Woohoo! Everything old is new again! #BananaWars
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"The #BananaWars were a series of conflicts that consisted of military occupation, police action, and intervention by the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbour policy in 1934."
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#jfk #cocaine #bananawars
I say with the advantage of 23 years of researching the sh*t out of this: creating Laws creates crime syndicates, who are incentivized to control law enforcement to evade prosecution.
Think about them as an "unprosecuted crime syndicate": it makes sense pretty quickly.
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I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents. Major General Smedley Butler, who died the most decorated US Marine in American history, in a speech given in 1933
History doesn't repeat, it rhymes. @atrupar.com @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app @marisakabas.bsky.social #venezuela #bananawars
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#OTD (Sep 18) in 1969, #Bonanno Crime Family bigshot Frank #Mari disappears along with his aide Mike Adamo and is presumed to be a casualty of the ongoing #BananaWars.
#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians #NYC
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The fate of Sector 7 rested on my shoulders. A single, slightly bruised banana needed retrieval from the employee breakroom. My superiors demanded absolute secrecy. The tension was palpable. #Gaming #MissionCritical #BananaWars
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Every Marine learns about these wars in basic, but totally without historical context # Marines #USMC #history #thegreatwar #bananawars #colonialism https://youtu.be/sZUQsWexXT8
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Every Marine learns about these wars in basic, but totally without historical context # Marines #USMC #history #thegreatwar #bananawars #colonialism https://youtu.be/sZUQsWexXT8
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Nobody has explained to York U’s old #hashdealer what happens when #WallSt & the #Pentagon don’t get their #banana, #petroleum or #cocaine pipeline at full throttle…
#imperialism, #BananaWars
#DrugCartel, #WHINSEC #SchoolOfTheAmericas
#Iraq, #Libya, #Nicaragua
#Panama, #IranContra #hydroelectricity
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You’re only allowed to exact violence on CEOs and citizens if you’re the government or a corporation backed by the government. #bananawars #unitedfruitcompany
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