imperialism

It asserted that “for most Americans” the war against Japan was a “war of vengeance,” but “for most Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture against Western imperialism.”

Gone are the fiery denunciations from just a few weeks ago attacking American imperialism and touting his courage.

“Cortez the Killer” shimmers into existence, and a listener might contemplate that while it’s another one of Young’s monumental mid-’70s mythic journeys, it’s also essentially a story about imperialism.

"I was not a supporter of British imperialism, in fact I detested it," Yavar tells me.

Guevara, one year younger, was a physician from a middle-class Buenos Aires’ upbringing brimming with revolutionary fervor — and a vision of a pan-Latin American socialist union, free of U.S. “imperialism.”