title: Broadcasting Dissent, Investigative Journalist Abby Martin
abstract: ‘We are here for your fucking freedom!’ a US soldier bellows, pointing a gun at a crowd of sceptical locals. The nineteenth-century concept of manifest destiny propelled American settlers across the expanse of their own fledging country, and its legacy lives on in modern-day Fallujah. It’s easy to see how the less-sullied manifest destiny of earlier times, which powered the penetration of the west, farming and building along the way, remains an important aspect of the American psyche, how it ser
journal: University of the Arts London Research Online (University of the Arts London)