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Global Empire as Domestic Policy (opens the original)
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by David S. D'Amato | Sep 4, 2026 | 0 comments While many mainstream commentators blanch at the characterization of the United States as an empire, the hard data show that it is today impossible to seriously dispute. The U.S. military operates between 750 and 800 bases around the world, located in around 80 foreign countries and territories. Because there is no fixed or standard definition of “base” for these purposes, there is no accepted number, and some estimates place the figure at closer to
Global Empire as Domestic Policy (opens the original)
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While many mainstream commentators blanch at the characterization of the United States as an empire, the hard data show that it is today possible to seriously dispute. The U.S. military operates between 750 and 800 bases around the world, located in around 80 foreign countries and territories. Because there is no fixed or standard definition of “base” for these purposes, there is no accepted number, and some estimates place the figure at closer to 900. The U.S. is also known to operate dozens of
“Capital Is Not a Thing”: The Legal System’s Pre-Distribution of Economic Power (opens the original)
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The popular political discourse frequently presents the idea that redistribution happens or can happen after markets yield conditions of inequality. But this narrative is fundamentally mistaken and misleading. Redistribution begins before firms, markets, or competition exist at all, because the legal concepts we use themselves confer economic value and they do so unevenly. The legal coding of capital acts as a distribution mechanism, routing economic value upward to the extremely rich. Capitalis
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