Liberals to unveil plans for UN peacekeeping force

Jinentonix

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You require years of deprogramming.
He's not entirely wrong. Iran is/was a prime example of what he's talking about. Previous to the Shah being installed by the US, Iran held a free and fair election. Their choice was someone who wanted to nationalize Iran's oil fields. This didn't sit well with the US (or Britain) so the US deposed the democratically elected leader and installed their own puppet.
This is something that the US has repeated in several countries since WW2. The US is a country that yaps on about the right to self-determination. However they only believe in it as long as that self-determination is in America's best interest.
And let's face it, most of the mess in the Middle East can be blamed squarely on American Middle East policy, which basically went along the lines of, "It ain't their oil, they're just closer to it."
 

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A Brief History of U.S. Interventions:
US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II. 1945 to the Present ( this article is to 1999 )
U.S. Interventions - 1945 to the Present William Blum

Canada is only invited so the banktards can put a schmeer of integrity which Canada earned for itself during ww 2

OIL MAN Hiel Harper blew that like a 25 cent hoe on army payday

Hope you have a comfortable scroll button
a more recent list:
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?

A: Because there’s no American embassy there.
 

pgs

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He's not entirely wrong. Iran is/was a prime example of what he's talking about. Previous to the Shah being installed by the US, Iran held a free and fair election. Their choice was someone who wanted to nationalize Iran's oil fields. This didn't sit well with the US (or Britain) so the US deposed the democratically elected leader and installed their own puppet.
This is something that the US has repeated in several countries since WW2. The US is a country that yaps on about the right to self-determination. However they only believe in it as long as that self-determination is in America's best interest.
And let's face it, most of the mess in the Middle East can be blamed squarely on American Middle East policy, which basically went along the lines of, "It ain't their oil, they're just closer to it."
Maybe try and go back further , maybe to the Balfour decision , and you could go back even further all the way to the birth of Islam .