I first started to really understand the truth about American Empire from Paul Farmer in Haiti. Then reading William Blum in Killing Hope. Then watching our government start two imperialistic wars at the same time and suck my children in. This history goes back to the beginning and builds the foundation under all of that. Thank you!

The thing that breaks my heart is that I knew about the genocide of native people’s, I knew about slavery and Dred Scott, Admiral Perry in Japan, Jim Crow and Emmett Till, etc., etc., and still I somehow swallowed the nationalist narrative of America as the great defender of liberty and justice for all, swore an oath and served the Empire. I am now working to understand the psychology of my blindness to what was always right in front of me and how to be effective in helping others escape the cult. Again, thank you for all you are doing!