@RedSky

while i agree with you that this was most certainly a scripted interview,and one of the reasons i did not tag it "news",let us be clear and concise that this is a practice that most politicians,or heads of state engage in for most press conferences/interviews.

but that is where our agreement ends.

to downplay americas role in the overthrow of mossadeqh as to little more than a nuisance,with little actual affect on iranian politics,is not entirely accurate.while those elements existed,it was eisenhowers TPAJAX project which was specifically directed to inflame the already tense relationship between the royalists and the PM mossadeqh.

chalmers johnson and john perkins wrote at length and great detail in regards to this situation.

i will concede that i agree to a point (but only to a point),that american foreign policy is about reciprocation,but i find your analysis to be far too simplistic.when there is an over abundance of evidence that american foreign policy is not some benevolent spreading-freedom and democracy for the masses but rather colonialization by way of exploitation,indebtness and ultimately military might.

see:smedley butler
see:IMF and WTO
see:john perkins-confessions of an economic hitman

america is in the business of empire.this is about business and profit and the military is used as the hammer to keep those countries in line.

quid pro quo.

i am no fan of putin.he is ruthless and his domestic policies have caused immense suffering with the under class,but i have to respect his abilities as a politician.the man knows how to work a room.

http://videosift.com/video/john-perkins-confessions-of-an-economic-hitman-interview
thought you would be interested

Tags for this video have been changed from 'john perkins, confessions of an economic hitman, extended interview, ziegeist' to 'john perkins, confessions of an economic hitman, extended interview, zeitgeist' - edited by kulpims

conflations.
deflections..
and false equivalencies are all the dissenting arguments i am seeing.
and this is not due to me being a "leftist' and therefore not owning the ability to critically digest historical information and come to a conclusion.

someone spent 20 minutes to refute some of the data in this video only to find out the numbers were accurate BUT they did not reveal the specifics and hence the argument was invalid.
kinda like: "the yellow honda ran over a man today crushing his skull"
"HA! the car was GREEN"
"so it was but how does that change the fact the car crushed a mans skull?"

some have suggested that american interventionism is sometimes messy but usually a necessity.so while it may be complicated,sometimes america has had to do what the rest of the world would not.
this (falsely) implies that their is a thread of moral good when america attempts to straighten out an ugly situation in a foreign country and that sometimes,sadly,this leads to unintended consequences that may lead to blowback.
this is pure propaganda and i say this not because i hate my country but because if it were a true statement then america would be where ALL human rights,oppression and suffering under the hands of despotic governments resided worldwide.

see:rwanda,east timor,bangledesh there is a massive amount of places where america had a strict non-interventionist attitude.
and the reason is simple.those countries had nothing to offer,but our government seems to REALLY like working with dictators.easier to deal with one person who is friendly to american interests than a whole population that might (gasp/horror) have the ability to vote your interests down.so not only does america not give two shits about a country with no resources to exploit,they prefer despotic dictators and have installed them when necessary in the name of american interests.

war is always for the same things:resources,land and labor.now for thousands of years it was religion that was the driving force to get the average person to go out and slaughter but for the past 100 years it has been nationalism.

one last thing to address those who have mentioned alqaeda and what they post.
firstly:this has nothing to do with this video and is a false equivalency.
secondly:look up where alqaeda was on the FBI's most wanted list in 1999.look at who trained alqaeda,even funded them.notice anything?

so we can say vietnam was complicated.
ok..i can agree with that but lets remember it would have never even been issue if not for our government creating a false situation in which to enter vietnam in the first place.see:gulf of tonkin.
and again,has nothing to do with the premise of this video.

we can say muslims dont hate our freedom but rather they perceive us as immoral and decadent.
i would agree with that also if we were in the 1950's and the conversation was sayyid qutb and the muslim brotherhood but we are talking alqaeda which is the creation of the american intelligence CIA.
so it is america which created the complications we are speaking of.so whatever propaganda alqaeda uses now to recruit besides just pointing to us bombing the shit out of them is still indirectly a result of american interventionism.

neo-conservative ideology has nothing to do with being conseravtive but everything to do with using the massive might of the military to secure american interests globally.
might makes right.

lets also remember traditionally republicanism tended to be isolationist and faaar less hawkish.so ron paul is just being a traditional republican.of course now we live in bizzarro universe where everything is opposite so we have self-proclaimed republicans admonishing ron paul for ..what exactly? being a republican?
thats just weird.

and please understand that my points are not just some rage against america.i am not,by my commentary,ignoring the vast amount of good and noble things my country has done over the past 100 years or so but i also will not shut my eyes to what my countries foreign policy has done to so many small countries who happen to coincidently all be populated by brown people.

might i suggest:
chalmers johnson "blowback"
bryzenski's "the grand chessboard"
or the stellar book by john perkins "economic hitman"

maybe you will understand ron pauls position on these things.
/rant off

Confessions of an Economic Hitman was a mindblowing book when it came out. Now, it's clear that this is the reality in which we live -- globalizing the world, one indigenous civilization at a time.

*books!

parts deux, trois, et quatre

http://www.videosift.com/video/Confessions-of-an-Economic-Hit-Man-John-Perkins
http://www.videosift.com/video/Confessions-of-an-Economic-Hitman

Well, perhaps they're mentioned in media lot more because they're popular and interesting to begin with?

Hillary = Former president's wife. First FEMALE candidate.
Obama = Well spoken man. First BLACK candidate.

This is bad publicity to Ron Paul and their campaigner's part... Cooking up some uncredible conspiracy theory like that. I've been seeing a lot of these anti-government conspiracy theories on Videosift (like 'Zeitgeist' and 'Economic Hitman').

http://www.videosift.com/video/Confessions-of-an-Economic-Hitman

here's a good one about the American Empire, it's long but he quickly gets into how Bechtel, banks et al fuck up a country quietly. believe it or not.

first they bankrupt you and take your resources, if you protest they try to start a revolution in your country, if that doesn't work they send the army.

Watch your back

In reply to this comment by Fedquip:
Thanks Eric, that was mind blowing to say the least, I posted it to my AOL blog and somebody sent me this.

http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2006/Feb/02-767147.html

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
I think you may like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8&eurl=http://kineticreaction.blogspot.com/2007/10/confessions-of-economic-hitman.html

Thanks Eric, that was mind blowing to say the least, I posted it to my AOL blog and somebody sent me this.

http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2006/Feb/02-767147.html

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
I think you may like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8&eurl=http://kineticreaction.blogspot.com/2007/10/confessions-of-economic-hitman.html

Another longer interview here.

I think you may like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTbdnNgqfs8&eurl=http://kineticreaction.blogspot.com/2007/10/confessions-of-economic-hitman.html