From labeling protesters “terrorists” to deploying militarized police and ICE as paramilitary forces, these tactics aren’t new. They mirror the same methods the U.S. has used for decades across the Global South — now turned inward.
Drawing on international law, colonial history, and the concept of the “imperial boomerang,” former UN human right’s official Craig Mokhiber explains how repression abroad becomes repression at home — and what it signals about the U.S. state’s posture toward its own population.