General Federico Tinoco,
We used to be the fucker, one of Anaconda’s lawyers lamented. Now we’re the fuckee.
Until this episode, many Americans had believed that their soldiers were different from others, operating on a higher moral plane because their cause was good.
There was no response. Soon afterward, a skiff flying the Spanish flag approached the Charleston. Two Spanish officers came aboard and apologized for not having returned the American salute because th...
To all of this the CIA agreed. It subcontracted to Pakistan the job of directing the Afghan rebellion.
The idea of using the Roman Catholic clergy to turn Guatemalans against Arbenz. Catholic priests and bishops in Guatemala, as in other Latin American countries, were closely aligned with the ruling cl...
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.
Bernays was one of the first masters of modern mass psychology. He liked to describe himself as the father of public relations, and no one disagreed. His specialty was what he called the conscious and...
Whatever doubts the Americans had about the wisdom of embracing Zia were overwhelmed by their determination to intensify the rebellion in Afghanistan.
To kill weeds, you must pull them up at the roots,
From the vantage point of history, however, it is clear that most of these operations actually weakened American security. They cast whole regions of the world into upheaval, creating whirlpools of in...
The emergence of markets abroad put Americans to work, but it distorted the economies of poor countries in ways that greatly increased their poverty. As American companies accumulated vast sugar and f...
Like many American regime change operations, Operation Ajax seemed like a success at first.
The battle in defense of natural resources.
He was, as the novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair wrote, willing by deliberate and shameful lies, made out of whole cloth, to stir nations to enmity and drive them to murderous war.
The idea of invading Iraq was first urged on him after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, he could not fail to recognize it as a way to have his revenge, complete the job his father had begun,...
They led to the fall of leaders who embraced American ideals, and the imposition of others who detested everything Americans hold dear.
In the mid-1950s Winston Churchill advised his American friends to recognize that Ho Chi Minh was unbeatable, accept his victory, and try to make the best of it. This the Dulles brothers could not do—...
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where...
Was brought into the firm, but his network of global contacts quickly paid off. Within the firm he became known as the little minister. Although he often worked in Europe, he also became the firm’s ke...
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