You didn't mention that during Qaddafi's rule, education, electricity, medical insurance, and gas were free. One of the reasons for his removal was his attempt to establish an African Union that would have a currency backed by gold reserves instead of the petrodollar.
Gaddafi was taking great xare of his people. Free electricity free housing free education free medical support in marriages support to women biggest canal system in desert ... list goes on
His Story Producer, Rafaela Siewert (with the second billing under his own name), is literally the Associate Podcast Producer for the Council on Foreign Relations. That's why the video does a ridiculous job framing the US's coup against Ghaddafi as a fight against terrorism. And why he says "no one really knows the reason the US decided to use a coup" for every modernish coup. We all know it's economic still, and Ghaddafi was a Pan-African Unity supporter who wanted to create a Pan-African currency that would undermine the US dollar.
1°: Getting involved in a coup in Latin America 2°: The lives of the population in these countries become miserable 3°: The population of these countries flees to the United States 4°: United States complains about the immigration problem
Desperate people work harder for less, and the United States are always read to "welcome them". This is why the authorities don’t give a shit about illegal immigration.
@@Feashis Bullies and the rest of the world watched and enabled this arrogance to grow beyond measure Young leaders particularly in Africa are now standing up against this, and I fear that they will be assassinated or toppled to suit America's foreign policy Who gave America the Big Brother Status?
As a Mexican I’m disappointed you didn’t mention the 1913 coup on President Madero which was carried out with support by the U.S. ambassador to Mexico in order to install General Victoriano Huerta. It instigated a second phase of the Mexican Revolution in which all the warring factions united in order to overthrow Huerta from power.
Yeah... That turned into a shit show. "The Ten Tragic Days." After everything that went down Madero actually thought he would be fine after stepping down, exiled but fine... He thought very very wrong.
The sheer amount of latinx people that have been victimized in one way or another buy the US government over the last 80 years is absolutely staggering. And this happened in both foreign and domestic settings. I’m not just referring in terms of coups but anytime the US has been able to exploit something for the benefit of the country, they have gone for it regardless of any moral objections. Truly it does bring me great fear of what my country is capable of and makes me realize that I’m not built for a world that is capable of such things. I don’t want to support that kind of predatory behavior. Ofc this is only par the course for us a a species and as social creature. I just don’t wanna associate with it any longer should it come to that once again.
As a Chilean I feel sad that the military coup in my country was not presented. Letting history out is one of the few ways to make amends for the brutal damage the US has inflicted on my people.
there is just no way there is "no solid evidence" of US government involvement in Pinochet's coup. "Operation Condor" is a historical fact accepted even by the US agencies.
There are those of us who know and remember, across the world. But also, these voices are actively being silenced. We're at a turning point in history and im very worried we've made the wrong turn.
Well its all good and fine when the citizen thinks he is being benefited, it's not good tho when you realize you have nothing, and USA billionaires have it all
This really sounds like the definition of what the devil is.. creates conflicts, tells lies, works in the shadows, make people unhappy, fuel greed etc..
Look at Soviet Union just as many coups but it’s ok because that’s what we expect right? If they want to destroy us at some point we were going to have to stoop to their level, & the worst part is that Russia is actively meddling in other elections right now
In general, the people who benefitted from these coups were American corporations at the expense of the civilians living in those countries. Also, these coups often crushed political movements that may have increased democracy and/or improved the living conditions of the poor and working class people of those countries. These coups are why Central America is such a dangerous place to live today and why so many people are fleeing to America. The U.S. govt, for the benefit of American corporations, is responsible for today's migrant crisis at the border. Greed.
They’re literally in the comments of this video hating in the replies, like dude have you watched the whole thing, at this point you’re choosing to be ignorant
26:59: “It's not like it was a great place under Gaddafi.” Was that meant to be sarcastic? All Libyans had free healthcare, education and a free home for all newlyweds. I imagine a stable place with a great social welfare program is almost the same as living in a endless civil war where their national gold was stolen, there are constant terrorist attacks and open slave markets.
He’s not completely wrong tbh, although we did have all of that, infrastructure was especially poor, there was still a lot of corruption (still way less than today tho) and the death penalty was excessively utilised making it a major point of controversy. The main excuse NATO have for supporting the coup was literally to do with his excessive use of force. So really even tho Libya was much better off under his rule, he could’ve definitely done a better job imo.
It’s no coincidence that the U.S government has always used terrorism operations such remember the Maine , gulf of Tonkin”, operation Northwoods, 9/11, and countless of others to invade Spain territories, Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, etc. History will remember the U.S government for what it is which is an imperial empire and NOT a “beacon of freedom nor democracy.” Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
It's truly heartbreaking just how much misery and bloodshed have been forced upon the world. Millions of lives destroyed, resources pillaged, entire nations ruined forever. All in the name of profit and greed, with the aid of taxpayer money, while hiding behind ideals of liberty, democracy and "civilisation".
Grow up kid,it has allways been thus ! A lot of people have reason to be gratefull to The USA,especially its people. My reletives saw and knew young men go to Europe and never come back along with our own and allies. I have had a good life I will allways be gratefull to people I never knew. Its only when you get old you realise how lucky you have really been.
@@philiprufus4427 ofc you can be grateful for having a good life in a decent safe country like America. but in reality that has nothing to do with war at all because war is something not to be grateful for There are a few wars that America did that we should 100% be grateful of like the Civil War, the war that gave us independence wars that helped us. but there are wars where we just go to countries and say that we "help them" but in reality, we just kill innocent civilians and kill our own people in the process wasting a lot of money that could have made our country a better place like having better healthcare system fixing homelessness and adding a better transportation system. and I'm not saying that I am not grateful for what the American people did they did a lot of stuff that I could not imagine like the computer which is one of my favorite inventions. is that I want this country to be a better place and not destroy other countries in the process.
@@mjolninja9358 🤨Yeah, Pinochet ( *et al* !) were all just friggin’ *androids* remotely-controlled from a facility in Langley, right?? 🙄And _doubtless_, Allende and his comrades were *absolutely* faultless too, right?
Yeah this dude johnny Harris is friggin CIA - there's obv so much evidence for the us backed coup, pinochet waa basically a paid actor of the CIA, Allende was democratically elected. I mean yes, he's probably not CIA, but even with his trying of doing a video ok the astrocities of the US he's romanticizing capitalist agenda, because he's overlooking facts and trying his best to defend the US - listen to him how he says we have no idea how NATO got involved in Libya.
Which made the dream of a "United State of Africa" impossible till date, the C.I.A declassified the files & now accessible...killing the progress of soo many millions of africans.
