Under the name of nation-building projects, the Americans have sought to advance their own policies of imposing hegemony on other countries. Iraq and Afghanistan are just two cases in point.

The United States has long been drawing on cultural diplomacy as a soft power in order to maintain and spread its hegemony in different countries with different cultures.

Besides their economic activities, American organizations such as USAID focus plenty of focus, expense and energy on cultural activity in target countries, seeking change in the lifestyles of the people.

American organizations such as USAID, USIP, and NED have reached out to the people of the Middle East, trying to maintain their hegemony in the region through their seemingly cultural, humanitarian projects. 

Looks into the case of men sent to Iraq from poor countries by private US security companies as security guards who were forced to fight like a soldier without the training and a fraction of the money.

This documentary depicts how Britain, by not paying what it owes to African countries and instead by bribing the governments, is keeping these potentially rich countries in absolute poverty.

The US Army used Agent Orange during the Vietnam War as part of its herbicidal warfare program. This agent became the main reason of more than 500,000 birth defects in both the US and Vietnam.