A 'Psychic Thrill' for US Empire

The United States began as a Republic seeking to avoid foreign entangling alliances, but the nation has been tempted over the past two centuries into becoming an Empire.

Bruce Fein, who worked in Ronald Reagan’s adminstration, says the momentum toward Empire has accelerated over the past few decades as the United States established more and more overseas military bases and Americans were sold on the quixotic notion that they could shield ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - May 19, 2009 - 3:29 PM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - May. 19, 2009

To understand the present, we must know the history of how we got here. Bruce Fein looks at the history and nature of the United States Empire. The relation of the military industries to the enforcing of empire is discussed. The psychological thrill of the power of empire is threaded into the story. The horrible love of war.

McKinley set out to free Cuba from Spain, listened to the American public psyche, and ended up making colonies of Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, as well as Hawaii, and set up a protectorate over Cuba. The hatchings of global empire.

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