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Published on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 by Grit TV
Fordlandia & US Imperialism
Fordlandia: Greg Grandin on What Henry Ford’s Jungle City Can Tell Us About US Imperialism
Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, takes a fresh look at how American hubris and imperial ambitions led to the establishment of an outpost of the auto industry in the Brazilian rainforest. Ford, in many ways an embodiment of the contradictions of American capitalism (The Wall Street Journal once called him a "class trader") tried to institute what Grandin calls a Ponzi scheme of high ideals in the Amazonian jungle. What was he after and what does it tell us about US empire in the 21st century? Grandin also discusses the military coup in Honduras and Alvaro Uribe’s visit to Washington.
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Show AllRe American Imperialism bringing about Hitler power and W.W.II:
notable support for Hitler’s early on scapegoating of Germany’s Jewish citizens came from various American tycoons. Henry Ford, a backer of the very beginning of Hitler’s political party, published The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem in 1920 - in 1924, volume 4, Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States.
Millions of copies were ordered and distributed by the Nazis and became required reading for the Nazi Youth, translated into German as Der internationale Jude, Henry Ford, Hammer Verlag/Leipszig.
At the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Baldur von Schirach mentioned The International Jew made a deep impression on him and his friends in their youth and influenced them in becoming anti-semitic and said, “ we saw in Henry Ford the representative of success, also the exponent of a progressive social policy. In the poverty-stricken and wretched Germany of the time, youth looked toward America, and apart from the great benefactor Herbert Hoover, it was Henry Ford who to us represented America.” [Wikipedia]
Excerpted from
Buchenwald, D-Day, Communists, Hitler's Backers, Capitalism and Media ,June 9, 2009
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Buchenwald-D-Day-Communi-by-Jay-Janson-090607-898.html
When one culture stops imposing upon another, that day we shall know peace.