What are you currently reading?

[El Dorado]

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

This book exposes how the U.S. has historically exploited developing nations through strategic loans.

It's a interesting and easy read, just watch out for the 2023 revised edition of this book - it’s got an anti-Russia/Putin bias that sours the taste a bit.

Seven months later...have you read Perkins' sequel The Secret History of the American Empire?

 

[GoodShepherd]

 

[El Dorado]

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Nice! That's something I've always wanted to research: Portugal's overseas empire...particularly the East Indies and Africa.

I'd also like to find any good English-language history books on the Russian Far East...especially the Cossack exploration and conquest of Siberia and the Russian fur trade. Anybody have any recommendations?