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Empire’s Workshop with Greg Grandin

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The Ragand Back Contra Army in Nicaragua

You write that the ragand back contra army in nicaragua was part of a web of reaction and repression. But today we just remember it as the uran contra scandal, you say. Why did the democrats refuse to confront regan's militarism on more fundamental terms? And what was there some sort of shift in the party under way? I read conseus two scandals. One was that the boldened amendment prohibited the applecation of military aid to support the contrence. This waspart of a general kind of roll back of us. Militarism after va mam. You know, i mean, if you find that vie, you will see a new deal

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