Growing up I was always conflicted with myself on how I felt about our country. You would go to school and learn how America is this great bastion for Truth, Justice, and Democracy. But then you would come home, turn on the news, and slowly realize that none of that was true. That in fact we are the bad guys to the rest of the world. Here’s the situation here in America. We do not live in a democracy. We do not live in a republic. We live in a corporatocracy run by dynastic plutocratic families, corporate oligarchs, and International bankers. They are rooted in self-interest, greed, and power… not Love and Wisdom.
Well stated. Horrible to admit that the presidents are powerless to protect the people because they know they will be treated worse than the external targets that we topple through coups....ask Kennedy and Lincoln did they expect to be assassinated by their own people..
I concur,I remember reading a Newsweek decades back and it said "Guatemala and DRC (then Zaire) will never know peace.I wondered how such prediction was coming real every other year.
lol you guys have crippled your own country. Its so convienent to blame big bad USA.. but what about YOUR corrupt officials ?! What about YOUR CORRUPTION ? Your crime... drugs... gangs... its not the USA's fault its your peoples fault. Truth hurts.
@@FadedResolutions Unless you have done research on the subject ... you are really not qualified to argue the subject ... If you had done research on the subject you could not have the same defensive position !!! Sorry ...
You should include Indonesia. There are declassified CIA documents showing the CIA involvements in Indonesia's 1965 coup. In 1966-67 US gained most control over Indonesian oil & minerals explorations, most notably the once biggest gold mine on earth: the Grasberg gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. Just only recently Indonesia gets 51% share of this mine, previously Indonesia only got less than 4% 👍🏻🇮🇩🏆
100% correct: President Suharto's 30 year reign and the Coup against Indonesia's first democraticaly elected President Sukarno was heavily backed by CIA money and weapons.
@@eimsbush05 Nope. I live in a small Indonesian city called Jogjakarta. Here the infamous Allen Lawrence Pope detained after his B25 bomber (if im not mistaken the bomber type) was shot down by an Indonesian Air Force P51 Mustang during her bombing raid in Ambon island back in the 60s. Even we have a monumental diorama on that excact event, and btw back then in the 90's when i was a kid my dad bring home a pair of dog pup and he named 'em Allen & Pope.
More great stories like this, please. As a Puerto Rican and a person with strong connections to the Caribbean and a love for its history, I weirdly feel seen. A lot of these stories are never spoken of on platforms with the exposure or audience that you have. Thank You!
Great stories like the bullshit about Gaddafi hating Democracy and killing protesters? Go look at how well they were doing with Gaddafi, and then post-Gaddafi. There were open slave markets in one of those time periods, and it wasn't when Gaddafi was in power.
@@ali.a9083 Yes so lucky that, Biden just hired 90K extra IRS agents because you have to pay your tax, while your money gets inflated away.. You are so lucky that they coming after the normal people doing a transaction of 600 dollar. US is becoming a third world country quickly.
Thank you very much for this video. Everyone should know about this. My family was exiled from Guatemala when the coup happened and the country still has not gotten back on its feet. The coup literally plunged my country into decades of civil war
It hasn't because Guatamala is probably controlled by the USA behind closed doors. It seems like there are a lot of issues when a country lets the USA control it. USA literally promote this idea of the right to bear arms, despite it not being a right or a law in that country. That is why all the countries south of the USA, like Gautamala, are experiencing a lot of death by guns, which causes people to leave.
@Chris P are you saying that "the right to bear arms" isn't a right in the U.S or Guatemala? It may not be in Guatemala but it certainly is in the United Statea
Each coup should be a series on its own. I've watched the whole video without realizing it's almost half an hour long. I'd watch the whole series if it would be made. Thank you JH for this amazing work!
@@johnnyharris , I'm SO DOWN to watch a full series on US backed coups... It would be fascinating to dive into each country for 20-25 minutes, explore the history of the country before the coup, the coup itself, and the political aftermath that we are left with today. And then there is a WHOLE other discussion about the Eisenhower administration and coups...
@@johnnyharris To be honest my country the Philippines has a lot of American influence and we are thankful because of the different way western nations think that seeks logic and truth. The Spaniards were too religious and kept us ignorant. But knowing that the US employs a coup d etat and easily throws a government that does not seem to agree with them, (to me) is like a candle being lit up in the dark. It kinda opened a lot of ideas which I find no longer farfetch. To give you an example is the previous Duterte government. His strategy was opposite of the previous Aquino government and he is pivoting towards China. In some of his speeches, he will tell crazy tales like he will be overthrown, impeached or even assassinated by the CIA. Many dismissed it because of his popularity and high approval ratings. But thinking about it after watching your video, there's some truth to it. He was a strongman and a strongman was needed to fix and shake the ailing country.
Even more scary when they happen from within and a bunch of rich tax evaders hijack xenophobe tendencies to avoid upcoming tax bills. Looking at you Britain.
The US-backed coup in Brazil led to 20 years of torture, assassination and censorship. I actually interviewed one of the guys in the resistance when I was a reporter and he said that the main reason why they didn't fight back was the fact that the US had ships all over the coast and they were outnumbered.
Many Americans still don’t know what the U.S. did to other countries. Thank you for this video, it’s important we talk about history even if we don’t like it.
The irony is just monumental. In a country that literally non stop goes on about freedom and democracy and the dangers of brain washing, they are the most brainwashed people by far.
Uruguayan here. I'm I a bit disappointed that Uruguay didn't make the video, nevertheless in real life we usually get sweeped under the carpet. Both my Gradparents spent time in hard labor/concentration camps, and my parents started their early years fatherless. I'm glad someone is talking about this. I think that when an average person thinks of Latin America they usually think of poverty and domestic violence yet usually don't know why. I live in California and there are many great things about the USA, but it also has many problems (like every other country) that it needs to solve. Addressing this is one of them. 🇺🇾🇺🇾
You are right..Most of the world kinda dont understand the influence of Estados Unidos on south American countries.Almoast like C.Columbos statues and history attached to his name.
100% agree. My uncle is currently the Charge at the US embassy in Uruguay and I've had discussions with him specifically on US involvement. Johnny was pretty irresponsible with how he handled and breezed over US involvement in Latin America in this video. Pretty pissed off with this video.
I'm Brazilian, and there are some details about the 1964 coup that you didn't mention: 1- João Goulart was not a communist, he was part of a political line called "laborism", which is more nationalist than communist; 2- The 1964 coup was the result of three other coups that the US carried out in Brazil. In 1945, when they overthrew Getúlio Vargas, in 1954 again against Vargas, and in 1961 against Juscelino Kubischek. In 1961, JFK changed the US ambassador to Brazil and he began to waste millions of public dollars on propaganda against João Goulart, which forced the Brazilian government to conduct an in-depth investigation (Research the CIA's links with IPES/IBAD); 3- The coup was aimed at economic interests in Brazil, several US companies made a lot of money from it, CIA agents worked here for many years hunting "communists" and giving classes on torture; 4- The US financed three other coups in Brazil, one in 1989 (rigging the elections for Collor), in 2016 (overthrowing President Dilma) and in 2018 (arresting Lula and rigging the elections for Bolsonaro).
