This week we continue our series of the History of U.S. Imperialism with a class on the Height of American Unipolarity, covering events from 2005 to 2020. This includes the various wars and interventions under the second term of George W. Bush, and under the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. We will touch on Libya, Syria, Yemen, Donbas, and more. We will also address the domestic conditions during this time, such as the repression against whistleblowers like Julian Assange, the 2008 financial crisis, the immigration crisis, civil rights struggles and more. This class is the second to last in our nine class series on U.S. Imperialism.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

3:30 Bush, Obama, and the "Global War on Terror" 2005-2016

6:40 Video - Libya's slave trade: 'They sell Africans over there'

13:40 Video - Victoria Nuland Leaked Phonecall

19:20 Q&A 1

29:50 Trump and the Unraveling of American Unipolarity 2016-2020

31:20 Video - Mother of All Bombs

41:15 Video - Trump and Stoltenberg get into tense exchange at NATO summit

44:30 Q&A 2

53:30 Domestic Conditions in Late 2000's and 2010's America

1:02:10 Q&A 3 and Conclusion