Hi, everybody. We're going to set the tone for this episode with a short clip of Secretary of War,

good old Whiskey Pete Heggseth, making the USA sound like the good guys in reference to the capture mission of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro earlier yesterday.

Adversaries remain on notice.

America can project our will anywhere, anytime.

The coordination, the stealth, the lethality, the precision, the very long arm of American

justice, all on full display in the middle of the night.

American justice on full display in the middle of the night. American justice on full display in the middle of the night under night vision and

aerial bombardment.

Hello and welcome to colonial outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast that is doing a special

Saturday episode because we have come to the fall of the Roman Republic 2.0, where the empire is unmasked

in a might-makes-right era of unceasing, resource-driven wars of domination waged with zero

moral pretext or costus belly. The one difference is that the average Roman citizen may

have been lucky enough to receive an infrequent large cash distribution, a land

allotment for the destitute and conquered territories, or access to vital resources like grain

from Egypt and metals from Spain, which lowered the costs of living. None of that will be

happening for you or the people of Venezuela as a result of this imperialist intervention.

There will be no trickle-down economics.

That isn't a thing.

Even Milton Freeman, who came up with it, disavowed it, coming from the privatization

of Venezuela's oil sector.

It will not be happening for Iran or Somaliland or Nigeria or Colombia or Cuba,

which are next on the imperial target deck and countless lives will be destroyed, perhaps even yours, in the most

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