‘Fossil-fuel imperialism’: Trump’s hankering for Iranian oil runs deep

Experts say the US believes it is entitled to resources it desires – a perspective president has supported for decades…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/trump-iran-oil-fossil-fuel-imperialism

 

Trump LOSES IT as EMERGENCY UN Meeting CONDEMNS HIM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w43KkPqYrgg

 

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is 'unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism'…

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/08/uk-plastic-waste-exports-to-developing-countries-rose-84-in-a-year-data-shows

Kevin McCarthy shows his ignorance about American history in new video

"In his own odd way, McCarthy is recapitulating one of the central tenets of nineteenth century Manifest Destiny: that everyone wanted to be part of the US, so any US military action was not a hostile invasion but rather a liberation," Jacoby wrote. "President Polk and others in the 1840s, for example, spoke of taking 'bloodless possession' of California and New Mexico rather than admit that the U.S. seized these territories by force." 

Correcting McCarthy's falsehoods is not just a matter of getting the historical record right. It's crucial to counter the way that many on the right — and some liberals — downplay or whitewash America's history of expansionism and imperialism in order to foster a dangerous brand of American chauvinism…

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kevin-mcarthy-video-american-war-history-rcna126816

Pope Francis draws criticism for extolling Russian imperialist tsars | Reuters

"It is precisely with such imperialist propaganda, the 'spiritual ties' and the 'need' to save 'great Mother Russia' that the Kremlin justifies the killing of thousands of Ukrainians and the destruction of Ukrainian cities and villages," Oleg Nikolenko, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, said on Facebook. 

"It is deeply regrettable that such notions of being a great power, which contribute, in essence, to Russia's chronic aggressiveness, are voiced by the pope, either knowingly or unknowingly," Nikolenko said...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-francis-draws-criticism-extolling-russian-imperialist-tsars-2023-08-28/

What’s wrong with Trump’s Republican Party? It springs from the twin roots of political evil – Raw Story

On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special guest on his weekly podcast, Carl Bernstein. It was Bernstein, with fellow Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, whose reporting broke open the story of how the Committee to Re-elect the President burglarized Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C. That reporting and the impeachment hearings that followed eventually forced President Richard Nixon to resign in disgrace in 1974. Bharara wanted to hear about what differences Bernstein sees between the Nixon impeachment proceedings and Donald Trump’s today.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/whats-wrong-with-trump-republican-party-it-springs-from-the-twin-roots-of-political-evil/

"I'm the only one that matters": Trump's chilling imperial power-grab -- Salon

President Donald Trump is overseas right now, doing personal appearances at his properties and making a fool of himself. So far, he's asked Japanese car makers to start making cars in the United States, apparently ignorant of the fact that three out of four Japanese-branded cars and trucks are already manufactured in America. And he hawked U.S. military equipment as if he were selling Trump steaks on YouTube. That wasn't the worst of it. ....
https://www.salon.com/2017/11/06/im-the-only-one-that-matters-trumps-chilling-imperial-power-grab/

Syria: Another Pipeline War - EcoWatch

The fossil fuel industry's business model is to externalize its costs by clawing in obscene subsidies and tax deductions—causing grave environmental costs, including toxic pollution and global warming. Among the other unassessed prices of the world's addiction to oil are social chaos, war, terror, the refugee crisis overseas, and the loss of democracy and civil rights abroad and at home.

As we focus on the rise of ISIS and search for the source of the savagery that took so many innocent lives in Paris and San Bernardino, we might want to look beyond the convenient explanations of religion and ideology and focus on the more complex rationales of history and oil, which mostly point the finger of blame for terrorism back at the champions of militarism, imperialism and petroleum here on our own shores....

Donald Trump, Imperialist: He Longs to Build Up Our Military and Then Use It | Alternet

Trump's "America First" talk doesn't mean retrenchment. He just wants us to dominate everyone and rule the world....
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/donald-trump-imperialist