As a South American I lost my grandfather in the Operation Condor context. He was torture and killed by the militaries backed up by US. We went more than 20 years without a democracy and under a military dictatorship. Nowadays US foreign state use lawfare (at least in South America) to bankrupt companies and directly influence in state affairs .
@@1ndN2stThe reason for the American invasion of Iraq is even more baseless than the Ukraine war by Russia right now. It is shameful how no one in charge was held accountable
My good man, you're South America is still in shit, because the countries there were always too busy with other things than with economical developement. Oh, a big part pf you're insuccess was "guaranteed" by soviet intervention in that part of the American Continent. I hear now China is continuing the Soviets legacy, there. Corruption and the undereducation of Latin American nations also lead to their situation.
I wish you had covered the Chilean coup a bit more, and there IS rock solid evidence. I was able to even find classified documents about Operation Condor and Chile for the research I had to do for college.
I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't address almost anything about the coups in Brazil and Chile, it just goes to show how the US people don't care about South America.
The horrible effects America has inflicted upon my home of chile is so clear and evident i dont know how anyone could deny it or claim there is no evidence. even recently with the riots.
My grandparents had to escape from Chile during Pinochet's reign as refugees with my mom when she was a baby. They watched their country, and their lives get destroyed on September 11th, 1973. My best friends grandfather was also in Santiago when the air force were dropping bombs on La Moneda and besieging the capital. He was later imprisoned at the national stadium and was then taken to the Chacabuco concentration camp where he was tortured. There are so many fucked up stories from other Chileans in my community from that time.
as someone from latin America, they cannot fit everything into one video. He already made videos about Guatemala and Panama. Hopefully in thefuture, they will make those videos.
Understand why foreign countries have to do how they do know? You ne corrupt and serf "ours' of we will... Democracy lmao. Ome wat or the other we will get a leader in that benefits our elites that should not be. With your money paying for it. Not in your or the nations best interest. Not for the people in that country. Go figure why the world hates us and our muppet states.
there are far more on the list than that....canada was a "soft coup" complete with dual citizenship "Canadian-American" who live here and hold positions of real power.....usually bankster family's kids....canada is being looted worse than any african country and they flood the country with hard drugs and use the profit to buy guns and canadian real estate...our "dollar" is fake and manipulated to make us poorer
He never mentioned the coup in Ukraine in 2014. He never mention Yugoslavia. He never mentioned many of the other coups directly made by the US. He also was talking about some phantom terrorist organisations. This is obviously an incomplete video, and not a very truthful one.
At least he acknowledged at the start that there’s more he’s not covering. I agree because there’s more in Africa like Congo You’re right re Ukraine in 2014. If only more ppl knew of this, when a greedy Vogue posing gnome begs USA for billions of dollars, it should be a sign that something stinks !!! If anything, this whole thing has made me He’s definitely not depicting USA as a reasonable country of good guys that’s ffs
Great compilation, and I have only one request: I'd like to see the list of coups that fulfilled the criteria, before you reduced it further to the ones you included in the video. Would that be possible?
You left out a big one: Indonesia, twice. The first attempt to overthrow the left-leaning Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, in 1958 failed instantly after the Soviet Union intervened with the plans. In mid-1960s, however, General Suharto, backed by the CIA, led the army to oust Sukarno's Old Order and get rid of the Indonesian Communist Party, resulting in the deaths of one million suspected Communists. The CIA campaign has made a long-lasting impact in Indonesian society, and the fear of Communism in the country still runs high to this day. There are excellent documentaries and books about the '60s coup, among them "The Act of Killing" by Joshua Oppenheimer and "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins. Check them out if you haven't.
this coup was also used within the CIA as an example of how anti-communist coups were supposed to be conducted and the 'Jakarta method' was implemented in many asian and latin american countries afterwards. To understand how and why the US facilitated so many coup d'etats in the post-war period you really need to look at this one first.
Quite disapointed that you didn't add Argentina's last dictatorship which was a huge part of the condor plan lead by the US like you did with Chile and Brasil but so glad you cover other countries as well. My grandfather disappeared on 1976 when the coup started so if you have any questions, i'll be glad to answer :)
as Argentinian I agree 100%, we all know that US was behind the coups. Also until these years through the IMF which is controlled by US and they approve unpayable credits only to US friendly presidents (like Mauricio Macri). Thats the new way of coup: economic.
The coups in Brazil, Argentina and Chile were above all organized by their own military forces. Just the same way as populist phenomena like Peron or Bolsonaro are home grown. The CIA was certainly supportive, but not at all the driving force that it was in Iran, and Plan Condor was not really central. If you do not root out the fascism in your own society, the same mistakes will happen.
Same, there’s so much stuff that wasn’t mentioned. I’m glad people are giving push back in the comment section, because the reality is most Americans aren’t even aware of these coups.
How did you skip Argentine and Uruguay? with Kissinger fingers at the same time with the heads of Montoneros Tupamaros, at the same time mobilizing Armies of both countries the Called Operaciòn Condor.
The US wasn't indirectly involved in either the Uruguayan Coup of 1973 or the Argentine Coup of 1976. They were certainly pleased with the results, for a while Argentina supplied military advisors to US backed repressive regimes in Central America, teaching torture and CRW methods.
@@Jonathan-d8d7i "wasn't indirectly involved, just trained the military in clandestine operations and the playbook of doing a coup" I'm assuming it was a typo, but I'm from Brasil and here was indirect involvement as in they just said that if the coup went bad they'd sent an aircraft carrier and pushed the idiots in the army to actually act, besides the training and financial support of operation condor. But Argentina was definitely more direct, kinda halfway to the style that happened in Chile. The US is definitely the most terrorist and criminal organisation of the 20th century
@@zedascouve2180 OK we could quibble about what constitutes direct and indirect assistance but in the case of the 1964 coup in Brazil it is absolutely clear that Vernon Walters played a very direct and influential role in effecting the coup. He travelled up and down the country bolstering support amongst the military and providing them with guarantees of military and diplomatic support. It's arguable that many if not most would have lacked the courage without the green light from the US. Argentina in 1976 was already a shit show (a near perpetual state of affairs) although it would get infinitely worse under the junta. I have seen no evidence that there was direct involvement by the US in the coup itself. Operation Condor is a quite separate topic. Quite agree about the old Estados Unidos criminal culpability. A cheer was raised along with several glasses in this household the day that Kissinger died. Cara, eu morei no Brasil, gastei muito tempo lá e conheço bem o país e sua história. Um abraço J
@@Jonathan-d8d7i yeah, you are right, I guessed i mixed things up, just get really upset with this topic. Haha I also cracked a beer and put some political songs from these times, specially the hopeful ones, when Kissinger finally went to sit on Satan's lap. Posso perguntar de onde você é? Abraço
hopefully the failed psy ops and lawsuits vs a USA political opponent will go down as a failed coup. people need to wake up because what our government has done to countless other countries (seen in this video) it'd doing to the republican party now
To follow up on the Chilean coup that is really interesting because out of the coups on here, it was the only one with political hits on American soil.
