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Article: From the Halls of Montezuma ...(Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer)(Book review)
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- September 1, 2006
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Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq By Stephen Kinzer Times Books. 384 pages. $27.50.
When I started becoming politically aware, one of the first things that caused me to sit up and take notice was the CIA's role in bringing about "regime change" around the world. During the Iranian hostage crisis, Time magazine once carried a single-line mention of the 1953 CIA-directed removal of Mohammed Mossadegh that surprised the hell out of me. In the early 1980s, when Missing came to New Delhi, a newspaper dealt with the U.S. role in the ouster of Salvador Allende in Chile, a further shock to me. And then there were the repeated assertions of ...