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the united states has always had a variety of tools to use and its attacks on other countries. economic sanctions are are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries a talking about. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country particularly in our own caress and in the press of that leader's own country. americans love to think there were intervening in other countries to overthrow evil people and if that's true you have to make the person look evil. in nineteen fifty one ottomans came to power in guatemala to being a looked at by the people in washington the u.s. president received the usual courtesies of us visit. years
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ago i wrote a book about how the united states overthrew the government of quantum allah in nineteen fifty four. the case of guatemala is a great example of american call for action during the period of the one nine hundred fifty s. when covert action was at a peak. the country lost its legitimate government and hundreds of people lost their lives. little. rose when you see
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a plea you decided as you say she will do was. done. in the lead and i don't them on a bullock in the car in the abbey on and you know you know many of them never even . but i mean for one bill real good may use a lot to do that done. at this time a giant american company the united fruit company owned by huge amounts of lending water amala. and much of that land they were not using was just being held vacant while many guatemalans are starving because they didn't have the land to grow food. enough. down enough and in order
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that i. should. no. no one month and i didn't. get those little of the requests. i don't know what to get. yeah of all of them to come as you know but going to get them. now in atlanta. and it's going up and. so president arbenz on the guatemalan government decreed a land reform program this land reform program would have forced the united fruit company to sell its own used land so it could be divided up and given to poor families the united fruit company was very unhappy with this they went to the united states government the u.s.
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government then concluded that these socialist orientation of guatemala was dangerous to the united states. gave. them and turned her head to go. up dramatically apart become in. her purse you can you can we want to put your foot over your own go to you because we're not. going to come in something with them again and i get a one month. later civil war broke out something like two hundred thousand people were killed in that conflict over more than thirty years.
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a never him out of. research. one. axis to the other with the words used to our people i will spoil the story for the voice of the. so the first one is. that. the government that we don't like shows bad faith by bothering an american company . then we convince ourselves that that company is our geo political enemy. and we sell the intervention. as a humanitarian intervention we only do it to help them we don't do anything for ourselves in fact we sacrifice ourselves. for the good of others.
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as in that c.f.c.'s was a saudi when i knew not the could be and had then walked and if it had that much time i don't really. have. and now he attained that yes difficult. as a man a see a see. them as at all off. medina because he will from the innocent will be no american will come in and look on at the men and the house and at the husband then he. would move me assets to the bank and be in the middle of the field both had to do it but that the way well many of them just show up on the lead be.
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live. we thought of him as a bad leader one we couldn't control now he looked like he might be about to carry out all human rights atrocity so we decided it was time to participate or not perish and to overthrow gadhafi and eleven operation of course he was killed. so we succeeded in the short term goal get rid of gadhafi deposed that government but then what happened we didn't have a plan for what was going to come next we thought that maybe by magic some new peaceful regime would urge everybody would cooperate with things together.
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you somebody can a. filipino comes last can tell but if that was an ansel ask. you could not for coffee my love them and for the hut or commanding. the not in my life i do nothing was that i do any of. them. was there not to be met seen and then obama. i'm the one of them and for johnny not out of their own feet off any special deal for me our boss calls kind of. a national body and a vision. i'm just an unaccompanied younger with the a. last .
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name in the common to. have some because he has a business that i hold up on the floor of. the facilities wrote a famous history of the peloponnesian wars where he observes as. the war or the conflict does not usually break out with the bigger the smaller country pushing up and pushing up and finally attacking that's not what happens it's usually the bigger country that gets worried and then attacks and you can see this pattern through history they call it sometimes the. trap and it's
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dangerous for the future because we united states is a power that's been used to being on the top and is now being challenged now you know out of. the. media what can be the mubarak got to be had but nobody and yet. ask any. problems but that a lot of the measures that he has. a lot of believe be too free he said then.
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world because without us there will be chaos. and my name is dr king hussein and i am a white political scientist. in one thousand nine hundred three my country was invaded by the united states and we've been under an illegal and prolonged occupation ever since i dedicated my life to not only finding out why the united states invaded my country but also how to bring the occupation to an end. all why it was a long term american project it began with religious missionaries they left from boston in the eighteen twenty six to go to hawaii and live there to spend the rest
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of their lives civilizing the poor savages and barbarians as we saw who lived in hawaii. this is the only policy on the back row. this was the executive monarchs building. hawaii by eighty ninety three was already a constitutional monarchy so it had three separate branches of government big. second if which is here legislative and judicial which is across the street. the leader of these white awad actually came to washington to win
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permission from the president of the united states to overthrow the government of the kingdom of why he received that permission he went home he organized a coup in which the hawaiian kingdom was overthrown american marines were quickly landed just secured the new white government and a few years later a white became part of the united states. so this is the place that u.s. marines landed this road here is where they marched from honolulu harbor and they occupied this location right here when they invaded my country the honking the. so we're at right now this is where camp smith this is headquarters for the pacific command and it overlooks pearl harbor and pro harbor is a naval base for the united states so it falls under the command structure of the
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pacific command. and why it was taken by the united states were invaded in order for the united states to control pearl harbor because of hawaii's location its central central in the central pacific so there's a central location that ships. could enter point ports after disarming refurbish the following ports rearm and go back fighting. the middle middle world who are busy asian or in peace of mind might be greedy so it was by this very belief that they were present all the things it was how do you feel you should be d.c.
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nine eleven and nine third's to what we see rising up out of that because the people who are the least. bit monsters that are asked to read. documents of an existing. document he should basically say to write this book you are worthy to know the whole truth and you see so it's all still on the ground piracy from the newspapers that received the letter. the wave developed an unusual. view of the world because of our location we have huge oceans and a couple of weak neighbors in mexico and canada therefore we've never had to have a foreign policy of clear cooperation with others we've been able because of our power to impose our will on others.
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won't we here. on a charter school. by school level there we're going to be visiting. the share with you folks who are a local one going to turn it over to you and your class so. anything for you feel like we already know oh i was just standing national was this nation state and for fifty years we celebrated thinking only through what we know that. or united states of america illegally overthrew him with what he now hold is the united states maintain that power despite having no mule of already wrong that's living here military history when i said military the threat of force violent sprouse weapons what you how else are they maintaining power in vikki climbed on
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the world over population we just talked about how many guests pendejo two hours and in traffic we're all americans are waiting to hear was. but there's. we are the evidence. that the nationalisation where the evidence of the war crime we're not the war crimes ourselves. already is an independent country all that was overthrown in eighty ninety three was our government by the united states not our country so our country is still an independent state but we're not a control of our independence we're occupying.
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this book overthrow is in attempt to show the times that america overthrew foreign governments over a long period. the united states at least in a relative sense is declining in power in the world and we can still remain and i believe will still remain a potent dominant force in the world but we need to accept that the conditions of the past decades don't exist anymore and we're not used to this we're not ready for this psychologically americans have always been on top we think of ourselves as always getting our way and we're entering into a period when that's not going to be so easy the challenge is can we adapt our
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habits of dominance to a more equal multi-polar or. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars times happy each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent last
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year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only boom by.
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looking at the latest official so further. someone could see the effect. with friends like that who needs enemies he attends on donald trump accusing the u.s. leader of not paying much of a friend to pulling out of the iran nuclear deal but. israel is an occupier and it keeps terrorizing the turkish president denounces the israeli military deadly response to the palace to. in protest as deep anger at israel in the united states mass protests across the arab world meantime marty hears from doctors on the ground there in gaza who say their wards are overflowing and medical supplies are running out. and this high level condemnation tonight against ukraine of rick.
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