DoomsdaysCWOct 12, 2023

[Thread] 10 Times America Helped Overthrow a Foreign Government

The #US has long facilitated #RegimeChange to support its own #strategic and #business interests.

By: Becky Little
Published: June 7, 2022

"Throughout its history, the United States has used its military and covert operations to overthrow or prop up foreign governments in the name of preserving U.S. strategic and business interests.

"U.S. intervention in foreign governments began with attacks on and displacement of #sovereign #TribalNations in North America. In the 1890s, this type of imperialist activity, fueled by the idea of #ManifestDestiny, expanded overseas when the U.S. overthrew the #HawaiianKingdom and annexed its islands. As America annexed more overseas territories for its empire, it began to intervene frequently in other countries’ governments—particularly those in its backyard.

"'During the early 20th century, the United States intervened relentlessly in the #CaribbeanBasin,' says Stephen Kinzer, a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from #Hawaii to #Iraq.

"After World War II, the United States began using the newly established Central Intelligence Agency [#CIA] to overthrow governments all over the world in a more covert manner. U.S. leaders rationalized many of these interventions as necessary for preventing the spread of communism according to the Cold War domino theory. Similarly, 21st-century leaders would later defend U.S. #MiddleEast interventions as necessary for fighting terrorism."

https://www.history.com/news/us-overthrow-foreign-governments

#HumanRights #CIA #Covert #Corporatism #Corporatocracy #Corruption #Capitalism #Colonialism

10 Times America Helped Overthrow a Foreign Government

The US has long facilitated regime change to support its own strategic and business interests.

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1933: Cuba

"In 1898, the same year the U.S. annexed Hawaii, its victory in the Spanish-American War also gave it control of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines as U.S. territories, as well as an excuse to begin a military occupation of Cuba. After President Theodore Roosevelt asserted America's right to intervene militarily in Latin America in 1904-5, the U.S. began to do so more frequently in the #CaribbeanBasin countries, including the #DominicanRepublic, #Nicaragua, #Mexico, #Haiti, #Honduras—and Cuba.

"After recognizing Cuba as an independent nation in 1902, the U.S. withdrew its military from the country with the caveat that it would still intervene militarily to protect American interests in the future. Over the next three decades, the U.S. frequently invaded Cuba and other Caribbean countries in the so-called “#BananaWars,” to help quash #abor strikes and revolutions that threatened U.S.-owned sugar, fruit and coffee businesses.

"In 1933, it backed military leader Fulgencio Batista’s coup to overthrow the Cuban government. After Fidel Castro violently ousted Batista and established the Western hemisphere’s first communist regime, President John F. Kennedy attempted to overthrow Castro’s government in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. This failed coup not only represented America’s ongoing #imperialist attitude toward its southern neighbors; it also showcased a newer interventionist arm: the #CIA."

https://www.history.com/news/us-overthrow-foreign-governments

#HumanRights
#Covert
#Corporatism
#Corporatocracy
#Corruption
#Capitalism
#Colonialism

10 Times America Helped Overthrow a Foreign Government

The US has long facilitated regime change to support its own strategic and business interests.

HISTORY
Oct 12, 2023 at 4:29pmWeb