On The Socialist Program, Richard Wolff looks at Trump’s actions toward Venezuela and Greenland as expressions of US imperialism driven by resource extraction and financial interests. The segment connects these moves to older colonial practices and frames them as signs of a declining American empire trying to assert power amid shifting global dynamics.
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Are not we the American tax payer paying for our own colonization: via government contracts to billionaires, the war economy... There seems no money for housing, healthcare, education, services and products that serve the citizens and not the billionaires and the corporations? Are not we "citizens" the colonized of a purchased representative government run by large money, private interests?