Status Updates From Empire's Workshop: Latin Am...

The description of counterinsurgency methods are sickening to read but impossible not to connect with genocide happening in Gaza. So much of this period post-Vietnam into the Reagan admin where Central America was used to test these tactics, has stuck with us in ways I fear have only gotten worse. Also, If soldiers can be made into animals who carry this out, I worry populations can be made to accept it even easier

The rise of the new right following the Vietnam war sheds some light on Carters failure as a president. When he died, I didn’t know much about him. His moral language was a catalyst to Regan’s marvel cinematic understanding of global politics which still defines much of our attitudes today .Evil bad man Maduro, Putler, etc. must be stopped by the good guys! Want to learn more about the 70’s anti war congress

First couple of pages are packed with historical examples and explanations of how the US slowly became what it is today through workshopping strategies and tactics in Latin America. The groundwork of so much of what we are seeing today with Trumps move back to the western hemisphere is laid bare by Grandin early in this work