The “Land of the Free” Has Been the Enemy of Freedom Around the World

For hundreds of millions across the world, the stars and stripes are symbols of US empire, not independence.

Today, streets and lawns throughout the United States bristle with red, white and blue, and a settler colony built on genocide and slavery seeks to depict itself as a scrappy young underdog that overthrew the yokes of British tyranny. Yet for hundreds of millions around the world, the stars and stripes have been a symbol not of independence but of coercion, oppression and forced dependence.

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