In “Bases for an Empire” (Opinion, Jan. 18), Chalmers Johnson informs us that the “United States dominates the world through its military power.” If, as he asserts, “many Americans do not recognize” ...

At the most general level, I define imperialism as a form of global capitalism centred on continued extraction and transfers of value from poorer (or periphery) countries to rich (or core) countries, ...

Imperialism certainly remains a vital concept. Vladimir Lenin defined it in 1916 as the synthesis of banking and industrial capital into finance capital, and that remains essentially correct. Lenin ...

Blanca Missé is an associate professor at San Francisco State University and a Workers ’ Voice member, who is active with the Ukraine Solidarity Network and the Labor for Palestine National Network.