STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 26 August 2014

[Demeter]

2. Remember the 1ST Weekend in Aug. About the Dulles Bros?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/111655804

Here's a comprehensive discussion one of their crazy adventures: their overthrow of Iran's govt. and the blowback that followed:

August 19, 1953, unhappy anniversary: The CIA coup in Iran—Operation Ajax remembered

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/19/1322859/-August-19-1953-unhappy-anniversary-The-CIA-coup-in-Iran-Operation-Ajax-remembered?detail=email

...It would make a great movie. But a tad different than Argo. (or Charlie Wiolson's War, which was last weekend's bad boy tale)

Straightforward plot. Characters bigger than life. Stunning success against difficult odds after initial failure.

At the behest of two of the most powerful brothers in U.S. history, the aristocratic grandson of a famous president engineers a coup d'etat against a secular, democratically minded reformist leader and replaces him with a pro-Nazi prime minister overseen by a spoiled, craven monarch who proceeds to keep democracy at bay, the oil flowing and the torture chambers full for the next quarter century, after which he is ousted only to be replaced by a theocratic regime. From this flows one of the most devastating example of blowback America has ever felt. Blowback that continues today. Blowback that has contributed to internal wrangling within three U.S. administrations between those who choose not to make war beyond sanctions and assassinations and those who want to go full out.

Unfortunately, all this is not a script being pitched to a Hollywood studio. It is history. Operation Ajax. Planning and control: CIA. Partner: MI-6. Target: Iran. The date: Aug. 19, 1953. Objective: Its oil, its near-Soviet locale and overthrow of its democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadeq, to be replaced by a weak-willed wastrel, the hereditary monarch, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi....

IMMENSE AMOUNT OF DETAIL AT LINK.

IF WE DIDN'T HAVE A CIA, WOULD THE TEMPTATION ABATE, OR WOULD THE AMBITIOUS LITTLE FASCISTS IN GOVERNMENT ADVISORY POSITIONS FIND SOME OTHER WAY TO COOK THE AMERICAN GOOSE?