The primary SOURCE for this post was the book 'Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire' by Jonathan M. Katz
#TheStrenuousLife
#PhilippineAmericanWar
ugly #AmericanImperialism
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On Luzon, Brigadier General J. Franklin “Bell ordered civilians to be rounded up into ‘zones of protection.’” Fancy language to say, ‘concentration camp or ‘reconcentrado pen,’ as they were called then.
#TheStrenuousLife
#PhilippineAmericanWar
#AmericanImperialism bullshit
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#OTD in #History 1899
April 10: Racist Roosevelt Delivered His, #TheStrenuousLife
Context: Before being elected President, Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech at Chicago’s all male Hamilton Club, abt the #SpanishAmericanWar & the occupations of #Cuba & the Philippine Islands.
ugly #AmericanHistory
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The primary SOURCE for this post was the book 'Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire' by Jonathan M. Katz
#TheStrenuousLife
#PhilippineAmericanWar
ugly #AmericanImperialism
7/7
On Luzon, Brigadier General J. Franklin “Bell ordered civilians to be rounded up into ‘zones of protection.’” Fancy language to say, ‘concentration camp or ‘reconcentrado pen,’ as they were called then.
#TheStrenuousLife
#PhilippineAmericanWar
#AmericanImperialism bullshit
4/7
#OTD in #History 1899
April 10: Racist Roosevelt Delivered His, #TheStrenuousLife
Context: Before being elected President, Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech at Chicago’s all male Hamilton Club, abt the #SpanishAmericanWar & the occupations of #Cuba & the Philippine Islands.
ugly #AmericanHistory
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