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I kind of expected this sort of revisionist history coming out of them as soon as they mentioned the 1836 project. Completely ignore the fact that the Americans illegally immigrated into Mexico, enslaved people, and then stole Texas from them. The majority of that war was over though right to practice slave trading on that land.
Fortunately, you can still get the book at Amazon or audible
https://www.amazon.com/Forget-Alamo-Rise-Fall-American/dp/1984880098/ref=mp_s_a_1_1
Also not my specialty, but I did a lot of Conquest-era history during my undergraduate, so I know a bit of the historiography.
If you're interested in the Mexican example, Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico might be what you're looking for. It comprises translations of Nahuatl-language accounts of the Spanish Conquest. Here's a link to a short review for more information.
The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins > In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union and inspiring copycat terror programs in faraway countries like Brazil and Chile. But these events remain widely overlooked, precisely because the CIA’s secret interventions were so successful.
>In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently declassified documents, archival research and eye-witness testimony collected across twelve countries to reveal a shocking legacy that spans the globe. For decades, it’s been believed that parts of the developing world passed peacefully into the U.S.-led capitalist system. The Jakarta Method demonstrates that the brutal extermination of unarmed leftists was a fundamental part of Washington’s final triumph in the Cold War.
If anyone wants a more specific case study, The Jakarta Method, by Vincent Bevins is a really good (and horrifying) historical account on the US/CIA's intervention in the affairs of another nation.
"Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, urges us to reconsider the Alamo, a symbol we've been taught to fiercely and uncritically remember . . . the book provides strong, provocative critiques of U.S. imperialism and colonialism."
"The myth of the Alamo, as we know it, is a lie. It's been a part of the lie students have learned in school, and animates the lies peddled by legislation like the 1836 Project and the critical race theory bill. But if you want to truly remember the past, you first have to forget it." -- Texas Observer
We literally have committed more genocide and industrialized murder in the 20th century than anyone else in the world previously.
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
This person seems more interested in insulting you than having a conversation, but these sentiments don't come from nowhere. I'd encourage you to familiarize yourself with the history of the agency if you are seriously interested in it.
There's a new book out called The Jakarta Method that details some of the CIA's activities during the Cold War that I'd recommend. It's hard to get more recent histories due to document classification, but it will give you a perspective that will help explain why people feel so strongly about this issue.
I never actually read it in full, but I got like 20 pages from this book as an assignment on University while studying international relations, and I can recommend it
https://www.amazon.com/Massacre-at-El-Mozote/dp/067975525X
In my case, I really dont want to recommend others as my area of study is more towards the macro level economic management of geopolitics than sponsored terrorism, and I know other people here in the sub can give far better recommendations, that said here you can check out a report done by Human Rights Watch that covers the entire situation including government policy quite well
https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/pdfs/e/elsalvdr/elsalv923.pdf
Are wildly spun up Fox Newsers what counts for "under fire"? The Fox Newsers are spun up over evolution so getting even more spun up over US history.
We can still celebrate and build on the American dream and US's founding as one of the greatest things to happen from the Age of Enlightenment and be truthful about it. We did expand democracy. We did ban slavery. We did pass Civil Rights and Voting rights bills. We did the moon landing and Curiosity. We also did some bad stuff so have to know about it, talk about it.
Forget the Alamo is the current historical star.
Don't read this
Or anything else about the history of Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia.
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The CIA never murdered leftists...
This one was so un-romanticized republicans sicced their purge culture on it. It's a surprisingly accurate while light-handed and fun read.
https://www.amazon.com/Forget-Alamo-Rise-Fall-American/dp/1984880098
Hm, the Jakarta method, rhe example I gave is awesome. he blends personal accounts with the history of the CIAs strategy of violent meddling specifically in Indonesia with US strategy globally like in a way that reads like good, very sad literature
There are some very serious authors that have tackled this topic, I would check out Anabel Hernandez and her work on the history of Mexican cartels and their relationship with Mexican business and politics. https://www.amazon.com/Narcoland-Mexican-Lords-Their-Godfathers/dp/1781682968
There is a TON of shows/movies about Mexican cartels, almost all very divorced from reality and just there to glorify the cartel leaders and/or henchmen, mass media loves that. I avoid them.
