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Overthrow: America's Century
of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts
School of Law, interviews Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow:
America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.
If you think George W. Bush and the
neoconservatives inducted "regime change" into American foreign
policy's hall of fame? Think again. Long before Iraq, U.S.
presidents, spies, corporate types and their acolytes abroad had
honed the art of deposing foreign governments.
The recent ouster of Saddam Hussein may have
turned "regime change" into a contemporary buzzword, but it's
been a tactic of American foreign policy for more than 110
years. Beginning with the ouster of Hawaii's monarchy in 1893,
Kinzer runs through the foreign governments the U.S. has had a
hand in toppling. Recent invasions of countries such as Grenada
and Panama may be more familiar to readers than earlier
interventions in Iran and Nicaragua.
05/27/07
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