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North had worked for the arms-length, extra-judicial, extra-governmental agency known as the Board for four years. He was going to die young – the bullet guaranteed it. He told them he wanted to do something useful with the time he had left. And they took him at his word.
Judith O'Reilly • Killing State
Enrique Trinidad Oliva.
Mario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)
Pishevar spoke as an insurgent, with none of the grace and sense of obligation of the man who accepts his own arrival. Nor did his bearing suggest any awareness that Uber and Airbnb, of which he loved to speak, now faced serious charges of exploitative and illegal behavior toward people who genuinely lacked power. In Pishevar’s mind, he and those
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
The hypocrisy of this final assignment was a fitting coda to the symphony of sleaze and slaughter that the United States bestowed on Puerto Rico in the name of good government. Winship was walking tall, waving documents, pointing fingers, trying others for their atrocities.
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
Congressman Vito Marcantonio
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
“Officer,” he said, “what if I told you that I’m an American citizen, and that we just came back from the State Department and the White House, where we were asked to speak? And after a day speaking to important people and feeling good about our democracy, now this will be my experience in D.C.? Because that’s what just happened. If Lincoln were
... See moreDave Eggers • The Monk of Mokha
The white man behind it was Elihu Embree, an iron manufacturer and former slave owner who had evolved, at age thirty, into an abolitionist. Elihu mailed his newspapers to Southern politicians, intent on persuading them to end the horrors of slavery.