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Topic: American Imperialism

President Donald Trump during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump lurches further into delusion

Brian Karem
Greenlanders demonstrate against Donald Trump's threats against their sovereignty on Jan. 17, 2026 in the capital of Nuuk. (Alessandro RAMPAZZO / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s Greenland fixation

Heather Digby Parton
resident Donald Trump takes questions from the press in the Oval Office on Nov. 18, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump rants, our allies fear the worst

Brian Karem
(Twitter)

Is the CIA behind a Bolivian botnet?

Keith A. Spencer, Nicole Karlis
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In this March 27, 2017, file photo, men sit on the Nadir Khan hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan. As America’s 16-year war in Afghanistan drags on, Russia is resurrecting its own interest in the “graveyard of empires.” The jockeying includes engaging the Taliban and leading a new diplomatic effort to tackle Afghanistan’s future, all while Washington leaves the world guessing on its strategy for ending the conflict. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Doomed to fail

Alon Ben-Meir - The Globalist
An F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet sits onboard the U.S. Navy's USS George Washington aircraft carrier. (Reuters)

A wide world of winless wars

Nick Turse - TomDispatch.com
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Flickr/Vlad Butsky)

U.S. imperialism wins again

Ben Norton
A huge expanse of ruins left by the explosion of the atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 in Hiroshima. (AP)

Howard Zinn - TomDispatch.com
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(AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

The Pope vs. Imperial America

Matthew Pulver
(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lessons not learned in Vietnam

Robert Freeman
(AP/Susan Walsh)

America's dark imperial legacy

Robert W. McChesney
(AP/Alex Brandon)

Ted Cruz's imperialist fantasy

Colin P. Elliott
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(Scene still from "Star Wars")

David Sirota
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