Regarding Trump and the Panama Canal: perhaps this is the appropriate time to refresh readers on how the U.S. obtained the Canal and the territory surrounding it.
In one of his best examples of power elite analysis, Murray N. Rothbard, provides the unsavory details of this imperialistic land grab for the benefit of the Wall Street elite dominating the American state at the time. Some of the same nefarious firms are still in the saddle directing the leviathan today as senior partners of the deep state.
The Treaty That Wall Street Wrote, by Murray N. Rothbard
https://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/the-treaty-that-wall-street-wrote/
Viewpoint: The Panama Canal Caper, by Murray N. Rothbard
https://reason.com/1976/07/01/viewpoint-the-panama-canal-cap/
The Untold Story of Panama — Book by Earl Harding
Definitive investigative account naming names of the culprits involved in this infamous Wall Street scam of obtaining the land on which to build the Panama Canal.
Well worth reading this online edition of the 1959 hardback book.
https://ia804706.us.archive.org/2/items/untoldstoryofpan012635mbp/untoldstoryofpan012635mbp.pdf
I have an autographed copy of this rare volume.
For a fine modern day re-telling of the tale, “of the financial speculation, fraud, and international conspiracy that led to the building of the Panama Canal,” check out Ovidio Diaz Espino, How Wall Street Created A Nation: J. P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal.
To place this nefarious scheme in historical context, see Murray N. Rothbard’s seminal Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy:
There is an excellent chapter on the U.S. and how it obtained the Panama Canal in Ferdinand Lundberg’s America’s 60 Families:
