simply withdrawing the troops he himself added. ibid.
Trump has drastically ramped up US bombing in every region of the world. ibid.
‘We don’t want Syria … We’re not talking about vast wealth, we’re talking about sand and death.’ ibid. Trump
‘Why don’t we just take over the oil?’ ibid.
The war machine has been on a continuous march forward to swallow up new regions and markets no matter the president. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Trump is Expanding the US Empire, 2019
The increase in military spending only equates to more than Russia’s entire annual military budget. ibid.
‘Our equipment is so much better than anyone else’s equipment.’ ibid. Trump
‘Space has become a war-fighting domain.’ ibid.
Make no mistake – sanctions are war … they are real attacks that kill real people. ibid.
We’re in the midst of a global pandemic … The US Empire sees it as a perfect opportunity to advance. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: US Empire Exploits Covid-19 For More War, Youtube 16.29, 2020
Standing US policy has left dozens of countries on the brink of collapse. ibid.
After being in office for barely a month Biden has authorised his first military strike. In one foul swoop he managed to attack three counties at once: Syria, Iraq and Iran. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Biden’s First Act of War Hits 3 Countries, Youtube 2021
The imperial hubris of the United States is grotesque and shameful bombing any country it wants with total impunity, killing anyone anywhere with zero consequences, lashing out abroad while leaving its people to rot in the streets at home, and then having the sheer audacity to claim moral authority to do it all over again. ibid.
Major demonstrations continue to rock Haiti as protesters demand that US-backed president Jovenel Moise step down from office … Inside of holding new elections or stepping down he is just staying put. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Haiti’s Century of US Coups, Invasions & Puppets, Youtube 8.47, Abby Martin online 2021
How the American empire has determined the destiny of Haiti for generations. ibid.
In 1915 US marines invaded Haiti … The Haitian masses fought back against this new colonial rule. ibid.
The US supported the dictatorship with aid and protection. ibid.
The Obama Administration used Kony 2012’s viral video as marketing to ramp up its military actions in Uganda. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Uganda Dictatorship: Pearl of Africa, Youtube 16.00, 2021
One of the world’s longest serving dictators, American puppet General Museveni. ibid.
The US is building its forces across the African continent. ibid.
The United States is posing as the arbiter of human rights and democracy. It’s granting itself basically the right to dictate the future of Latin America. Abby Martin & The Empire Files: Abby Martin’s Speech on US Sanctions & Economic Gangsterism, Youtube 2022
Recent Costs of War studies revealed that US counter-terrorism operations have been active in 83 countries in the last three years … to extract resources and protect capitalism. ibid.
The reality is that sanctions are war. ibid.
Trump dramatically increased sanctions on every targeted country. And Biden has pretty much maintained all of them. ibid.
Fanatical civilians, highly trained crack civilians, trained to speak Libyan fluently and utterly dedicated to opposing all forms of American military action on their houses … people single-mindedly dedicated to not being killed. Spitting Image s3e9, US army press conference, ITV 1986
Journalist: What are we fighting for?
Boy: Freedom. Why We Fight, 2005
Our government did not want the forensic question asked, What were their motives? ibid. commentator, re 9/11
We live here in the United States of Amnesia. ibid. Gore Vidal
We are the new Rome – that’s their strategy on 9/11. ibid. commentator
We are on the side of decency and democracy and liberty. ibid. Eisenhower
Today the United States spends more on defense than all the other discretionary parts of the federal budget combined. ibid. caption
It’s known as the revolving door and people cash in all the time. ibid. commentator
It’s basically economic colonialism. ibid.
A belief that the public doesn’t need to know. ibid. Dan Rather
I really do believe we will be greeted as liberators. ibid. Cheney
This film speaks of neo-colonialism and violence in Argentina and in most of the countries of Latin American not yet liberated … The geography of hunger: dispossessed, shut out, damned. We have been taught a false history. False hopes of wealth. A false international viewpoint. False economic beliefs. A false freedom. The Hour of the Furnaces ***** 1968
A plea for unity against the great enemy: USA. ibid.
Latin America is a country at war. For the ruling classes a war of repression; for the oppressed people a war of liberation. ibid.
British merchants took over. The national bank that issued the country’s currency, and in the name of free trade, their manufacturers invaded internal markets. From that moment on, England replaced Spain in dominating almost all of the continent. What it had not obtained before with armies, it now obtained with loans … This was the birth of neo-colonialism. ibid.
The unity of America was destroyed. ibid.
In less than a century the United States carried out 41 armed invasions of Latin America. ibid.
Argentina: an immense country practically deserted. 23 million inhabitants of which 70% are crowded in the cities, 45% in only one of its provinces Buenos Aires where 60% of industry is concentrated. ibid.
The violence visited on the Latin American peoples is a constant, planned, systematic violence. ibid.
75% of Argentine workers cannot satisfy their basic needs with what they earn. ibid.
80% of the population has no land at all. ibid.
The system: an internal enemy that throws open the country’s doors to neo-colonial penetration. ibid.
A common goal united this infiltration: the corruption of the national consciousness to facilitate the dominion of the country. ibid.
The first national form of resistance was crushed in the Massacre of the Monorena. Consequently, an anti-national foreign civilisation was imposed. ibid.
Names that in the mouth of the master deny the victim of exploitation his condition as a man. 80% of the Argentine native population has tuberculosis and syphilis. ibid.
So-called imperialist aid is an aid that always costs. ibid.
An intelligentsia has grown up that has no ties with the people or the reality of the country. ibid.
Censorship and ideological repression are total. ibid.
Violence, crime, destruction become peace, order, normality … Monstrosity disguised as beauty. ibid.
To choose through rebellion his own life and death. For the man who dies in the struggle for liberation, death is no longer the end. ibid.
Argentina 1966-1967: Act for Liberation: Notes, testimonials and debate about the recent liberation struggle of the Argentine people. The Hour of the Furnaces II
General Order 27th July 1819: Comrades in the Andes Army: we must fight however we can … or else let’s die fighting as brave men. ibid.
Revolutionary violence will put an end to imperialist crimes. Liberation or death! ibid.
The nature of imperialism is what turns man into a beast. ibid.
Chronicles of Peronism 1945-1955: national and popular movements were the first appearances in history of most Latin American peoples: they were the first actions of breaking the neo-colonial serfdom. ibid.
17th October 1945: the Argentinian masses burst for the first time on to the national political scene. ibid.
Peronism came to put an end to the effects of an infamous decade – the era that started in 1930 with the oligarchic military dictatorship that overthrew Irigoyen; the years of national corruption, soup kitchens, ignominious frauds and assassins paid by the committee. A time when Argentinian politics were managed between the British embassy and the army. A shameless handover of the national wealth. ibid.
Peronism displaced oligarchy and imperialism from positions of power. ibid.
He was the embodiment of a popular force. ibid.