@@jeroxis9975 Today they would but they hide them behind so much Garbage and rhetoric that we dont learn the true evil they committed until that president is long dead
@@SixWasTakenThat’s actually not the US’s fault. Turkey has a history of military coups against governments that espoused politics that weren’t secular because of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s policy of tasking the army with upholding state secularism. That and Turkey has not had any significant length of time where genuine democracy existed
@@Edmonton-of2ec genuine democracy doesnt work well for turkey like russia and Most of the coup attemps are fully paid for by the US government and its obvious enough that i am surprised you didnt know. I suggest u research more
I’m from Chile living in the US since I was 10. I am 28 now and I’ve always hear of the crazy stuff that went down with Pinoche, I was excited to hear about this but then it got cut off. Sad. Would love to hear more in-depth about what happened and the US’s role in it. It’s very interesting! Love your videos!
Except he put propaganda crap at the end, as if Russia meddling with Trump elections was a bad thing, heck, do it again then, I bet US currently will welcome another 4 years of Trump, Hillary have been a disastrous foreign minister, thank God she lost, nearly won because her husband got a blow job(none from her own accolades). So mentioning the propaganda is completely useless, not even effective and nearly got world peace for a change.
The man that made this video is a Democrat that's why he didn't mention the 2014 takeover of Ukraine Victoria nuland CIA controlled by the Democratic Party the modern Ukrainian government control the Democratic Party it's a direct result of that 2014 takeover
In the video is said that the coup in Libya (as far as we know it is Franco-British) is a NATO-American coup. very serious thing to say. naturally the video does not report the sources despite an accusation of such gravity
Many people are shocked by the fact Americans don't know what America did, but what I am shocked by more is how all the world's countries get mass reprimand and backlash for even the slightest of mistakes and errors (let alone declarations of war, war crimes, accusations of propaganda etc.) but the US is just allowed to walk off without any punishment time and time again.
@@james6208 might makes right. Also why a lot of non-western citizen sees western values as a crude joke. They don't value human rights, just for their own.
You should see hasans cover of this video cause he dont really talk about the gravity the coups forexempel the chilean coup and hes so bias toward even saying libya was not a better place under gaddafi when it was
i remember a guy waving off the entire middle east, saying 'they are always killing each other over there' and i remember how much it pissed me off bc of exactly this. Such ignorance towards the crimes of the US (and the brits too) and what an easy and disgusting way to view those that suffered most.
“They’re always killing each other over there” is such a wild statement considering it’s more of they’re always killing us over there (and vice versa) and we’re too busy killing each other back home to care 😂
Have you looked into the history of the Middle East pre 9/11? They really were just killing each other lol. The Shia vs Suni conflicts have impacted almost every Muslim nation
Its funny, because in Damascus up until today usually you have mosques just next to churches, sometimes they get out from prayer and salute each other, handshake and before the covid even kiss, check on eachother matters and very respectfully go to their work. In the areas where the US supported like pakistan Jihad was created, in Syria u see the same groups controlling the local matters now under the freedom name, and they literally have signs that say "democracy is the weapon of the west don't be fooled" and unsurprisingly u don't see Christians out there. Thanks for the US for their democracy and values but we won't buy them.
I’ve been waiting for this one Johnny.. I’m in college getting ready for my journalism internship and your content is boundary pushing for these new generations. There’s something happening here
Freedom of the press is integral to democracy and the people. Don't forget how critically important that is if you get "in the biz." You will get lots of hate for being "the media" by authoritarian sympathizers. Stay strong.
I'm glad Johnny overviewed these, getting the truth that these coups happened is good. However, I think most of us would've happily watched an hour+ long video that at least did each event justice by giving SOME detail and analysis.
@@johnnyharris couldn't you just do it for the people who's lives were/are being destroyed by these practices? Money shouldn't always be the reason bro
@@adambuss654why not support him instead of criticising, and he did several video about some of theses coups as mentioned in the video and some of them are the best on those topic.
@@Voyager150 my point was mainly formed from his comment about his ability to afford it, but I'm sure if he was to write it off as a business loss, it wouldn't be the worst thing... However, it's given me the idea for a Johnny Harris iceberg for anyone who feels like he should dive deeper into a topic.. Anyways, much love for his efforts, but as I said, money shouldn't always be the reason, bro
Ths video did a great disservice to Gaddafi. Not one mention of the fact that the coup revolved around the use of their own currency and not the dollar. Ask HRC.
Single phone call by Lady Rothschild to Hilary Clinton complaining Tut Tut about Gadaffi's Pan African bank to compete with the Rothschilds financing everybody. Hilary couldn't jump high enough to take down Gaddaffi ! And now millions of sub Saharan Africans have migrated thru unbordered Libya to Europe to go onto social benefits.
Conveniently doesnt mention coup in Ukraine where there is phone conversation of US reps (agents) talking how they are financing and orchestrating the coup.
The US is the godfather of all mafias! The gold standard for organized crimes! Also, the stories that this guy tells is a sugar-coated version of the vices that the has US committed! The true scope of the US’s crimes is much more vicious and evil!
If the mob mafia finds a way way to make money illegal and the government finds out about it. They adapt to that idea and use it on the nation. United States congress is todays mafia mob. Anything to rob this country blind even if it means taking the country down.
For a country (or at least government, I know a lot of its citizens are not aware of what their leaders are doing!) that claims to be the "World's Police", they do have this uncanny knack of picking probably the worst people to endorse to the throne of those countries where they establish a coup. Somehow, after all these, they make things worse for those directly involved and sometimes it even comes back to bite them.
Well in my country some people called American a "world police" that make Sense replace a dictator to another dictator in name democracy Most interesting how long America can survive without "military interference influence another big arms dealer" while Chinese play debt trap in the name Economic and investment
Peru / CIA involvement At least 49 civilians were killed in clashes with the police or military during protests after President Pedro Castillo was impeached last December when he tried to dissolve Congress and rule by decree, according to figures from the country’s ombudsman’s office. A New York Times investigation in March found that in three towns where deadly clashes occurred, the police and soldiers had fired shotguns at civilians using lethal ammunition, shot assault rifles at fleeing protesters and killed unarmed people, often in apparent violation of their own protocols.
