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American empire in its many forms https://books.google.com/books?id=GYtbDwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover https://jacobin.com/2019/03/united-states-empire-colonies-philippines-immerwahr https://books.google.com/books?id=UlkXpSKivwIC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover https://books.google.com/books/about/Super_Imperialism.html?id=rlWFAAAAIAAJ&source=kp_book_description https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/11/the-destiny-of-civilization-an-interview-with-michael-hudson-on-economic-development-rentierism-debt-china.html https://jacobin.com/2020/10/us-military-bases-global-war-machine-imperialism https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.8.1.0104 https://books.google.com/books?id=_GITAgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover https://books.google.com/books?id=6Ww5BgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover

Some maps https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3701sm.gct00483/?sp=39 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/15/the-us-hidden-empire-overseas-territories-united-states-guam-puerto-rico-american-samoa#img-3 https://www.basenation.us/maps.html

A definition of empire/imperialism https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv5qdgv7

American military spending is greater than the next 10 countries' combined https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2023/05/04/us-still-spends-more-its-military-over-144-countries-combined/

Post-WWII population under US control, in and out of the mainland https://www.npr.org/2019/02/18/694700303/the-history-of-american-imperialism-from-bloody-conquest-to-bird-poop

Informal imperialism after WWII, decolonization, and the USSR https://www.jstor.org/stable/20453107

Military bases abroad https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/10/infographic-us-military-presence-around-the-world-interactive https://www.basenation.us/maps.html

Coups and regime change clips https://x.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1818191495133815242 https://www.foxnews.com/video/5735486561001

250 military interventions since 1991 https://mronline.org/2022/09/16/u-s-launched-251-military-interventions-since-1991-and-469-since-1798/

350 coup attempts since 1982 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/7/16/ameri-coup-a-brief-history-of-us-misdeeds https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/23/the-cia-says-russia-hacked-the-u-s-election-here-are-6-things-to-learn-from-cold-war-attempts-to-change-regimes/

“by 2012, American companies owned 46% of all publicly listed shares of the top 500 corporations in the world” https://academic.oup.com/isq/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/isqu.12053

Sanctions https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1816445527690445301 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/us-sanction-countries-work/ https://jacobin.com/2022/03/us-control-cuba-blockade-must-end-sixty-years https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr25/007/2009/en/

Sanctions exist to “decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, [and] desperation” https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06/d499

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