What Makes Washington 'Imperial'?
Category: POLITICS
If imperial has any meaning in the post-colonial 21st century, it certainly means that the (super)power in question has an active interest in attempting to control significant swathes of the planet. In fact, there has never been a power, no matter how "great," that has, in such a militarized way, tried to put its stamp of control on so much of Planet Earth.
By Tom Engelhardt, ContributorEditor, TomDispatch.com, 2014-11-20