A Brief History of U.S. Interventions:
1945 to the Present
by William Blum
Z magazine , June 1999
https://thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/US_Interventions_WBlumZ.html
The engine of American foreign policy has been fueled not by a devotion to any kind of morality, but rather by the necessity to serve other imperatives, which can be summarized as follows:
* making the world safe for American corporations;
* enhancing the financial statements of defense contractors at home who have contributed generously to members of congress;
* preventing the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model;
* extending political and economic hegemony over as wide an area as possible, as befits a "great power."
This in the name of fighting a supposed moral crusade against what cold warriors convinced themselves, and the American people, was the existence of an evil International Communist Conspiracy, which in fact never existed, evil or not.
The United States carried out extremely serious interventions into more than 70 nations in this period.
~much more at link
The remaining article is a list of US interference in other countries' elections & governments from 1945-1999. Blum died in 2018 but his books received renewed interest when Osama Bin Laden said all Americans should read him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/obituaries/william-blum-dead.html
In an interview with The Washington Post in 2006, Mr. Blum encapsulated his life’s mission as “ending, at least slowing down, the American Empire,” or “at least injuring the beast.”
Still, no one was more surprised than he when a recording emerged in 2006 on which
Osama bin Laden recommended that all Americans read Mr. Blum’s book “Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower,” first published in 2000 and updated in 2005.
It vaulted almost overnight from about 205,000 on Amazon’s sales ranking to the top 50. (It stood at about 58,000 a few days after Mr. Blum’s death.)
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