Word: imperialistically
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...feels China has begun to shed its view that economic impoverishment stems solely from imperialist exploitation by the West. When he returned home for thesis research last summer, Huang says other scholars were starved for his Harvard-acquired knowledge of Western scientific techniques and the world economic system...
...years of surveillance, harassment and repression of the American left and the workers movement. From the persecution of Eugene V. Debs under the Espionage Act during World War I through the Smith Act attack on Trotskyists in the 1940s and the Communist Party in the 1950s, the drive for imperialist war abroad has always has always justified a war at home against all opposition. Under the guise of combatting "terrorism", FBI guidelines, presidential directives, Supreme Court rulings and Congressional measures have granted sweeping powers to military and secret police agencies for actual state-supported terrorism against the American people...
...acting against their interests. What Americans have not yet grasped is that terrorism is often a necessary byproduct of misguided foreign policy. Because the United States has acted carelessly, even recklessly, as a world power. Americans abroad have become ready targets for anti-American or anti-imperialist sentiment...
...this view, everything that is bad, especially in the Third World, results from forces in the "rich" - meaning capitalist -democracies. Thus any Western attempt to resist Communist aggression, as in Angola or Viet Nam, arouses intellectual confusion and paralysis. Says Revel: "There was a time when you were an imperialist if you invaded an alien territory and imposed on independent peoples an authority they rejected. Today, you are an imperialist if you oppose such aggression...
...existence of an international agency with powers more widespread than existing United Nations groups would keep any one power from establishing dominance over the developing nation in question. The organization would allocate funds for investment in specific areas. In essence, it would fulfill the developmental functions of an imperialist power without seeking to control the country or drain it of its resources...