Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin is Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft Prize; Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Empire’s Workshop; The Last Colonial Massacre; The Blood of Guatemala; Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman The End of the Myth, and America, América: A New History of the New World.

Latin America

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

Greg Grandin

The Pentagon has so far destroyed 18 go-fast boats there and in the Pacific Ocean. No evidence has been presented that those were drug ships

Colonialism

500 Years of Inflicted Horrors, from the New World to Israel

Greg Grandin

( Tomdispatch.com ) – Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in Central America, Golub had been asked what it meant to him to be a “Jewish political artist.” The painter’s quick reply was that he wasn’t a “Jewish political artist,” he […]

Immigration

Ripping Suckling Babes from their Mothers’ Breasts: Trump’s Border Porn

Greg Grandin

(Tomdispatch.com) – On February 15th, Donald Trump declared a state of national emergency in order to fund his “great, great” border wall without having to go through Congress. There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy. In speech after speech, including […]

Donald Trump

How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall:” A Timeline of Border Fortification

Greg Grandin

Led by the 27-year-old David Duke, the Ku Klux Klan set up a “border watch” in 1977 at the San Ysidro point of entry