2018-06-16

Happy (belated) Empire Day.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/15/the-day-the-us-became-an-empire/

"The US ought to have its own Empire Day and it should be on June 15.  It was on June 15, 1898 that the US became an empire.  On that day, the US House of Representatives voted 209 to 91 to annex Hawaii.  (The US Senate followed on July 6, voting 42 to 21 in favor of annexation.)"

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