Rainer Shea
Rainer uses the written word to deconstruct establishment propaganda and to promote meaningful political action. His articles can also be found at Revolution Dispatch
Latest posts by Rainer Shea (see all)
- To Adapt to the Escalating Climate Crisis, Mere Reform Will Not Be Enough - October 15, 2019
- Iran, Hong Kong, and the Desperation of a Declining U.S. Empire - October 2, 2019
- It Just So Happens That Every Single Country the U.S. Doesn’t Like is a “Dictatorship” - September 19, 2019
In his 2004 book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins frames the story of the American empire as a kind of grand tragedy, one where human folly results in a vast, multi-generational saga of pain and suffering. He describes how the largest empire in history has been primarily constructed not through military conquest, but through assimilating vulnerable countries into the U.S. empire’s network of corporate enterprise. During the post-World War II period of…
