What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire
This article by the late Howard Zinn is a reprint from the archives of TomDispatch. Read Tom Engelhardt’s introduction here.
With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with
military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there
is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire.
Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned into a boastful, unashamed
embrace of the idea.
