According to historian Ellen Hammer, he (Pres. Kennedy) was, 'shaken and depressed.' to realize that, 'the first Catholic ever to become a Vietnamese chief of state was dead, assassinated as a direct...
In a ravenous fifty-five-day spasm during the summer of 1898, the United States asserted control over five far-flung lands with a total of 11 million inhabitants: Guam, Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines,...
Most American-sponsored regime change operations have, in the end, weakened rather than strengthened American security.
They led to the fall of leaders who embraced American ideals, and the imposition of others who detested everything Americans hold dear.
Dulles had two lifelong obsessions: fighting Communism and protecting the rights of multinational corporations.
The central reason that Bush rejected the ambitious option of long-term engagement in Afghanistan, however, was that his attention was focused elsewhere. He understood the importance of stabilizing Af...
Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
We used to be the fucker, one of Anaconda’s lawyers lamented. Now we’re the fuckee.
Acheson immediately understood the urgency of this message. He summoned Ambassador Franks and told him that the United States resolutely opposed the use of force or the threat of the use of force agai...
That strengthened the planters’ opposition to democracy, since universal suffrage would most likely have produced a government dominated by nonwhites.
President Kennedy does not announce a clear decision, but the group proceeds as if the United States does support the coup.
Oscar-winning triumph. The New York Times called it a disturbing revelation of the savagery that prevailed in the hearts of the old gun-fighters, who were simply legal killers under the frontier code....
The day’s most vivid exchanges were about a delicate but serious matter: the extreme foreignness of native Hawaiians. Both sides used racial arguments. Annexationists said the islanders’ evident savag...
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...
Life is not shaped by what happens to you but by how you react to what happens to you.
Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.
Nationalists reflexively rebel against governments they perceive as lackeys of foreign power. In the twentieth century, many of these rebels were men and women inspired by American history, American p...
As Allende was trying to withstand the American campaign, he also faced intense pressure from groups of workers and peasants whose revolutionary passion he had helped to awaken.
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.
One of the most immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of empires and great nations. Some Americans, however, believe their country to be so far beyond comparison with any other country or...
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