the similarities of our experiences on the Left are greater than the differences: Most of the political activists I knew in that volatile period expe… - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"A nation of immigrants" was a mid-twentieth-century revisionist origin story.

The opening of the twenty-first century saw a new, even more brazen form of US militarism and imperialism explode on the world scene when the election of George W. Bush turned over control of US foreign policy to a long-gestating neoconservative and warmongering faction of the Pentagon and its civilian hawks. Their subsequent eight years of political control included two major military invasions and hundreds of small wars employing US Special Forces around the globe, establishing a template that continued after their political power waned.

A number of independent nation-states with seats in the United Nations have less territory and smaller populations than some Indigenous nations of North America.