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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Today's US Empire is often informal, mostly disavowed, and it's hard to precisely identify

within the geographically complex webs of power and wealth that shape today's capitalist world system.

To clarify today's geopolitics, then we must look to history.

And today, there is perhaps no episode of American imperial history less understood or even

remembered at all than US colonial rule in the Philippines, which formally began with the 1898

treaty ending the Spanish-American War and lasted until July 4, 1946.

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