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Greg Grandin

Greg Grandin teaches history at New York University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His most recent book is, "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America." His previous books include, "Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman," "The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World" and "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City," a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history.

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'It Is Not Enough to Simply Oppose US Military Intervention': A Response to WOLA on Venezuela

The Washington Office on Latin America has yet to offer any explanation for why they do not oppose the Trump administration's illegal regime change effort in Venezuela, nor do they recognize the enormous damage that the president and his allies have done and continue to do

Greg Grandin · Apr 13, 2019

An Open Letter to the Washington Office on Latin America About Its Stance on US Effort to Overthrow Venezuelan Government

We believe that the Trump administration’s regime change effort in Venezuela is wrong in every way: morally, legally, and politically.

Greg Grandin · Mar 5, 2019

Families have been tear gassed at the border and children have already died in Border Patrol custody. (Photo: Reuters)

Donald Trump, Pornographer-in-Chief

Bound at the border, or how to make border porn: bread, circuses, and duct tape

Greg Grandin · Mar 5, 2019

An Open Letter to the United States: Stop Interfering in Venezuela's Internal Politics

If the Trump administration and its allies continue to pursue their reckless course in Venezuela, the most likely result will be bloodshed, chaos, and instability.

Noam Chomsky · Jan 24, 2019

This timeline illustrates how some of the most outward-looking presidents, men who insisted that the prosperity of the nation was inseparable from the prosperity of the world, also presided over the erection of a deadly run of border barriers, be they called fences or walls, that would come to separate the United States from Mexico.(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

How Not to Build a “Great, Great Wall”

A timeline of border fortification

Greg Grandin · Jan 14, 2019

How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega’s Panama Super-Charged US Militarism

It brought together neocons and realists in a warm-up act for the first Gulf War.

Greg Grandin · May 30, 2017

Trump Hits His Target: Domestic Critics Who Think He’s Too Close to Putin and Not Interventionist

Six thoughts on the US bombing of Syria

Greg Grandin · Apr 7, 2017

Waging Endless War From Vietnam to Syria

Kissinger, the Bombardier: How diplomacy by air power became an All-American tradition

Greg Grandin · Nov 9, 2015

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