As a Thai who learn the history of my own country during the Cold War, I can confirm that the States also got themselves involved in our politics as well.
As an Indonesian, I thought Thailand never got involved in any political nonsense, the US definitely got their hands on in Indonesia in the 60s, throwing the 1st president Soekarno out of office and backed the "coup" general Soeharto into office. The reason? you all probably could've guessed it. Yep, communism. I'm surprised Johnny didn't put this in, but that's probably because the lack of evidence and sources regarding the US involvement, but we all definitely knew they're definitely involved real deep
They are trying in my country as well.. in 1975 it was direct CIA Involvement of the killing of Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation .. after almost 50 years now they are trying to overthrow his daughter from power.
Thailand is on the Heartland Ring, that's why the US has had so many military actions around that overall region and still does a permanent large scale training operation named Cobra Gold (I was part of that 😂 the jungles of Thailand are freaking hot when you got 60 pound of gear on and you've been hiking through dense jungle all week long). Look up 'Makinders Heartland Theory' to understand why the Heartland Ring is so important. That section of the world is the largest chunk of land mass globally and the US does alot of things on the Heartland Ring as part of a policy of containment, deterrent and rapid deployment incase China or Russia attempt to send a large force into Europe, Southern Asia, Middle East or Africa. It's a remnant of WW2/Cold War paranoia. Think about it, Japan (bases), South Korea (bases/war), Vietnam/Laos (war), Thailand (permanent large military training operations), Afghanistan (war), Iraq (war), Turkey is NATO, Eastern Europe (major missile defense system). It's all the Heartland Ring. Look up 'Makinders Heartland Theory' there are plenty of videos about it here on You Tube
It also got there by having 2 coastlines,a more democratic system than was normal at the time(hence why so many Europeans fled to the USA,eventualy including men like Einstein who enriched it),an abundance of natural resources,by being too far away to suffer war on its home soil,by not oppressing ideas at home which allowed for greater creativity(except for instances like McCarthyism) and generally a culture of innovation and criticism. Not just via barefaced theft,obviously.
The significancr of two huge coadtlines by the way is in part the resistancr to potrbtial invasion and ease of ability to have a strong navy. Basicslly
It's so sad, Patrice Lumumba could have been the kind of statesman President Mandela was. There's a university named after him in Russia. Most famous student? Carlos the Jackal.
Slight correction : "Coup" probably doesn’t refer to a punch. In french, coup is short for "coup d’État", to which État means "state", but coup probably doesn’t mean "punch" in this context. There is this expression "coup monté" which means "organized plot", and "dans le coup" which means "part of the plot". In this case, "coup" refers to "plot". So, "a state plot" is probably a more accurate translation.
you should make a whole video about Operation Condor tbh, that shit was WILD. For those who don't know, it was a series of coups all around south america during the 70s and 80s, and go WAY deeper than that brief part he mentioned with chile.
Hilarious how the US did this in so many countries, yet the government expects us to not believe they couldn't do it here with JFK. Great videos, earned a subscriber.
Fun Fact: Sadam Hussain was also put into place by the US government. He was meant to keep a certain country busy by attacking them (sry, I don't remember if it was Saudi Arabia or Iran) , this way US businesses were free to plunder the oil fields in Kuwait without any competitions. For his efforts, the US had promised him help, getting his very own oil springs, but as usual, they forgot about that. And so, Hussain turned around and attacked Kuwait to get the promised oil wells, the very oil wells the US claimed for themself and thus Hussain became enemy No1.
@derrickbridges2611 Actually back then (being the economically backwards, not too industrialized Ottoman Empire) there weren't really oil pumps in the Middle East if any at that time.
Another fact, this one not a coup: during WW2, both the British (their empire too?) worked together to make the Nuclear Bomb. You might guess what happened next. The U.S. ripped Britain off and claimed the thing for themselves, and that's how Britain ended up as the third country to officially get nukes.
As an Indonesia, you need to talk about how US backed the coup of Soekarno that eventually become the method they used in all of Latin America, and they named it Jakarta method
Yes and they did the operation twice, second one between 1994-1998, some will said 1996-1998 but the tips from CIA to several conglomerate started from 1994. Jakarta method, in Jakarta, twice.
@@muhammadradhivan8436 I can very well see a third time in the future if our country remain or becomes too friendly with China. Third times a charm right?
@@MsHarunaMoon third time will be easier as many business in Indo are duopoly or triopoly by big company. CIA just need to get 1-2 of them greedier than ever then hits then collapse.
@@mcfragger2605 Many agencies were involved in East Timor, the speculation is US and Australia are definitely involved, Australia is more involved at least even more in recent years because of natural gas. Although this matter isn't really known substantially by the general public of Indonesia, they know about the invasion and the general figures involved, but nothing much more than that
Obviously, the US made some unjustified and terrible options. The thing is, people (like you did now) took Kissinger's quote out of context. Quoting someone: _The context is advice Kissinger was giving the Nixon administration on handling the leader of a South Vietnamese coup:_ _"Nixon should be told that it is probably a goal of (Johnson’s Defense Secretary) Clifford to remove Thieu (South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu) before Nixon takes office. One should tell Nixon that if Thieu suffers the same fate as Diem, the nations of the world will learn that being America's enemy may be dangerous, but being America's friend is fatal.”_ _In short, he’s saying exactly the opposite of what the misquote is trying to claim. The quote likes to pretend this is Kissinger describing reality. In fact, Kissinger is describing an alternate reality that should not be tolerated (and wasn’t). It’s the difference between science and science fiction..._ _NOTE: His advice was followed. The Nixon administration made no effort to end Thieu’s regime, so Thieu remained head of South Vietnam until moments before it fell in 1975._ _I’d say, consider this deliberate deception the next time you read anything written on [the internet] by someone who likes to misquote Kissinger, because it shows they’re willing to bend truth until it breaks._ Very interesting. I'm all for making who was responsible to be responsible, but when you have two evils and have to pick one to defend - it makes sense to go with the lesser evil (which clearly is not Putin). Then again, it depends on what context and who's involved ... and some people love to overgeneralize which I hate.
NOT anymore , with China , Russia and the Asia rising , collectively make a force much bigger than the US . America won't dare to attack non of these countries.
Thanks for making this video John. I dont think alot of Americans know how much destruction that the American government has caused in other countries on there dime. Keep up the great work.
Im 21, we dont. They not only dont tell us, many signs point to the information being explicitly supressed. Very few amongst my generation know even some of the crimes of our government, but they want to know. Never let us forget
Trust me i know, it’s very frustrating. The same things that we preach we don’t allow others to have… Freedom. Our sins don’t just evaporate into thin air, We will have to face them soon enough :/
Major General Smedley D. Butler was the most highly decorated Marine prior to Chesty Puller taking the record after Butler's death in 1940. Butler fought in the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution and World War I. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, Central America, the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I. He wrote a short essay titled, "War Is A Racket" that is available to read online. It details the true nature of war (*all* war) and shows how the average soldier is deceived into thinking they are fighting for some noble cause, like freedom. I highly recommend it.
