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Did American Business Leaders Really Try to Overthrow the President, Like in "Amsterdam"?
How David O. Russell’s movie messes around with the story of the Business Plot.
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Jonathan M. Katz
via
Slate
on
October 8, 2022
The Marine Who Turned Against U.S. Empire
What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?
by
Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
on
January 11, 2022
The Plot Against American Democracy That Isn't Taught in Schools
How the authors of the Depression-era “Business Plot” aimed to take power away from FDR and stop his “socialist” New Deal.
by
Jonathan M. Katz
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Rolling Stone
on
January 1, 2022
In Trump's Plot to Seize the White House, Who Will Be Our Smedley Butler?
In 1934, a fascist coup was planned to remove President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and stop the New Deal. Donald Trump has made it relevant again.
by
Jonathan M. Katz
via
The Long Version
on
January 5, 2021
The Resounding Darkness of America’s Black Sites
It is in the hidden spaces of American empire that the realities of power can truly be seen.
by
Jonathan M. Katz
via
The Baffler
on
January 10, 2022
Merchants of Death
From the Nye Committee to Joe Kent, the fight against war profiteering is a constant struggle.
by
Hunter DeRensis
via
The American Conservative
on
November 8, 2021
The Racist Origins of U.S. Policing
Modern policing is linked to overseas colonial projects of conquest, occupation, and rule. Demilitarization requires uprooting that worldview.
by
Julian Go
via
Foreign Affairs
on
July 16, 2020