One decent documentary I found was Cartel Land on Netflix that covered a specific point in time in a region of Mexico.
Just to clarify, cartels don't "control Mexico". There are some parts of the rural countryside in a handful of States that they effectively control. And even there, when the military/marines drop in they scatter like rats. Problem is, they always come back, the business is too good to disappear. Very sad really.
The current troubles Mexico has with Cartel violence started in 2006 when the federal government started a poorly named and planned "War on Narcos". The homicide rate more than tripled in the next 6 years and has steadily gone up every year since then. Btw, most of the architects of that war are in jail in the US awaiting trial for, you guessed it, working for the cartels.
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
I would also recommend anyone looking for a more detailed source material read The Jakarta Method (written by the author of that article). It's sources are quite detailed and extensive, and include how this methodology influenced CIA operations in numerous other countries.
have you heard of the cold war? backing horrible rightwing groups was US foreign policy for decades.
Feel free to browse the first hand and contemporary sources cited in the book:
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth https://www.amazon.com/dp/1984880098/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_glt_i_MTYZJAWG2V5KC5WR6GY1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
Oh no... Turns out White and Jews can be terrorists too :( this might be the biggest reveal the brainwashed west has to go through.
Definitely put there intentionally, I’ve seen it on a couple Suwannee arrowheads and on one of arrowheads on the cover of this book The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/1440248680/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_W89S74FAAHV3TP2FMCYA but I assume it was put there for the wood part of the arrow to get a snugger hold on the point
Again, America is worse on every front, all it takes really is *an* attempt at an unbiased appraisal of world history and you'll see as much.
https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommunist-Crusade/dp/1541742400
The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide (Official Overstreet Indian Arrowhead Identification and Price Guide) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1440248680/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_g_ETGRG4M8REB97TZ6DY88
You can't go wrong purchasing this book.
Iran, Afghanistan, Irak(2x), Yemen, Libyen, Indonesien, wahrscheinlich hab ich noch welche vergessen.
Empfehle zu dem Thema:
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World https://www.amazon.de/dp/1541724003/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_i_7YX87Q3BDV9YYSGBY3VD
Saw in another, someone is recommending this book.
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1541724003/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_GBYKVTNKJA289D9P16RH
yes, the rounding is called grooved. but write up everything you know about your dad and maybe where he found them and put in the frame so one day your grandchildren will have an idea about them. also, check out Overstreet Arrowhead guide book, it will give you type names and date ranges. its a great book https://www.amazon.com/Official-Overstreet-Arrowheads-Identification-Arrowhead/dp/1440248680
To complement the sugggestions by my teammate Epyon, the most recent well researched book is the Fifth Sun by historian Townsend. This is the sweet spot between accessibility and depth. https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Sun-New-History-Aztecs/dp/0190673060/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
I assume you know all the death and suffering is responsible for in Indonesia ? I suggest you read this misterrrrr
Manufacturing Consent is great for conveying the kind of compounding self-selection of state and media apparatus. It's useful to have a conception of problems as systemic and reoccurring, and not just the result of bad actors.
Oh, The Jakarta Method also seems like a very good text. I haven't read it yet, but by all accounts it's a great overview of the disgusting anti-communist networks that were nourished by the US following WW2, and of the repeated mass murder that was used to enforce the impoverishment of the global south.
Have you heard of the Cold War? There was a global assault on anything resembling the left. Have you heard of the Indonesian genocide, facilitated and coordinated by the US and UK? Have you heard of the death squads in El Salvador and Nicaragua exterminated entire villages and bayoneting babies? Have you heard of Gladio? Have you heard of the Vietnam War? Laos? Cambodia? Tens of millions killed in SE Asia alone.
The only communist regimes that survived were the ones that were authoritarian, because they were all under constant assault by global capital. If they were democratically elected, they were assassinated or overthrown in a coup. Even non-communists weren't spared. Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Iran, Congo, Greece, Italy, the list is endless. All because of the big bad Russian boogeyman. Things haven't changed much.
To put it briefly: Allende died, Castro survived.
Read The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins to get a better idea of what the "democratic" countries did to secure their power.