Funny you made this comment about Butler. He actually was asked by secret societies (Bush and Walker and other big industrialists) to perform a coup to overthrow Roosevelt and install a nazi government. This is actually real! It's called the Business Plot.
My understanding was that Libya was actually pretty good under Gaddafi. It most certainly is worse now than it was. Maybe that's an interesting topic? Is all of this chaos actually good? What would have happened if things had gone otherwise?
1. That applies to literally every country, even if one is a violent dictator removing him causes a power vacuum, political stability is the most important factor to country prosperity. 2. Libya is not a nation state like most euro countries, you have to look at the different ethnic group within them and how their treated. He may of been good to the Arab majority but he treated the taureg and Berber native groups like absolute shit and they are the ones who rebelled. Same applies to saddam who treated the Kurds like absolute shit but if u ask an Iraqi Sunni Muslim they’ll say he was the kindest leader ever lol.
Stalin, who cannot in any way be suspected of liberalism, remarked with irony: "I always thought that democracy is the power of the people, but Comrade Roosevelt clearly explained to me that democracy is the power of the American people." And Stalin was still cunning - democracy is not the power of the people, and not even the power of the American people, but the power of the Democratic Western Cult.
@@monaliza3334 The faces of those who they elect change but the policy's and main descion making never changes. It's to give the people the illusion that they are in control. American democracy. (In 2014 america overthrew Ukraines democratically elected president, and put their puppet in, zelensky. People don't understand the Russia/Ukraine was a deliberate plan. Theirs more to the picture that it seems at first glance...
You missed Angola.... It's a big one! They found oil.... The rest is history but south Africa helped Namibia in a border dispute but soon they found out they were fighting against American weapons and a much more resourceful army....
Angolan actual regime was actually one of the few that managed to survive US coups. Cuba and URSS entered the civil war and prevented the coup from happening, just like in Sirya today. The US was supporting the opposition rebels lead by Savimbi. He should have mentioned Rwanda and Burundi. The amount of likes your comment got shows how easily it is to spread misinformation
@@1individeo People don't care enough to know the truth. America was at that time covertly supporting the apartheid regime here in South Africa in our wars in Namibia, Mozambique and Angola as well.
I understand why it bothers you, but the reality is that between only 1946 and 2000 USA was involved in 81 coups. I will look up the angola coup after this video, but i think it would be unrealistic to expect him to go indepth on every coup USA was involved in only half an hour
Hi Johnny. You can add 1980 Turkey coup to the list. Although Turkey has been a NATO ally, the country didn’t have an open market. The evidence of US involvement is a phone call from a US general saying “Our boys did it.” Following the coup, a manager from the World Bank became prime minister. Turkey opened its market and started building expensive infrastructure on foreign debt.
You have mentioned just one coupe. Turkey had their leaders forced to resign about every 10 years after 1960. Unfortunately, every leader whoever wanted to work for the people of Turkey was forced to resign one way or the other. US is using Nato to conquer the world but US is being used by some elites so our enemy isn’t the nations, countries or religions or etc.
Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma too as the encirclement of China. Then Afghanistan war also used to encircle Russia. Syria Libya, Iran, Iraq war are too well known. Lies. Larceny, false flags, are often used. The USA public were cheated all the time.
He doesn't accurately cover anything later than the 1970s because the goal of this video is to be controlled dissent, not a truth teller. His Story Producer, Rafaela Siewert (with the second billing under his own name), is literally the Associate Podcast Producer for the Council on Foreign Relations.
One of my favorite sayings I've learned so far...... "If you walk past a body of water and there's two fish fighting in a pond be sure an Englishman just walked by" 🤷🏾♂️
Sadly, so much of the world still falls for it. The current crisis in Ukraine, all the Ukrainian and Russian suffering there? An Anglo or three walked by, did a little meddling. Or a lot.
Costa Rica's international airport, Juan Santamaria, was named after our national hero. He was immortalized during the war between Costa Rica and the Southern Confederacy of America during the 1850s. Colonel Schlessinger invaded Costa Rica and was defeated at the Second Battle of Rivas in April 1856. The defeat came after an army drummer, Mr. Juan Santamaria, advance towards a building commanded by American forces, mortally hit by multiple bullets, he set the building on fire before he deceased. The statue of the man with a torch at Costa Rica's airport is him, our hero, Mr. Juan Santamaria.
The was no Southern Confederacy of the United States in the 1850s. The Southern Confederacy was formed in response to the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
It's honestly so heartbreaking to see the lengths USA has gone to, to get what they want. They had no business doing half of these things, getting hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in the process, the 'right' thing was never their focus, it was money.
@@sextond I mean I'm only 19 yrs old, and grew up in India, so I had a skewed perspective on rhe world to begin with. So yeah ig I was and still am pretty naive.
It's not about the US, it's about men with power who want more power. Other nations throughout history have done the same, it's just the US turn ATM. China is not doing any better currently, Europeans have done it, hell even African nations have done it in the past when they reigned. The casualties are the masses who really want to live a peaceful life, and are sold the dream of democracy.
My country is been in a coup and it's been over two years. Life has been suffering and people turned into ashes. It felt like we've been left alone with little to no help , where resistance deplete over time and becoming one of the most dangerous country to visit in the world. To be seen on a video in this channel for a second or two brings a smile to my face
"In Search of Enemies" is an excellent book about the Angola Coup written by John Stockholm, an ex CIA agent that was directly involved with its operations. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in America's coups
as a brazilian would like to remember the coup in brazil was not just about military and political support during the coup. after it cia trained our military and economists to keep power. They teach how to torture - the same torture they used in Vietnam. This resulted in even children - some 4/5 years-old - being tortured, arrested, and exiled. The military called them little terrorists
USA Warmongering bloodshed lies profit from sales of weapons of death ☠️💀 , Greed, oppression, bombing, evils plan, evil 👿 Criminals, Genocide acts has no End, no shame And it keeps getting Worse!!!!
Libya was a better place under Qaddafi or Western media & govts never wanted people to know this so they painted him as ferocious guy. It is mind-boggling that guys like Johnny Harris, well educated, well informed, knows how to do research has fallen under this trap of western media and govts.
