Capitalism’s forward march then becomes a story of satanic mills, the transport of millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas, the vast theft of land and raw materials during colonialism, and a rapacious system’s unprecedented assault on our natural environment. -Sven Beckert

"The other story of capitalism... highlights desperate factory workers, brutalized plantation slaves, starving farmers in once self-sufficient countrysides, expropriated Native peoples, and all the victims of colonialism, war, and displacement." Sven Beckert, Capitalism

Some book recommendations about worker exploitation in the Pacific:

"The Technocrats have chosen technology over politics (the will of the people), and they are busy building an antimajoritarian society that will give them the independence to pursue their kind of monopoly capitalism, free of the constraints of democracy." -Jonathan Taplin

"The military-industrial complex took up to 60 percent of our (American) discretionary spending, and so, unlike most advanced democracies, we could not afford health care for all citizens or free college for anyone who couldn’t afford it." -Jonathan Taplin

"...Sending a manned mission to Mars, as you will see, is a pointless ego trip for a man like Musk and a $10 trillion burden on the American taxpayers when there are so many other pressing issues to address, like renewable energy." -Jonathan Taplin

"Someone once said libertarians are like house cats: they believe they are fiercely independent but are completely oblivious of the fact that their entire existence is dependent on a support system they do not perceive or understand." -Jonathan Taplin

"United States economic development of Micronesia was a dismal failure." -Micronesia: Trust Betrayed by Donald F. McHenry

Some great books you should read:

"...The trust territory of the Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa are caught in a no man's land between independence and statehood. The problems raised by territories are perplexing in an anti-colonialist world." -Micronesia: Trust Betrayed

"Partially because its economy & land are dominated by the military and persons not of Chamorro descent, Guam is frequently cited by Micronesians as an example of what they wish to avoid." -Micronesia: Trust Betrayed

"Capitalism is an international regime of waste that systematically destroys human life and nature for the profit of a very small coterie of people." -Ali Kadri

"According to David Michael Smith’s calculations, the expansion of capitalism in North America and the imperial endeavors of the United States have led to the death of some 300 million people in an unending U.S.-American Holocaust."

"The bourgeois state and bourgeois culture are products of a particular socioeconomic system: capitalism. This is what is driving the contradiction between democratic appearance and authoritarian reality." -Rockhill, Gabriel. Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

AmeriKKKa/Israhell murdered 100 Iranian school girls.

CIA= Capitalism's Imperial Agency

"Whatever problems might occur within socialist countries, it should never be forgotten that they emerged out of, and within, a capitalist world intent on crushing them by any means necessary because of what they represent: an alternative to imperialism." -Gabriel Rockhill

(The US was) established as an antidemocratic republic—meaning oligarchy—founded on a violent war of aggression and dispossession against the working class, characterized by colonization, Indigenous genocide, chattel slavery, indentured servitude, and domestic slavery. - G. Rockhill

Important article: The Republic of Palau and the United States: Self-determination Becomes the Price of Free Association habeleinstitute.org/wiki/Zotero_...

By ignoring Palauans' right to selfdetermination, by using its economic leverage coercively, and by participating in the corruption of Palauan officials to secure passage of the Compact, the US has demonstrated significant disloyalty to fundamental principles of international law

"...The Palauans adopted a constitution that included provisions on matters central to the sovereignty of Palau, and the United States found the provisions objectionable. The US subsequently ignored the freely expressed wishes of the Palauan people..." -Jon Hinck

"Precisely because the United States has severely limited Palauans' free choice on matters crucial to sovereignty, U.S. actions violate Palauans' right of self-determination." -The Republic of Palau and the US: Self- Determination becomes the Price of Free Association, Jon Hinck

"... The United States (has) violated the Palauans' right of self-determination by undermining freely chosen constitutional provisions to protect Palau's environment and restrict foreign military activities in Palau." -Jon Hinck

The disastrous effects of mass tourism on island cultures is best observed in Hawai'i, where the multibillion dollar industry has resulted in grotesque commercialization of our Native culture, creation of a racially stratified, poorly paid servant class... -Haunani-Kay Trask

