#imperalism — Public Fediverse posts

I just found out that the US did a “joint military exercise” with equador the other day and ended up bombing a dairy farm.

Apparently because of false intel.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/03/27/ecuador-farm-village-bombing-explained/89333544007/

#USPol #equador #imperalism #warondrugs

"[T]he United States is now acting like a predatory hegemon, exploiting positions of leverage built up over decades to exploit allies and adversaries alike. This zero-sum approach to nearly all relations with others includes a deep hostility toward most international institutions and norms, deliberately erratic behavior, and a tendency to treat other foreign leaders with ill-disguised contempt while expecting demeaning acts of submission and fealty from most of them. As the fallout from the war in Iran spreads throughout the region and around the world, it underscores that the administration either didn’t understand how its actions would affect other states or simply didn’t care.

Which brings me to the third problem: U.S. foreign policy is now in the hands of a remarkably incompetent set of officials, from the president on down. International influence depends on many things, but one of the key ingredients is other states’ belief that the people they have to deal with are smart, well-informed, and generally know what they are doing. At this point, does anyone in the higher echelons of the Trump administration merit that description? Not that I can see. Conducting foreign policy is a difficult business, and no government gets everything right, but this administration commits own goals on a weekly basis while insisting that it is infallible.
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The bottom line is that the rest of the world is going to be dealing with a powerful, probably predatory, and highly erratic United States for at least three more years and probably longer. If that is the case, then what should other countries do, bearing in mind that the United States is not the only dangerous predator out there (and for some states, more immediate dangers lie closer to home)."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/26/united-states-trump-rogue-state-iran/

#USA #Trump #Militarism #Geopolitics #Hegemony #Imperalism #RogueState

Wer hätte das gedacht: Ich habe Respekt vor dem klaren Auftreten des grönländischen Ministerpräsidenten und der dänischen Ministerpräsidentin auf deren Pressekonfernz. »Wenn wir zwischen USA und Dänemark wählen müssen, wählen wir Dänemark und die EU.« »Grönland steht nicht zum Verkauf.« »Wenn es um Sicherheit geht: Alle NATO-Partner unterstützen Dänemark, die arktische Grenze zu Russland und China zu sichern.« (Subtext: Auch gegen MAGA-USA) »Als souveräne NATO-Partner arbeiten wir auch mit den USA zusammen.«

So beschissen solche Kriegsrhetorik ist, es ist im Moment das Einzige, was bleibt, wenn die USA einmal mehr imperialistische Arschlöcher sind.

#Greenland #Grönland #Imperalism #MAGA #USA #NATO

"But at a glance there are lots of policy benefits flowing to the oil industry. ...

the biggest plum for the oil industry may be President Trump's decision to arrest the President and First Lady of Venezuela. Venezuela has some of the richest oil reserves in the world."

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites
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"The oil industry didn't spend the $1 billion that Donald Trump asked for, at least not in a public way. On the record, the Guardian tallied $445 million was spent by the oil industry in the 2024 election. ...

What did the oil industry get in return for this campaign cash? Political scientists will spend years untangling this mystery."

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites
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"According to Politico, attendees 'included executives from oil companies Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Continental Resources as well as from natural gas producer EQT and gas exporter Cheniere Energy, and the trade association American Petroleum Institute.'"

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #Exxon #Chevron #ConocoPhillips #ContinentalResources #EQT #CheniereEnergy #AmericanPetroleumInstitute
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"During the 2024 election, then-candidate Donald Trump had a secretive meeting at his Mar-a-Lago home with oil executives and asked them to spend $1 billion in his 2024 bid to return to the White House."

~ Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites
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https://lawandcrime.com/analysis/big-oil-opened-its-pockets-in-2024-for-republicans-was-venezuela-payback/

"New U.S. jobs data released moments ago point to a weakening economy, raising fresh concerns about a potential downturn."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #economy #healthcare #affordability
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-extremely-weak-economic-numbers

"For the moment, those plans seem deep on the back burner, while Trump’s focus is Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela and oil, oil, oil.

Americans aren’t blind, and they can see that Trump’s military strike was largely about helping an industry that many Americans detest: the oil industry."

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #economy #healthcare #affordability
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"As Americans worry about healthcare and affordability, the ‘no more wars’ president is helping oil companies instead. ...

Let’s not forget, with Zohran Mamdani and other Democrats winning big on affordability issues in November, Trump is supposed to travel around the country to give speeches in which he, if he can keep to the script, boasts that he cares big-time about affordability."

~ Steven Greenberg

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/09/trump-venezuela-domestic-crises

"In addition to his business dealings, Singer also has deep ties to politics; he was one of Trump’s 10 biggest donors, contributing $5 million to his 2024 electoral campaign."

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #EconomicElites #Citgo #PaulSinger
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"So, who has the most to gain from the Trump Administration’s takeover? Meet Paul Singer.

