They built the war machine. Together, we will dismantle it.
750 military bases. 50 million tonnes of C02. Trillions of dollars in profits.
Today, we say: Shut it down.
Join the global movement against US militarism.
In 1823, US President James Monroe set out a doctrine of US domination over the Western Hemisphere.
In the two centuries since, the dimensions of US domination have only grown, achieving “a pre-eminence not enjoyed by even the greatest empires of the past,” according to Henry Kissinger.
The US operates some 750 overseas bases in 80 countries around the world — and commands a budget of nearly $1 trillion, or 40% of total global military spending.
The sprawling infrastructure of US empire has made it, in the words of President Jimmy Carter, "the most warlike nation in the history of the world.”
Now, that ‘warlike’ contagion is spreading. Through mechanisms like the Global Fragility Act, the US increasingly relies on proxies to implement its imperial policies.
200 years from the foundation of the Monroe Doctrine, the peoples of the world have had enough of US imperialism and its disastrous costs for human life and habitat.
They built the war machine. Together, we will dismantle it.
In 1823, US President James Monroe set out a doctrine of US domination over the Western Hemisphere.
In the two centuries since, the dimensions of US domination have only grown, achieving “a pre-eminence not enjoyed by even the greatest empires of the past,” according to Henry Kissinger.
The US operates some 750 overseas bases in 80 countries around the world — and commands a budget of nearly $1 trillion, or 40% of total global military spending.
The sprawling infrastructure of US empire has made it, in the words of President Jimmy Carter, "the most warlike nation in the history of the world.”
Now, that ‘warlike’ contagion is spreading. Through mechanisms like the Global Fragility Act, the US increasingly relies on proxies to implement its imperial policies.
200 years from the foundation of the Monroe Doctrine, the peoples of the world have had enough of US imperialism and its disastrous costs for human life and habitat.
They built the war machine. Together, we will dismantle it.
1. Demilitarize
US militarism sustains profound political tensions around the world. Its interventions have destroyed nation after nation, leaving a trail of violence and sorrow in their wake. Ending US militarism means saving lives.
2. Decontaminate
The US military is one of the world’s worst polluters. It consumes more liquid fuels and emits more greenhouse gases than most countries — and its training grounds devastate entire habitats. Ending US militarism means saving the planet.
3. Decolonize
US wars — both military and economic — hold back and pillage the Global South. Nations seeking paths of sovereign development are routinely targeted, while repressive governments instituting violent free-market policies — in the explicit interest of US corporations and at the expense of their own resources, land, and people — are celebrated and armed. Ending US militarism means decolonizing the Global South.
1. Demilitarize
US militarism sustains profound political tensions around the world. Its interventions have destroyed nation after nation, leaving a trail of violence and sorrow in their wake. Ending US militarism means saving lives.
2. Decontaminate
The US military is one of the world’s worst polluters. It consumes more liquid fuels and emits more greenhouse gases than most countries — and its training grounds devastate entire habitats. Ending US militarism means saving the planet.
3. Decolonize
US wars — both military and economic — hold back and pillage the Global South. Nations seeking paths of sovereign development are routinely targeted, while repressive governments instituting violent free-market policies — in the explicit interest of US corporations and at the expense of their own resources, land, and people — are celebrated and armed. Ending US militarism means decolonizing the Global South.
The US has 750 military bases in 80 countries and a total of over 173,000 troops in 159 countries. It has launched 469 military interventions since 1798, 251 of which took place after the fall of the Soviet Union. Between 2017 and 2020 alone, the US launched 23 covert interventions across Africa, West Asia and the Pacific.
Sources: US Congressional Research Service; The Intercept.
"Despite seemingly ceding control to Guam’s local government, the US military has entwined itself in Guam’s economy, environment, and culture to great and damaging effect over the last century. The impacts have been profound, from economic dependency and the funneling of generations of Chamorro into military service, to high rates of terminal illness due to toxic waste and weapons pollution.”
Julian Aguon
Blue Ocean Law, Guam
“Pakistan’s long-suffering masses have borne the brunt of decades of imperialism and continue to face newer forms of imperial domination. Today, the geo-economic wars waged by the United States in our region, particularly the Second Cold War, risk once again turning the entire region into an international battlefield for world powers.”
