How long will Americans wonder why the world hates them?

Americans continue to ask the same silly question: Why does the world hate us? Since I was a student in the US we have been discussing America’s policies of intervention and bias. Figures indicate that the CIA and the agencies affiliated with it have engaged in covert and open interventions to destabilise and overthrow elected regimes. Their interference in elections and the engineering of coups has led to the overthrow of approximately 50 governments hostile to American interests since the end of World War II. These include the government of Mohammad Mosadegh in Iran in 1953, and the governments of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala, Vietnam, Angola, Brazil, Indonesia, Argentina, Guatemala, and others. The truth is that there is […]