Started: 4/6/2020
Completed: 4/8/2020
Recommendation: Must Read
Recommended By: The New Republic
Review:
It turns out that the stunning and horrible turn-abouts happening around us (from Katrina recovery to Iraq) are happening for a reason. Blackwater isn't just an opportunist, it is part of a concerted effort. "Free market" Republicans are pulling from Milton Friedman's economic theories. These were taught in Chicago and his adherents are often referred to as "Chicago Boys." These economic theories have NOT worked out anywhere they have been tried and in order to put them in place, people die (no exaggeration--remember Pinochet in Chile? This article talks about all the details as it was happening in 1976).
The book describes a variety of different actual tortures. It is very, very hard to read about that. You have been warned.
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