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This is a one-hour history lecture that was broadcast on C-Span3 yesterday.
I caught this at about the 8 minute mark while channel surfing. I'll admit that I can't often sit through an hour of C-Span. But this time I couldn't change the channel. This is a really interesting look at some more details behind some history that many of us here kind of know about but probably didn't get in our high school or college history classes. Ok, not very detailed, because he covers several events during the hour, but certainly more than I knew before.
http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/Lectures-in-History-CIA-Regime-Change-in-the-Cold-War/10737432851-1/
And actually, part of me is wondering how long this will be available on the C-Span website. Ya know?
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)was intervention in Guatemala as a result of Jacobo Arbenz ,their democraticly elected President, declared intention to nationalise United Fruit's unused banana plantations. The Dulles Bros who encouraged Eisenhower to go ahead were both directly associated with United Fruit itself.
Chile was slightly different. Nationalising the copper would have has an extremely adverse effect on ITT who at the time were major contributors to the Republican Party. The number of deaths as a result of US intervention 9/11/73 was c. twice the latter day event.
Kindly Refrain
(423 posts)I recommend "Total Cold War" by Osgood. It explains how after WWII all aspects of American society were geared toward war and I mean all aspects, it was inescapable. And we still are.
MH1
(17,600 posts)I feel kind of out of it. I thought this guy Osgood sounded too good to be teaching at some small school somewhere. But it turns out this is a fairly prestigious institution in its niche. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_School_of_Mines
In this lecture he does mention the concept of "Total War" and how it drove the thinking behind these actions.
It also occurs to me that this kind of history is particularly relevant in a school that trains engineers for the petroleum industry.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)and Guatemala '54. Street fights, psyops, and a western press only to eager to print it all as gospel truth.