"Because of their familial attachment to both land and sea, Pacific Islanders know a solidarity of geography and culture. Despite their diversity, they are all Island peoples in struggle with larger predatory powers." -Haunani-kay Trask

'The continuing ravages of colonialism are what the United States has bequeathed to Hawaiians, Micronesians, and Samoans.' -Haunani-Kay Trask, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii

'From the Indians of the Americas to Pacific Island Natives, to the indigenous peoples of Asia, the United States has an unbroken record of invasion, land theft, and genocide.' -Haunani-kay Trask, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii

'If the Hawaiian experience with tourism has taught anything, it is that inundation of small land bases and populations by hordes of visitors depletes the Native culture to a point of irreparable damage.' -Haunani-Kay Trask

'The First World nations must still learn what Pacific Islanders have known for millennia: upon the survival of the Pacific depends the survival of the world.' -Haunani-Kay Trask

'Migration is treated as a recent phenomenon, even though the genocide, displacement, and movement of millions of people was unequally structured by European colonialism for three centuries...' -Harsha Walia, Border and Rule

'Australia’s oppressive offshore detention system, including on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, is squarely connected to the genocidal history of colonization and racist regulation of migration by White Australia.' -Harsha Walia, Border and Rule

'Most ironic, the migration crisis is declared a new crisis with Western countries positioned as its victims, even though for four centuries nearly eighty million Europeans became settler-colonists across the Americas and Oceania...' -Harsha Walia, Border and Rule

'Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana' has fought for decades— from stopping military bombing in the 1970s to leading cultural, ecological, and spiritual restoration today. Their mission remains clear: protect the island, revive its traditions, and ensure its future.'

The Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific movement emerged in the 1970s to resist nuclear testing, colonialism, and militarization across the Pacific. Led by Indigenous communities, it united the region to demand sovereignty, protect the ocean, and end nuclear harm.

'Islands such as Guam, the Hawaiian Islands, American Samoa, and the Marshall Islands are places where local environmental health and human security have been sacrificed for the sake of maintaining U.S. “national security” and hegemony in Asia.' -Sasha Davis, The Empires' Edge

"...the US treated these islands (Micronesia) as areas of strategic denial, sites for military bases, and sacrifice zones for nuclear weapons testing. The US blocked attempts for formal sovereignty... by disallowing any foreign direct investment for 3 decades." -Sasha Davis

"It is inaccurate to state that there is an urgent need for a robust US military presence in the Western Pacific to counter an imminent, articulated Chinese threat, because that threat appears to emanate more from actors in Washington than it does from Beijing." -Sasha Davis

"...the Pacific continues to be treated by external states not so much as a home to Indigenous inhabitants but as a stage on which to compete with each other militarily, politically, and economically." -Sasha Davis; Islands & Oceans, Reimagining Sovereignty & Social Change

"Whether we are talking about unincorporated territories such as Guåhan, commonwealths such as the Northern Marianas,... or incorporated/occupied archipelagos such as Hawaii, there is nothing post-colonial about the contemporary Pacific." -Sasha Davis, Islands & Oceans

"Anti-militarization social movements prioritize regulative principles that include environmental protection... an articulated desire for political self-determination/decolonization, concern for human health, and the ways militarization particularly affects women..." Sasha Davis

"On the left side of the political spectrum, indigenous groups, anti-imperialist social movements, and progressive anti-capitalists have looked to enhancing sovereignty as a way to resist the exploitation of transnational capitalism..." -Sasha Davis

Contradicting the pundits... social movements in the Pacific are evolving whose aims are not to support one hegemonic power or another, but rather to transcend hegemony and domination as the organizing principles of international politics. -Sasha Davis, The Empires' Edge

The islands in the imperial margins of the western Pacific have been subjected to intense militarization and colonial practices that aim to control their landscapes, ecologies, politics, and societies. -Sasha Davis, The Empires' Edge