I fully agree. Johnny saying “so the US feels they like it must get involved to save these protestors”… 🙄 I honestly don’t know if Johnny, knowing everything he knows about US involvement in the world for such a long time, is actually still that naive or ignorant, or is he aware but afraid of openly criticizing the US because it’s a relatively “recent” event? “But it’s not like it was a great place under Qaddafi”. Really Johnny? Who decides what a “great place” is? What place do other countries have to use that as an excuse to invade and kill people? And what role did Qaddafi’s wish to have an African currency, backed by gold and completely independent of the US dollar play into his assassination? For a research journalist, you seem to be not doing a great job there. Also, where is the evidence that Russia interferes with US elections? Or are you falling for the narrative that CIA-backed corporate media is telling you, Johnny? Much like how the US in the past, like you’ve demonstrated here, have used the media as a tool to demonize countries and their “dictators” to justify US foreign policy? Lastly, when are you going to wake up to the role of the US in Ukraine, especially in the coup in 2014 and most importantly in what is happening now with Ukraine and Russia? For someone who understands the power and danger of narrative very well, as you have shown with your videos many times, you seem to be totally oblivious on this war with Russia that is totally what the US desired for a long time. Research what Hillary Clinton and Condoleeza Rice have said about that. You can do better, Johnny. If history doesn’t teach you to be extremely skeptical of every narrative that the US is putting out there when it comes to each and every other country in the world, what’s the point? What did we learn then? How do we break this cycle as a people?
It wasn't difficult to "paint him as ferocious" because it is a fact that he was a tyrant who did a lot of damage to neighboring countries, regardless of the benefits he brought to Libya.
Coming from one of this countries, where the effect of all this are still present today, is really hard to explain. Americans have no idea that most of the issues we face today, in Latin America in particular, are a different consequence of US foreign policy.
johnny, been watching you for over a year now, this has gotta be one of your best videos. the map making and editing is so good. story telling and all was beautiful. I really enjoyed this one!
Except that he repeated the totally-debunked 'Russia collusion' hoax just because he hates Trump. Johnny is not consistent, and he lost a lot of credibility with that. In fact it's been quite well-documented ever since that it was Hillary that colluded with foreign interests to stop Trump and not the reverse. I won't be returning to this channel, which is a shame because Johnny made many great points but fell totally, horribly off the rails with that last jab at Trump. And he is totally wrong on the Ukrainian situation, too.
It’s no coincidence that the U.S government has always used terrorism operations such remember the Maine , gulf of Tonkin”, operation Northwoods, 9/11, and countless of others to invade Spain territories, Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, etc. History will remember the U.S government for what it is which is an imperial empire and NOT a “beacon of freedom nor democracy.” Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
@@LittleSaladBar you should know if your country feeds on the deaths of others, so you know if you are a beast or a decent human. No murican is a decent human 😂
If we wouldn’t have best believe others would’ve done it. For example, China in the current present or the British, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Dutch in the past. America introduced globalism and helped millions out of poverty. America has done good as well. When America isn’t in power, I’m sure most people will miss the days she was.
@@armandohermoso5070 it’s big business to demonize the US. I just hope it doesn’t destroy the US. Most of what is said about the US is common from other countries - China - Russia - Saudi Arabia-Great Britain ect.. it’s easy to blame the US for all of the worlds problems instead of taking a look at countries leadership.
@@armandohermoso5070That doesn't make it right and there is no way you can valid that assertion. It was evil action by USA in places they had no business being at the expense of the people that live there. No wonder Central and South Americans are fleeing there. They were promised freedom and their countries were broken instead...
Imagine being upset about what China (even Russia) are allegedly doing (trying to take over as the world's #1) then also ignoring the horrific things the US and UK have done to get to where they are
The removal of Lumumbua really hurts for me, as a Black American. I can only imagine how the Congo, or even the entire continent of Africa would be if it hadn’t been for foreign intervention. He could’ve truly changed the trajectory
Now the US and its western allies are demonizing China's BRI project which will probably be the last chance for Africa to really make changes and get rid of everlasting poverty
Did not mention either than the United Nations General Secretary aircarft was shutdown during his negotiation in Congo....there is not a single act,,,not one that as a terrorist act has not been done or enacted by the USA imperialism in the last week of our times...
One of the most harrowing things I’ve ever heard, was a CIA operative talking (on PBS), about driving around Kinshasa with the murdered body of Patrice Lamumba (Democratically elected leader of the DRC) in the trunk of his car, wondering what to do with it.
As a salvadorian I think I can speak for all Central Americans about how you should’ve shined a light on the brutal violence and bloodshed the United States engaged in throughout the 80s and 20th century in general. Ramifications still felt today in almost the all of the region (although I know he only did coups, and ones with concrete direct ties to the us, they still did a lot of terrible things that weren’t coups, such as destabilization, sanctions, etc)
Yeah this was a really sugar coated video. The US-backed governments in Guatemala didn’t jail “suspected communist sympathizers” they straight up executed them.
This video is for American liberals who wanna act like their countries atrocities are in the past and weren’t that bad. Every single Coup story he framed as innocently as possible. I’m sure those assumed „communists“ were just „detained“ in all those nations. It’s a feel good story for Americans to say „look we‘re owning up to our mistakes“ while conviently leaving out many other coups, atrocities and war crimes that happened during those times. He’s doing the opposite of owning up to it. He tells the stories as us-positive as possible and only mentions coups that were admitted and declassified. Johnny Harris is not owning up the mistakes he’s partaking in apologetics towards us imperialism.
@@winzracingNZ NO! UKraine wanted to get close to the West, just like Poland, because it didn’t want it to be “smaller brother” to abusive Russia, who was holding it back. It suffered enough and USA saw the opportunity and supported Ukraine, not the other way around!
I did High School in the US and NONE of these things were even mentioned in our history classes. Only up until college level that I was being shown these things (But many of these classes were elective classes - so very few people get exposed to this). I clearly remember my high school books being so dismissive about big events, such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki pretty much being like "oops... yea we just dropped a couple of bombs in Japan because... 'MURICA!"
These are covered in HS history. The atomic bombings were a blip in history. Even in the history of WWII, the atomic bombings are less significant than certain campaigns.
@@anf-2abuffalo603 that is actually falce. The main reason for those bombings were to test the bombs on actual cities with actual people, and to show the world their shiny new toys. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen not for their strategic value (wich they had almost non), but for their different terrain that would make the test results more interesting. Japan was ready to surrender already, it would happen within days either way, and the US actually was in a huge hurry with the bombings because if they surrendered too soon it would be hard to justify dropping the bombs. So it was purelly murder of civilians for science and politics.
@@Vrodelena can I get a source saying definitively that the Japanese were preparing to surrender? Because their culture dictates that surrender is dishonorable, and death would come before dishonor. Also, if it seemed like they were planning to surrender, why would America have been preparing a land campaign?
