How We Robbed Mexico in 1848

The author contends that the Mexican–American War was an unjust, expansionist campaign driven by pro-slavery and financial interests, describing how a disputed border was used to provoke invasion and extract vast territorial concessions. He cites contemporary testimony, including Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs, to criticize the war's motives and consequences, and traces a pattern of later interventions in Central America and the Caribbean—financial control, customs-house occupations, and maneuvers around the Panama Canal—as continuations of economic coercion and imperial aggrandizement.