Painted in 1954, the mockingly titled Glorious Victory has as its subject the infamous CIA coup of the same year that overthrew Guatemala’s democratically elected government. At the center of the mural, CIA Director John Foster Dulles can be seen shaking hands with the leader of the coup d’état, Colonel Castillo Armas. Sitting at their feet is an anthropomorphized bomb bearing the smiling face of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower - who gave orders to launch the military coup. In the background, a priest can be seen officiating over the massacre of workers, many of which can be seen lying slaughtered in the painting’s foreground.
"My new book is a joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen war that decisively shaped today’s world."
"John Foster Dulles was secretary of state while his brother, Allen Dulles, was director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In this book, I place their extraordinary lives against the background of American culture and history. I use the framework of biography to ask: Why does the United States behave as it does in the world?"...Stephen Kinzer
Another New Book...Detroit: An American Autopsy
With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation only a native son possesses, LeDuff sets out to uncover what destroyed his city. He embeds with a local fire brigade struggling to defend its city against systemic arson and bureaucratic corruption. He investigates politicians of all stripes, from the smooth-talking mayor to career police officials to ministers of the backstreets, following the paperwork to discover who benefits from Detroit’s decline. He beats on the doors of union bosses and homeless squatters, powerful businessmen and struggling homeowners, and the ordinary people holding the city together by sheer determination. If Detroit is America’s vanguard in good times and bad, then here is the only place to turn for guidance in our troubled era. While redemption is thin on the ground in this ghost of a city, Detroit: An American Autopsy is no hopeless parable. LeDuff shares an unbelievable story of a hard town in a rough time filled with some of the strangest and strongest people our country has to offer. Detroit is a dark comedy of the absurdity of American life in the twenty-first century, a deeply human drama of colossal greed and endurance, ignorance and courage.
The once great socialist city of Detroit, a true socialist one-party state. One with only a hand full of powerful Democrats controlling almost every aspect of the individuals life. A city where union leaders and politicians were in bed together for decades. Both lining their pockets with the peoples wealth and stealing the future of their children. Children, that now run wild in the streets. Streets that are nothing but breeding places for rats and drug dealers. Detroit is a snap shot of America's future if we continue to allow liberal politicians and their union flunkies to steal from hard working citizens. Because at some point those hard working Americans will no longer see the benefit of working their butts off just to have their earning stripped away in the form of socialist wealth re-distribution. And at that point the money that supported the free loaders will dry up and all the major cities in the U.S. will follow Detroit.
H/T to Ron Russell
Guerra Mundial
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