a book about how the united states overthrew the government of guatemala in nineteen fifty four. the case of water 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. in. little little of. those new see if we are all the same as he says she will do as the front. of the independent

and i want them on a bullock in a bomb in the alley on at the ferry yeomen for them every one of them. but only for one bill really didn't know you saw none of them. at this time a giant american company the united fruit company owned a huge amounts of lending lot of moloch. 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. gabbie are not out of the honor of al in the name on. well i don't keep

that i. know. no one month and then it's a way to. 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 at the end of fills us. now in atlanta. and it's going up and. so a president arbenz a league watermelon government decreed a land reform program this land reform program would have forced the united fruit company to sell its own used lens so it could be divided up and given to four families the united fruit company was very unhappy with this they went to the united states government the u.s. government then concluded that the socialist orientation of guatemala was dangerous

to the united states. and it was the. same in three hundred go. up dramatically in part become in. her particular good we want to put the foot over here i won't go to you because we're not. going to come in from the look in the gears and i get a four hundred one. later civil war broke out something like two hundred thousand people were killed in that what over more than thirty here.

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him out of. the circle moisten though those one. still feel they want to steal our people will spoil just good old boys of the they don't mean though. these three. 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 geopolitical enemy. when we sell the intervention. as humanitarian intervention we only do it that we don't do anything for ourselves in fact we sacrifice ourselves. for the good of others.

american involvement in the overthrow of the government of libya the government of all our khadafi was another example then call it a number of impulses in the american interventionist spirit. as. was. one of the not the could be and i will hand and walked and

if it had that much time i don't really. have. and now he attained that yes defeat a fuck up and see a see. them as at all off the medina because he will from the unit sort of will freak. and then walk on that demand and the hostile at the husband then he. would be asked to move back and you'd be. had to do it but that wayne woman of the net as you should be.

we thought of him as a bad leader with. when 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 permission to overthrow khadafi in that operation of course he was killed. so we succeeded in the short term goal get rid of gadhafi and depose 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 rate she would urge everybody would cooperate and things come together.

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of sadhana to because he has a business that i hold up on the floor of. the from the facilities wrote a famous history of the peloponnesian wars when he observes there is. 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 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

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we believe that we are an exceptional nation this is a phrase you hear a lot in the united states we call it american exceptionalism it means that we have a responsibility for the whole world and we need to make rules for the rest of the world because without us there will be chaos.

and my name is dr king hussein and i am a white political scientists. 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've 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 a religious missionary they left from boston in the eighteen twenty s. to go to hawaii and live there to spend the rest 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 bilby. hawaii by eight hundred ninety three was already a constitutional monarchy so it had three separate branches of government. which is here legislative and judicial which is across the street. the leader of these white awad actually came to washington to win 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 to secure 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 hoeing kingdom. so we're at right now this is work 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 what falls under the command structure of the 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. enter ports after disarming refurbish. ports rearm and go back fighting. the middle middle. asian or impede my mighty greedy sort it was by this very delicious they were present all the things it was how do you know you to be d.c. nine eleven and one third so what we see rising up out of that because people are these. monsters that are injury. document and

it's a. document that basically say to write this book you are worthy to know the whole truth and the so it's all still public and piracy from the newspapers that received. the wave developed. an unusual. view of the world because of our location we have huge oceans and a couple of week 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. while we're here. on a charter school. by school level that we're going to be visiting.

and share with you a local. kind of turned 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 ninety three what we know that. oh united states of america illegally overthrew him with what he now hold the of the united states maintain that power despite having no mule already that's really military like you hear what i said military that threat of force violent sprouse weapons what you how else are they maintaining power in vikki. their population we just talked about how many guest fania two hours and in traffic we're all americans are waiting to hear was. it's yours.

we are the evidence. but 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 and 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. this book overthrow is an 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 and we need to accept that the conditions of 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 habits of dominance to a more equal multi-polar or. us

veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already is several generations of them so i just

got this memo from a certain french officer says we're going to attack and destroy the government and in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some just come for war and easiness for peace. i think he has a bigger chance to when election. they have elections people are suffering from many things they're not. secure i think. they get their take that they can help the country or to make it to become secure and stable country so i think he has a big child i think the people they've got

a ninety percent of the people they gonna be happy if the perception is that when the election. or the stand. or fall on one. of our goods that are off the mark. you know what are the four fourth down here that. i'm going to let them but i don't touch and then you can there and keep an eye on what i have to lose a child for truffle that it living. in the modern world and i want my michelle adults a lot of. them but certainly on the hey if i'm not doing.

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