Ismat Shahjahan
Women’s Democratic Front
Pakistan
"US imperialism faces the interlocking crises of overproduction at the economic level, overextension at the military-political level and legitimacy at the ideological level. If we do not meet the challenge of this crisis, then something worse can take the place of the current system, enveloping our entire region in war.”
Walden Bello
Focus on the Global South
The Philippines
“The peoples of Colombia live under the imperialist yoke since the times of Spanish colonialism. Colombia’s dependent economy is servile to the interests of North American capital, whose purpose is to extract its wealth and sow dispossession, slavery, and death in its territories.
U.S. imperialism promotes violence and wars through its doctrine of security and defense, military operations with organizations such as NATO, and its policy of interference in the territories, in which Colombia is the spearhead that sustains interventionism across our America — all under the pretext of fighting communism, drugs or terrorism. Or under the excuse of "humanitarian aid", which ensures domination.
We, the peoples, will continue in resistance and struggle for dignity, sovereignty, the defense of territories and buen vivir (”good living”). We will continue to walk together in this project.”
Jimmy Moreno
People’s Congress
Colombia
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Case studies
Around the world, US militarism devastates
societies and natural habitats to expand and sustain the US-led capitalist system and force nations and peoples to contribute to their own explotation.
Palestine
Since the end of the British mandate, the United States has backed Zionism as an instrument of imperial control in West Asia. To this day, Israel's role in the region remains unchanged — to suppress self-determination in the Arab world and advance reaction far beyond it. “If there were no Israel, we’d have to invent one,” Joe Biden once quipped.
As the Israeli regime continues its murderous campaign against the people of Gaza, the entire economic and political infrastructure of the West is backing it — financially, militarily, diplomatically, and informationally. That is why this moment, so ripe with resistance, is an opportunity to strike back at US imperialism as a whole — taking on the companies and institutions that support the violence in Palestine and far beyond it.
Haiti
Over two centuries ago, the Haitian Revolution tore through the fabric of time, defeating the French colonizers, liberating the enslaved, and establishing the world’s first Black republic. For their victory, internationalism and courage, the people of Haiti continue to face the wrath of colonizers through invasions, plunder and regime change. Illegal interventionism in Haiti is motivated by the desire of the US — in its own words — to prevent “resurgent populist and anti-market economy political forces” from taking hold. Today, the US is preparing for a new invasion — this time adopting a new tactic that uses proxies to carry out its imperial policies.
Guam
Guam, an island just 30 miles long, faces the largest buildup of US military forces in the history of the Pacific. The US is turning the island and its surrounding waters into a training ground spanning 984,469 square nautical miles — an area larger than India. It plans to fire 6.7 million rounds of ammunition over Guam’s aquifer, which supplies 85% of the island with clean drinking water, devastating the health of the island’s people. The US military is already responsible for terrible environmental devastation on the island, including the eradication of Guam’s native songbirds. The destruction serves nothing more than the expansion of the US’s regional hegemony — and building up the military force to constrain China’s continued development.
Western Sahara
In the course of the 20th century, peoples and nations across Africa won their freedom from colonial rule. Western Sahara was the only exception — and remains so today under foreign occupation. Spain, which colonized Western Sahara, abandoned it in 1975, handing the territory to Mauritania and Morocco. Morocco continues to occupy the land illegally — with the support of the US and its allies, who have turned a blind eye to the violence in exchange for Morocco's historic role in fighting communist and anti-systemic forces in the region and, more recently, its normalization of relations with the Israeli regime.
Okinawa
After the Second World War, the US occupied and administered the island of Okinawa with a singular purpose: to establish a military foothold in the region that served, initially, as a forward base for its vicious war against the Korean people. In the course of its occupation, the US stole vast tracts of land from Okinawa's native people by bulldozing homes and farms, displacing 12,000 households and relegating the population to slopes and valleys. Despite sustained resistance, the US continues to operate 32 military facilities in the area, which are home to over 30,000 troops. Okinawa is the only place outside the US that hosts the Marine Corps on a division scale. To the people of Okinawa, the US presence is terror. To the world, it represents a continuous escalation in a Cold War that is heating up every year.
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Communist Party of Kenya
Congreso de los Pueblos
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Palestine Action US
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