{"id":108916,"date":"2014-03-03T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=108916"},"modified":"2014-03-03T14:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T14:36:59","slug":"overthrowing-peoples-governments-master-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/overthrowing-peoples-governments-master-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Overthrowing other people\u2019s governments: The Master List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Blum\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.\u00a0<em>(* indicates successful ouster of a government)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>China 1949 to early 1960s<\/li>\n<li>Albania 1949-53<\/li>\n<li>East Germany 1950s<\/li>\n<li>Iran 1953 *<\/li>\n<li>Guatemala 1954 *<\/li>\n<li>Costa Rica mid-1950s<\/li>\n<li>Syria 1956-7<\/li>\n<li>Egypt 1957<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia 1957-8<\/li>\n<li>British Guiana 1953-64 *<\/li>\n<li>Iraq 1963 *<\/li>\n<li>North Vietnam 1945-73<\/li>\n<li>Cambodia 1955-70 *<\/li>\n<li>Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador 1960-63 *<\/li>\n<li>Congo 1960 *<\/li>\n<li>France 1965<\/li>\n<li>Brazil 1962-64 *<\/li>\n<li>Dominican Republic 1963 *<\/li>\n<li>Cuba 1959 to present<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia 1964 *<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia 1965 *<\/li>\n<li>Ghana 1966 *<\/li>\n<li>Chile 1964-73 *<\/li>\n<li>Greece 1967 *<\/li>\n<li>Costa Rica 1970-71<\/li>\n<li>Bolivia 1971 *<\/li>\n<li>Australia 1973-75 *<\/li>\n<li>Angola 1975, 1980s<\/li>\n<li>Zaire 1975<\/li>\n<li>Portugal 1974-76 *<\/li>\n<li>Jamaica 1976-80 *<\/li>\n<li>Seychelles 1979-81<\/li>\n<li>Chad 1981-82 *<\/li>\n<li>Grenada 1983 *<\/li>\n<li>South Yemen 1982-84<\/li>\n<li>Suriname 1982-84<\/li>\n<li>Fiji 1987 *<\/li>\n<li>Libya 1980s<\/li>\n<li>Nicaragua 1981-90 *<\/li>\n<li>Panama 1989 *<\/li>\n<li>Bulgaria 1990 *<\/li>\n<li>Albania 1991 *<\/li>\n<li>Iraq 1991<\/li>\n<li>Afghanistan 1980s *<\/li>\n<li>Somalia 1993<\/li>\n<li>Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador 2000 *<\/li>\n<li>Afghanistan 2001 *<\/li>\n<li>Venezuela 2002 *<\/li>\n<li>Iraq 2003 *<\/li>\n<li>Haiti 2004 *<\/li>\n<li>Somalia 2007 to present<\/li>\n<li>Libya 2011*<\/li>\n<li>Syria 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Q:\u00a0<em>Why will there never be a coup d\u2019\u00c3\u00a9tat in Washington?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A:\u00a0<em>Because there\u2019s no American embassy there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>William Blum is an author, historian, and renowned critic of U.S. foreign policy. He is the author of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/williamblum.org\/books\/killing-hope\/\">Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/williamblum.org\/books\/rogue-state\/\">Rogue State: A Guide to the World\u2019s Only Superpower<\/a><\/em>, among others. <a href=\"http:\/\/williamblum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visit his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Blum\u00a0 RINF Alternative News Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.\u00a0(* indicates successful ouster of a government) China 1949 to early 1960s Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 Indonesia 1957-8 British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-108916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}