Singer is the founder, president & co-CEO of Elliott Investment Management. In November 2025, his company’s affiliate Amber Energy won court approval to acquire the parent company of Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-run oil company - Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)."

~ The Feed

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #EconomicElites #Citgo #PaulSinger
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https://thefeed1.substack.com/p/meet-the-oligarch-behind-trumps-venzuela

"Oil companies are key partners in Trump’s imperial plans for Latin America. Stocks in ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and ConocoPhillips surged the day after Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela."

~ Derek Seidman

#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #ExxonMobil #Halliburton #ConocoPhillips #Citgo #PaulSinger
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https://truthout.org/articles/oil-companies-are-key-partners-in-trumps-imperial-plans-for-latin-america

Israel to continue occupation of West Bank, their defence minister said. And also occupying Lebanon. And also occupying Syria. And maybe also Gaza (except because intense fighting is 100% guaranteed in Gaza, in opposite to every other mentioned place). And all of this, with the blessing of the US government, regardless of whom is sitting in the White House, be it from party A or from party B.

#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #WestBank #Lebanon #Syria #Occupation #Israel #Expansionism #Imperalism #USA

Now that we are reaching #limitstogrowth worldwide some of us are wondering where the imperative for growth which is so destructive and devastating for #nature comes from.

Stock markets, corporations and their relentless desire for constant #growth have their roots in European #colonialism and #imperalism. Joint-stock companies like the East India Company, the Virginia Company, the British South Africa Company or the South Sea Company helped to build the British empire as Philip J. Stern describes in his book [1].

This joint-stock venture colonialism laid the foundation for modern corporations and stock markets. The British East India Company, French Mississippi Company, Dutch East India Company, and German Brandenburg African Company were the first European stock corporations.

Investment in joint-stock companies allowed investors including the royal family itself to gain large profits at high risks, similar to investors in whaling ventures which shared risks and profits. Modern venture capital was born, and venture colonialism turned over time into venture capitalism [2]. In this sense colonialism enabled imperialism and led to #capitalism.

[1] Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism, Philip J. Stern, Harvard University Press, 2023
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674988125

[2] VC: An American History, Tom Nicholas, Harvard University Press, 2019
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674988002

“#Palestine, with its land, history and holy sites, is not for sale, and is not an investment project. The rights of the Palestinian people are not negotiable and are not a bargaining chip.”

#USPol #Trump #Imperalism #Gaza #WestBank #Jerusalem

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/feb/06/middle-east-crisis-live-white-house-walks-back-trumps-gaza-takeover-comments-in-face-of-widespread-international-anger?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67a4a5718f08a9969a056117#block-67a4a5718f08a9969a056117

#PoliticalEconomy #STS #Imperalism: "Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. The aim is to view the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power. It traces technological patterns of colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure since 1500 to show how these forces still subjugate and how they might be unwound. By tracking these imperial pathways, Calculating Empires offers a means of seeing our technological present in a deeper historical context. And by investigating how past empires have calculated, we can see how they created the conditions of empire today.

Calculating Empires centers on four themes: communication, computation, classification and control. Across the centuries, the work illustrates the shifts in communication devices, infrastructures, and computational architectures, and how they are entwined with the histories of social control and classification. The vertical axis represents time, beginning with the 16th century at the base. The horizontal axis features a collection of systems: from algorithms to architecture, bodies to borders. Navigation is flexible: you can follow a theme, a time period, or set of ideas."

https://calculatingempires.net/

In her paper “White Sexual Imperalism: A Theory of Asian Feminist Jurisprudence,” Sunny Woan, graduate of #SantaClaraLawSchool, delineates how #imperalism, #media & #sexism have resulted in #AsianWomen functioning as “objects for western consumption and the satisfaction of western desires.” Subsequent to their #objectification is the overarching conception of Asian women as submissive, subservient & inherently hypersexual

https://harvardpolitics.com/asian-fetishization-adoptee/

#AsianMastodon #RacismStudies #RacialStereotypes

@kathimmel #thanku for reposts reboots and likes for #freefreepalastine #keepupthegreatwork #WeAreAllPalestinians #imperalism is #genocide

Interview with Jürgen #Kuczynski (1987)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rh1Uaso4yksu

#DDR #GDR #Imperalism #OtherEurope

The United States, who continues to needlessly send billions of dollars to the imperalist and genocidal State of Israel, chooses to act surprised and "troubled" when the Government body of Israel is emboldened enough to say how they truly feel. The Israeli Government is just an extension of US imperalism in the Middle East.

The ethnonationalist state of Israel needs dismantled, as does the imperalist United States.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/21/us-says-it-is-extremely-troubled-by-new-israeli-settlements-law

#USPol
#Zionism
#Imperalism
#MiddleEast
#Palestine
#Ethnonationalism

If the US congress doesn't act before it's too late, things are going to get a lot worse.

"No holds Barred: Trump and his troops push for imperial presidency"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/19/william-barr-donald-trump-robert-mueller-congress

#45 #uspoli #imperalism #democracy