Have you heard of #MorrisBerman
I think you'd love his books
Very relevant.
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25 years on and this first book of a profound #MorrisBerman trilogy burns brightly still. Meanwhile, the Emperor plays a golf fiddle and ‘dances’ the night away as piles of smoldering dreams showcase decimated immigrant communities across the American landscape. Terrible stuff. #VillagePeople
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#empireofillusion by #chrishedges and #darkagesamerica by #morrisberman are hardcore truth bombs #nonfiction #uspolitics #usempire #americanempire
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@paulwalker44.bsky.social #Guatemala has done good #landreform in the past
/Arbenz expropriated large tracts of land and redistributed them to one hundred thousand landless peasants #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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@feralcommie.bsky.social #Guatemala has done good #landreform in the past
/Arbenz expropriated large tracts of land and redistributed them to one hundred thousand landless peasants #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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The tragedy of American diplomacy, then: #selfdetermination on our terms; subversion of #democracy in order to preserve it ##usimperialism #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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Under #richardnixon Once again, #usa claimed to oppose #socialism because it denied #freedomofchoice, but when a nation such as Chile freely chose it, the #CIA was called in for dirty tricks operations ##usimperialism #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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#richardNixon secretly bombed North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia in 1969, and toppled Chile’s legitimately elected government in 1973. #usimperialism #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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The absurdity of the #vietnamwar a superpower pounding a peasant country to dust for opposing the American will #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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All in all, #usa wound up killing millions of civilians, laying waste to the land with tens of millions of gallons of carcinogenic herbicides, and generating more than six million refugees #Vietnamwar #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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#usa cruelty #Vietnamwar An exposé published in The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, in October 2003 (for which the newspaper was subsequently awarded the Pulitzer Prize) revealed that the famous massacre at #MyLai was hardly unique #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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The self-destructive character of American foreign policy came to full fruition in what is surely our greatest debacle (to date), Vietnam—“the largest imperial war of the century #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman #antiimperialism
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#usa supported #fascism By allying ourselves with repressive regimes, we aligned ourselves against the populations of those countries. These regimes canceled or rigged elections and jailed or murdered dissenters. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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#usa has been an obstacle to world #progress for many decades / at the time of Kennedy’s death the #CIA was planning to sabotage the #Cuban economy and, once again, to assassinate #fidelCastro / #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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#coldwar #Dulles #secretaryofstate under #Eisenhower He believed the #UnitedStates actually had an interest in being threatened— #usalies #americalies #uspropaganda #americanpropaganda #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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They don't have to #ban books just remove them #rageagainstthemachine #bullsonparade / I see #bookban (s) in #florida but people here don't read anyway / the average #American 🇺🇲 only reads 6 minutes a day #darkageamerica #morrisberman
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the #conspiracytheory of a global #redscare menace threatening to engulf the world was grossly exaggerated by the #UnitedStates for #imperial purposes #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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#Coldwar On both sides, the presence of a powerful enemy served to generate a huge apparatus of employment and government expenditures #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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THE ONLY THING THAT kept #America from establishing a full-fledged #empire in the postwar period was the presence of the #SovietUnion as a restraining force #imperialism / #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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Our relationship with the #MiddleEast is the culmination of a #foreignpolicy that has been building for some time now and will prove to be, I believe, the linchpin of the #American downfall. #freepalestine #freegaza / #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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If #American interests is broadened in this way, the similarity of our situation to that of the late #RomanEmpire becomes strikingly obvious. #americanempire #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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#American vision of themselves as bringing #freedom and the American way of life to the world, being atop a #racialhierarchy (although this is no longer expressed overtly), and keeping political #revolution at bay. ##DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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#America had no problem backing oppressive #dictator (s) who would put a stop to attempts at #liberation, what were mostly #nationalist movements. Nor did the #UnitedStates have any problem working with #colonial powers. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman #imperialism #colonialism
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#Revolution has been seen by #Americans as a kind of solemn affair, led by respectable #middleclass citizens in powdered wigs and harnessed to moderate #political goals. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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Americans don’t respect #cultural patterns different from their own, and this has facilitated an #imperial foreign policy. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman #imperialism #racialhierarchy
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#american newspaper cartoons depicted blacks as brutes or children, Asians as inscrutable or somnolent. Motion pictures portrayed Latinos as greasers, Latinas as sultry, and Arabs as devious, fanatical, or evil. #racialhierarchy #morrisberman #DarkAgesAmerica
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But #Americans (s) says Thompson, have often discussed their #foreignpolicy in terms of #nationalsecurity, #prestige, #racism, and #religion as well, and these have sometimes been autonomous from economic issues. #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman #imperialism
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Is #American #foreignpolicy the product of interlocking business and political elites? Is it just an economic #ManifestDestiny writ large? #WilliamApplemanWilliams #iimperialism #DarkAgesAmerica #morrisberman
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