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Ideas Having Sex

23. Jonathan Katz - Gangsters of Capitalism

Jan 16, 2023
01:13:31

Jonathan Katz describes the economic motivations behind US interventions around the world.

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Today’s book: Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire

Jonathan Katz’s blog & Twitter

Jonathan Katz’s recommendations: Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump; and The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Other books discussed: War is a Racket, by Smedley Butler; Overthrow; and The True Flag

Topics: Haiti, China, Boxer Rebellion, revolution, war, business plot, coup

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