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A People’s Obituary of Henry Kissinger
For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
November 30, 2023
Cormac McCarthy’s Unforgiving Parables of American Empire
He demonstrated how the frontier wasn’t an incubator of democratic equality but a place of unrelenting pain, cruelty, and suffering.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
June 21, 2023
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal—Still at Large at 100
We now know a great deal about the crimes he committed while in office. But we know little about his four decades with Kissinger Associates.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
May 15, 2023
Slavery, and American Racism, Were Born in Genocide
Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
January 20, 2020
There’s One Heresy That Sets Bernie Apart From All Other Dem Contenders to Unseat Trump
And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Nation
on
July 16, 2019
How Violent American Vigilantes at the Border Led to Trump’s Wall
From the 80s onwards, the borderlands were rife with paramilitary cruelty and racism. But the president’s rhetoric has thrown fuel on the fire.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Guardian
on
February 28, 2019
How the U.S. Weaponized the Border Wall
The borderlands have “been transformed into a vast graveyard of the missing.”
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Intercept
on
February 10, 2019
How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall”
A timeline of border fortification, from 1945 to the Trump Era.
by
Greg Grandin
via
Tom Dispatch
on
January 13, 2019
The Border Patrol has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924
The U.S. needs a historical reckoning with the true cause of the border crisis: the long, brutal history of border enforcement itself.
by
Greg Grandin
via
The Intercept
on
January 12, 2019
American Extremism Has Always Flowed from the Border
Donald Trump says there is “a crisis of the soul” at the border. He is right, though not in the way he thinks.
by
Greg Grandin
via
Boston Review
on
January 9, 2019
Washington Trained Guatemala’s Mass Murderers—and the Border Patrol Played a Role
Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. But the agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history.
by
Greg Grandin
,
Elizabeth Oglesby
via
The Nation
on
January 3, 2019
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Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies
In a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and newsrooms.
by
Spencer Ackerman
via
Rolling Stone
on
November 30, 2023
The Bloody History of Border Militias Runs Deep — and Law Enforcement Is Part of It
The West's history is full of stories of white Americans taking the law into their own hands to beat back nonwhite populations.
by
Ryan Deveraux
via
The Intercept
on
May 23, 2019
The Myth of the American Frontier
Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.
by
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
via
The Nation
on
April 1, 2019
When the Frontier Becomes the Wall
What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.
by
Francisco Cantú
via
The New Yorker
on
March 4, 2019
Blood on His Hands
Survivors of Kissinger's secret war in Cambodia reveal unreported mass killings.
by
Nick Turse
via
The Intercept
on
May 24, 2023
Cowboy Progressives
You likely think of the American West as deeply conservative and rural. Yet history shows this politics is very new indeed.
by
Daniel J. Herman
via
Aeon
on
April 8, 2022
Teaching (amid a) White Backlash
A brief scholarly overview to understand the contours of white backlashes, their historical impact, and the ways they shape the world we inherit.
by
William Horne
via
Clio and the Contemporary
on
January 12, 2022
What the Term “Gun Culture” Misses About White Supremacy
The rise of tactical gun culture among civilians reveals a new front in the U.S. battle against nativist authoritarianism.
by
Chad Kautzer
via
Boston Review
on
December 17, 2021
The Hour of the Barbarian
What happened on January 6 was profoundly American, emerging as it did from our long and very specific history. No one did this to us.
by
Vincent Bevins
via
n+1
on
January 11, 2021
Necessary to the Security of a Free State
On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism.
by
Angelo Guisado
via
Current Affairs
on
May 8, 2019
Remember El Mozote
On December 11, 1981, El Salvador’s US-backed soldiers carried out one of the worst massacres in the history of the Americas at El Mozote.
by
Branko Marcetic
,
Micah Uetricht
via
Jacobin
on
December 12, 2016
