The Tom Woods Show, episode 861.

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Woods. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. In this episode, I'm sharing with you a talk I gave, I can

hardly believe this, over 10 years ago in 2006, late 2006, at the Mises Institute,

and I went through the whole list of the previous 860 episodes to make absolutely sure I had never

used this before, and I don't believe I have. If I have, I'm going to feel sad about that. But it's a talk I gave called the Anti-Imperialist League and the Struggle Against Empire. And I'll say partly for the sake of the 17% or so of listeners who listen in countries other than the United States, what I'm talking about here is an organization that got started at the end of the 1800s and continued into the early 1900s around the time of

the Spanish-American War where the United States was fighting against Spain over Cuba.

But the really significant aspect of that, from the point of view of the Anti-Imperialist League,

was what happened after that war was over. And the Philippines, which had been a Spanish possession, fell into American hands.

Well, no doubt some of the anti-imperalists assumed that the United States would grant the Philippines their independence, but instead there was a brutal guerrilla war waged against American occupiers who, in fact,

did not intend to grant Philippine independence. So it became a drawn-out conflict with a lot of

casualties, many deaths, and the American Anti-Imperalist League was a group of people who believed

that this was un-American. If there's

anything un-American, this surely is it. And it's such an interesting group because it's such a

diverse, ideologically diverse group of people. So I think you'll enjoy listening to it. And,

well, I sure hope you do, because that's all I got for you today. So here we go. Well, the title of my talk is the anti-imperialist league and the battle against empire.

Now, thankfully, Professor Rako gave us a little bit of the history, so I don't need to go over that ground too much,

other than to say that what I'm talking about involves the ending, the last few years of the 19th century

and the opening of the 20th century, and that this organization that was formed in 18, late 1898,

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