Reddit reviews The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

sorry to have to pull out another small-print : i did say "since then [1953]" .. but you do reference examples pre that mark (eg mao, colonian europeans). i don't disagree the british, spanish, portuguese, and dutch empires fucked up plenty too. but we are now in the era of the american empire.

also, your last paragraph kinda implies if it were not for america's involvement in SE asia, it would not be stable. that's a long bow to draw. i just don't see how that is obvious, and even if it were it still is not relevant to my statement (the most despot rulers have come about bc of american actions) .. ie if A then B does not imply if B then A.

as for Syria and Libya .. sorry strongly disagree these are 'humanitarian' interventions. Syria is a cesspit bc Iran is building a gas pipeline though there to reach Europe .. which Saudi Arabia and the US are opposed to. Libya was all about getting rid of someone who wanted to set up an African currency backed by Africas infinite supply of gold and other precious metals to trade his oil in. last time someone tried to get off the USD standard, he got his head chopped off in 2003, and Gaddafi went the same way in 2011. the whole of the middle east and northern africa is about oil and money. don't be fooled by the western media propaganda.

i don't know much about yugoslavia .. sorry.

as for the rest of africa and its despots, probably worth noting that american hegemony's tools are not just the military and cia. at its disposal are its controls over the IMF and World Bank .. and economic hitmen. John Perkins in his book The New Confessions of An Economic Hitman shows how countries with resources the west wants to control are easy prey .. and consequently why despots arise. interestingly, this may explain why SE Asia is a more stable region (but this is hypothesis on my part).

and yes, the Soviets/Russia are not blameless, but I don't think they are in the same league as the US.

Please watch The Nobel Lie on the OKC Bombing.

Please read Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Not shooting up a bunch of kids and lying about it is such victimless crime I can't believe American intelligence would do such a thing, given their bloody track record it's too kind for their MO.

Here's a lecture on historically proven false flags.

edit: Also checkout this documentary on Waco.

edit2: Listen to Madeleine Albright. She says outright that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it for Iraq's non existent WMD's, which is not why we went into Iraq. (It was a pre-forgone conclusion.) Meanwhile you don't think on American soil a handful of dead kids could ever be justified for some larger geopolitical strategic objective? It's UNTHINKABLE and only a rabid maniac could ever dream up such a thing?

edit3: Here's an article about the over 1 million Indonesian leftist the CIA helped massacred in 1965 alone. This type of genocidal violence isn't a one off in the history of U.S. foreign policy.

edit4: Go watch Abby Martin's the Empire Files. Do you know what the School of the America's was and what they did in South America? What was the Phoenix Program?