The Troops Protect Our Freedom, and Other Lies I Learned in School

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The United States’ record with regard to “enabling democracy” is also clear.  When it has best served the interests of the corporate world order to replace a dictatorship with a formal democracy, the United States has done so.  But when it has best suited the interests of corporate power to overthrow a democracy by force, the United States government has not hesitated to do so.
the wars in which all that blood has been shed have had little to do with the prosperity, freedom, or other interests of the people where the wars were fought.
More often than not, the United States has intervened to protect the corporations who own the world from the people who live in it.