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Lets make a running list of the times the US govt overthrew other govts

Posted on 10/27/22 at 3:17 pm
Posted by FlexDawg
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 3:17 pm
I’ll start:

On June 27, 1954, democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was deposed in a CIA-sponsored coup to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company. Arbenz was replaced by decades of brutal U.S.-backed regimes who committed widespread torture and genocide. LINK


Posted by goofball
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 3:18 pm to
Confederate States of America
Posted by Godfather1
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 3:20 pm to
Iran, 1953.
Posted by thotpocket
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 3:22 pm to
The United States of America on November 3rd, 2020.
Posted by BigMob
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 3:22 pm to
November 3rd, 2020
Posted by the808bass
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 3:22 pm to
Bordaberry won a likely fraudulent election in 1971 in Uruguay, backed by the CIA.

Full-on coup in 1973.
Posted by The Maj
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 3:23 pm to
You need to include attempted as well….

Surprised “Ukraine” hasn’t made the list yet…
Posted by Screaming Viking
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 3:27 pm to
quote:

Lets make a running list of the times the US govt overthrew other govts


Posted by doubleb
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 4:04 pm to
1776
Posted by doubleb
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 4:06 pm to
Then we can start a list where the government was overthrown and the ruler and his entire family was murdered.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 4:08 pm to
Queen of Hawaii in the 19th century

Allende in Chile

Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 4:11 pm to
Cuba 1898
Posted by Nosevens
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 7:33 pm to
Do we also include ours?
Posted by shutterspeed
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 7:55 pm to
Successfully or attempted/influenced as well? This could get really lengthy.
Posted by Toomer Deplorable
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 8:07 pm to
Zelensky should be nervous. Very nervous. He means nothing — NOTHING — to the wholly corrupted entities that are using Zelensky like a pawn.

This post was edited on 10/27/22 at 8:12 pm
Posted by trinidadtiger
Member since Jun 2017
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 8:08 pm to
Do inventing countries count? Roosevelt invented Panama when Columbia would not let us build the canal.

George Clooney and Obama invented South Sudan.

Conventional CIA methods, I see Libya isnt mentioned yet.
Posted by TrueTiger
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 8:16 pm to

The Shogun of Japan in the 1850s.
Posted by SCLibertarian
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 8:51 pm to
Indonesia in the 1960's. The dictatorship we supported killed hundreds of thousands of peopld and then oversaw genocide in East Timor.
Posted by jackamo3300
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Posted on 10/27/22 at 9:43 pm to
A very barebones article that just happens to leave out a side story that went along with this "coup" which had more serious implications for this nation than just a C.I.A. led coup of a Central American nation.

Nothing in the article even hints at the CIA's use of Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, as their project propagandist for the coup, and how highly regarded he was in his chosen craft. He used United Fruit as his base of operations and main tool for the coup.

But how this guy over all these years has been able to remain just below the surface, and free of in-depth inquiries and hour-long programs on t.v. into what he was all about.

Not mentioned by academics, other than in possibly marketing classes, Bernays is the one who changed the name propaganda to marketing for his own reasons, expedience.

His book Engineering Consent is a chronicle of the success he and the CIA had in Guatemala.

Over the years, the book has been used as a blueprint for regime change.

But it didn't stop there with him.

He went on to establish himself as the most effective propagandist/marketer ever.

Even Goebbels proudly admitted to having his books on his shelf.

The most devastating of Bernays's skillful manipulations was his sentencing of generations of women to suffer chronic COPD and to the nation's pulmonary wards.

He played on women's natural vanity by associating smoking with actors/actresses on the screen and in slick commercials on t.v., even on billboards across the nation.

Even to portray them as public signs of women's independence.
He referred to cigarettes as their "torches of freedom."

Yet he forbade his own wife from smoking in their home.

BTW, who recalls any mention of the '54 CIA-led Guatemalan coup in the classrooms of any propaganda mills.

You'd think that such an event would merit some mention in either International Relations, Comparative Government, Military History, even Psychology when considering what was done down there.

There was a "rest of the story" on this one considering who was involved in it.









Posted by TBoy
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Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 10/28/22 at 3:30 am to
quote:

Lets make a running list of the times the US govt overthrew other govts

Don’t forget the annexation part. When was the last time annexed their population.

And so now we should support Russia?
This post was edited on 10/28/22 at 3:32 am
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