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review Overthrow America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Ira Free read × PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB í Stephen Kinzer Stephen Kinzer í 6 Download A fast paced narrative history of the coups revolutions and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments not always to its own benefit Regime change did not begin with the administration of George W Bush but has been an integral part of US foreign policy for than one hundred years Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish American War and the Co. Overthrow made me realize how poor my education of US history is and saddly my foreign policy understanding as well I am shocked that I hadn t learned about some of these coups in say my foreign policy to Latin America class in college or any one of my other international relations courses This is an excellent primer for anyone who wants to understand current world events and why they might possibly hate us

review Overthrow America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Ira Free read × PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB í Stephen Kinzer Stephen Kinzer í 6 Download Ld War and into our own time the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals The invasion of Ira in 2003 is the latest though perhaps not the last example of the dangers inherent in these operations In Overthrow Stephen Kinzer tells the stories of the audacious politicians spies military commanders and business executives who took it upon themselves to depose m. 5 star topic especially presenting it to the US mainstream in an accessible manner 2 stars for Kinzer s career of shilling for NYT when courageous journalism is inconvenient The good We have to start somewhere and Kinzer s account of a century of American terrorism on other countries does provide the bare bone names dates and places Themes of American capitalist interests against foreign independence missionary racism and empire geopolitics are introduced The reporter style writing and boilerplate assumptions likely improve readability for beginnersThe bad As other reviewers noted Kinzer is a reporter for the NY Times which has a sad record particularly in foreign policy given the corporate elites who pay its bills via advertising and provides rather limited understanding of political economy leaving space for status uo assumptions to go unchallenged The chapters where he tries to categorize types of interventions and discusses the Why s and Could HaveShould Have s are varied in shallowness and absurdity Example after going through a century of interventions that could just as easily be called terrorism Kinzer still assumes that American ground troops and perhaps even temporary American military government in Afghanistan is the fallback option Zero mention of regionalism regional efforts with actual understanding and responsibility for the area to deal directly with building communities while preventing violence As if the entire world is clueless in desperate need of American democracy bombs The ugly Kinzer s career of shilling at NYT for the American military industrial complex on current thus urgent foreign interventions is documented in ChomskyHerman s classic Manufacturing Consent The Political Economy of the Mass Media Principled foreign policy journalists do not survive at NYT for example Seymour M Hersh and Chris Hedges With any introductory material where you sacrifice uality for the hope of appealing to a wider audience the risk is re enforcing certain status uo assumptions that perpetuate our inability to imagine actual change The bridge is for you to cross not to get stuck on Understanding Power The Indispensable Chomsky is an excellent next step Michael Parenti is next level Vijay Prashad truly stands out especially in humanizing the many lost voices in the global south Many of his lectures are online

Free read × PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB í Stephen Kinzer

review Overthrow America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Ira Free read × PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB í Stephen Kinzer Stephen Kinzer í 6 Download Onarchs presidents and prime ministers He also shows that the US government has often pursued these operations without understanding the countries involved; as a result many of them have had disastrous long term conseuences In a compelling and provocative history that takes readers to fourteen countries including Cuba Iran South Vietnam Chile and Ira Kinzer surveys modern American history from a new and often surprising perspectiv. I was going to read this but ended up skimming it instead Its an interesting topic but this wasn t a very scholarly attempt Its also blatantly partial in some rather naive ways