Today at Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales speak with Stephen Kinzer about his latest book, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, who says the US likes democracy so long as the US preferred candidate wins in other countries. Among the many things discussed in the podcast below, is that "the United States has interfered in more than 80 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000. And that doesn’t count U.S.-backed coups and invasions."
In proximity of the Two World Wars, how did a transcontinental group of artists, educators and moralists use conflict as a catalyst for change toward high-minded social reform between 1915 and 1965?
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