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U.S. in “Imperial Retreat”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
21 Jun 2018
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Donald Trump’s willingness to contemplate U.S. troop withdrawal from South Korea is more evidence of “imperial retreat,” said Dr. Anthony Monteiro, the Philadelphia-based DuBoisian scholar. “The attempt to be the world’s single superpower, the military hegemon, was bankrupting the U.S.,” said Monteiro.

U.S. Imperialism in Decline

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