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uawchild

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2. You are correct, interfering in a country's politics is bad -- should we also stop doing that?
Sat Jul 30, 2016, 09:59 AM
Jul 2016

"America's Coup Machine: Destroying Democracy Since 1953
U.S. efforts to overthrow foreign governments leave the world less peaceful, less just and less hopeful.
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this is at least the 80th time the United States has organized a coup or a failed coup in a foreign country since 1953. That was when President Eisenhower discovered in Iran that the CIA could overthrow elected governments who refused to sacrifice the future of their people to Western commercial and geopolitical interests. Most U.S. coups have led to severe repression, disappearances, extrajudicial executions, torture, corruption, extreme poverty and inequality, and prolonged setbacks for the democratic aspirations of people in the countries affected. "
http://www.alternet.org/world/americas-coup-machine-destroying-democracy-1953

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