Washington Bullets
by Vijay Prashad · first published 2020
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…viable system of production. If you’re genuinely interested in exploring this from a systemic perspective, I can recommend Zak Cope’s ‘The Wealth of Some Nations’, as well as Vijay Prashad’s recent book ‘Washington Bullets‘, or anything written by him really.
on “Putin's Billion Dollar Palace” ↗…Gideon). This was a plan to actually invade the country by boat with a small force to try to take control of the government. This is part of a pattern of behavior for the US in the 20th century. The book Washington Bullets does a good job cataloguing the various interventions of this form.
on “Thoughts about the impact of long peace” ↗…suicide, and other stuff of that sort. Books such as Vincent Bevins's "The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World" (2020) and Vijay Prashad's "Washington Bullets" (2020) are part of this budding understanding, whose foothold is firm both academically and in terms of popularity. But I think in the end it's always better to hear it from the perpetrators themselves,…
on “How Chile Won Back Its Democracy” ↗> UN is a joke. I just finished reading "Washington Bullets" [1]. (Part of) It is a crash course into how and why institutions like UN, IMF etc. are they way they are. And honestly, I just feel paralyzed after reading the book. These institutions just don't have…
on “Baltic airlines reroute flights to avoid Belarus airspace” ↗