“Backyard” Déjà Vu & Sy Hersh’s Price of Power

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Allende, Kissinger & Pig Empire Imperialism

The plain truth is that if you’re going to spend any significant amount of time writing about Pig Empire imperialism, you’re eventually going to have to talk about America’s atrocities and violence in Latin America; or as historian Greg Grandin has dubbed it the “Empire’s Workshop.” In this longer piece that combines both a short book review for Seymour Hersh’s “The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House” and an overview of the Trump administration’s intense (although at times, laughable) attempts to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro, to demonstrate that across multiple decades, and multiple administrations belonging to either party, the Pig Empire’s quest to dominate and pillage South and Central America on behalf of monopoly power and American enterprise, has simply never changed.

To read more about “American Empire’s Case of Backyard Déjà Vu in Venezuela” over on Can’t You Read click on the title header or quotation block below

“Backyard” Déjà Vu & Sy Hersh’s Price of Power

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