US Politics in Trump era
Publisher: The Intercept
Author: Miriam Pensack
6 Jul 2018
An American Century of Brutal Overseas Conquest Began at Guantánamo Bay
The invasion at Guantánamo marked the formal beginning of an American penchant for intervening militarily in the affairs of other nations. Historians of U.S. empire have long acknowledged 1898 as a watershed in the trajectory of America’s global posturing.