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U.S. Presidents Kill for Empire
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
17 Dec 2018
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US presidents may seem different from one another, in terms of rhetoric, “but they all have in common being committed to empire,” said Anthony DiMaggio,a political scientist at Lehigh University and author of a recent article titled, “Imperialist in Chief: A Critical History of George H.W. Bush’s War on Iraq.”

U.S. Imperialism

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