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,...
They led to the fall of leaders who embraced American ideals, and the imposition of others who detested everything Americans hold dear.
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...
Siblings ran the overt and covert arms of foreign policy.
Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.
We used to be the fucker, one of Anaconda’s lawyers lamented. Now we’re the fuckee.
Most American-sponsored regime change operations have, in the end, weakened rather than strengthened American security.
Had we to do it over again, he said in an interview sixteen months after the invasion, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success.
Countries that have the power to interfere in foreign lands almost always do so.
The former colony itself becoming colonialist.
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...
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....
Dulles had two lifelong obsessions: fighting Communism and protecting the rights of multinational corporations.
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...
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.
About 90 percent of the one billion Muslims in the world today identify with the Sunni tradition. Of the remainder, most are Shiites, the largest number of whom are in Iran.
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...