Broadcasting Dissent, Investigative Journalist Abby Martin
Journal: University of the Arts London Research Online (University of the Arts London)
Year: 2018

‘We are here for your fucking freedom!’ a US soldier bellows, pointing a gun at a crowd of sceptical locals. The nineteenth-century concept of manifest destiny propelled American settlers across the expanse of their own fledging country, and its legacy lives on in modern-day Fallujah. It’s easy to see how the less-sullied manifest destiny of earlier times, which powered the penetration of the west, farming and building along the way, remains an important aspect of the American psyche, how it ser