@@anf-2abuffalo603 I heard that in a lecture by the well respected historian, so cant name any books. And maybe days is a bit of an overstatement, but it would deffinitely happened a couple of months, because the USSR was about to join in. And with much less casualties, bacause the troops are a lot more selective about who is killed and takes prisoners. The no surrender thing might be relevant among the old samurai families, but the vast majority of population would rather live, even in Japan. There was a lot of opposition to using the bombs because it was unnesasery in the US as well, I believe one Greg Mitchell wrote a book about that.
As somebody who’s born and raised in the united states and is of guatemalan and chilean descent and has family affected due to both of these coups, this was interesting to watch
How do you feel living in the very same Country that destroyed/killed your parents/ancestors Country? Just curious because as an Iraqi I rather DIE than living or supporting America
as a Mexican, I never knew about this stuff until I migrate to the US, never heard anything back then, internet really is a doble edge sword, you can reaserch stuff like this and get better informed, but on the other hand you know it's full of propaganda too, shit, am I getting paranoid? even this video 'could be seen' as propaganda 'undermining the US motives'. might be time for a social media break :)
You didn't mention that during Qaddafi's rule, education, electricity, medical insurance, and gas were free. One of the reasons for his removal was his attempt to establish an African Union that would have a currency backed by gold reserves instead of the petrodollar.
Thank you
Gaddafi was taking great xare of his people. Free electricity free housing free education free medical support in marriages support to women biggest canal system in desert ... list goes on
His Story Producer, Rafaela Siewert (with the second billing under his own name), is literally the Associate Podcast Producer for the Council on Foreign Relations. That's why the video does a ridiculous job framing the US's coup against Ghaddafi as a fight against terrorism. And why he says "no one really knows the reason the US decided to use a coup" for every modernish coup. We all know it's economic still, and Ghaddafi was a Pan-African Unity supporter who wanted to create a Pan-African currency that would undermine the US dollar.
If life was so great under Qaddafi's reign then why were so many countrymen murdered and why was his body desecrated by his people?
@@Richard.oglesby ight, then explain why Libya is such a terrible place now?
1°: Getting involved in a coup in Latin America
2°: The lives of the population in these countries become miserable
3°: The population of these countries flees to the United States
4°: United States complains about the immigration problem
They Were Gonna Flee Regardless If The U.S. Throws A Coup
Not just American but European colonizer-capitalist chickens coming home to roost.
Desperate people work harder for less, and the United States are always read to "welcome them". This is why the authorities don’t give a shit about illegal immigration.
@@jasonfromguitarcenter Eso no lo puedes saber, estas hablando de una suposición sin fundamentos
This is why I laugh when I hear about American politicians complaining about other countries trying to “interfere” in their elections.
100%
Well… that’s America for ya
@@Feashis Absolutely
@@Feashis Bullies and the rest of the world watched and enabled this arrogance to grow beyond measure
Young leaders particularly in Africa are now standing up against this, and I fear that they will be assassinated or toppled to suit America's foreign policy
Who gave America the Big Brother Status?
Americans still think every illegal is Mexican for some reason
" when two neighboring nations fight against each other just know the USA visited one" Nelson Mandela
Incorrect! Visited both, put money in both and than, cut money to one that must be deceived! Mandella was a man from the system. Don't forget!
Exatamente 😅😅🤦♂️
🎯🎯🎯🎯
As a Mexican I’m disappointed you didn’t mention the 1913 coup on President Madero which was carried out with support by the U.S. ambassador to Mexico in order to install General Victoriano Huerta. It instigated a second phase of the Mexican Revolution in which all the warring factions united in order to overthrow Huerta from power.
Successful you won that round, now we just do buissiness and kinda wanna turn you into the new China.
Yeah... That turned into a shit show. "The Ten Tragic Days." After everything that went down Madero actually thought he would be fine after stepping down, exiled but fine... He thought very very wrong.
He didn’t have to do that 😂 quite down Mexicans
The sheer amount of latinx people that have been victimized in one way or another buy the US government over the last 80 years is absolutely staggering. And this happened in both foreign and domestic settings. I’m not just referring in terms of coups but anytime the US has been able to exploit something for the benefit of the country, they have gone for it regardless of any moral objections. Truly it does bring me great fear of what my country is capable of and makes me realize that I’m not built for a world that is capable of such things. I don’t want to support that kind of predatory behavior. Ofc this is only par the course for us a a species and as social creature. I just don’t wanna associate with it any longer should it come to that once again.
@@nickmartin5568 please don’t use the term “Latinx” cuz it’s cringe. Stop trying to anglicize my native language!
As a Chilean I feel sad that the military coup in my country was not presented. Letting history out is one of the few ways to make amends for the brutal damage the US has inflicted on my people.
Yeah, the same for Brazil
there is just no way there is "no solid evidence" of US government involvement in Pinochet's coup. "Operation Condor" is a historical fact accepted even by the US agencies.
There should be a whole video about the Plan Condor only
There are those of us who know and remember, across the world. But also, these voices are actively being silenced. We're at a turning point in history and im very worried we've made the wrong turn.
Have you ever read 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman' by John Perkins? It is a must for every anti imperialist and general history enthusiast
Part of being American is thinking your country is Superman but slowly realizing that it’s actually Homelander
There’s a way you Americans can stop the government and is if you do what the first generation of Americans did to the British in 1775
jingoism!
True
Well its all good and fine when the citizen thinks he is being benefited, it's not good tho when you realize you have nothing, and USA billionaires have it all
Sorry, what’s Homelander ?
This really sounds like the definition of what the devil is.. creates conflicts, tells lies, works in the shadows, make people unhappy, fuel greed etc..
IT IS CALLED DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Freedom Fighters like Obama, Biden and the Cheneys 😮
Look at Soviet Union just as many coups but it’s ok because that’s what we expect right? If they want to destroy us at some point we were going to have to stoop to their level, & the worst part is that Russia is actively meddling in other elections right now
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist
Gaddafi was not captured and killed on the spot. He was inhumanly tortured and humiliated before he was killed.
good
They dragged his dead body through the streets after they captured and killed him. It was on all news stations at the time
I've never seen a leader being humiliated and tortured on live tv like gaddafi
@@ibrahimbukar9521 Samuel Doe of Liberia was tortured and killed on camera.
His own people did....so?
In general, the people who benefitted from these coups were American corporations at the expense of the civilians living in those countries. Also, these coups often crushed political movements that may have increased democracy and/or improved the living conditions of the poor and working class people of those countries. These coups are why Central America is such a dangerous place to live today and why so many people are fleeing to America. The U.S. govt, for the benefit of American corporations, is responsible for today's migrant crisis at the border. Greed.
And that is why American politics is working so hard on convincing the population that outside ppl bad. So that they can crush them even harder.
Yes the poor civilians never benefit ever realize thugs are running the show
And the poor soldiers that "served" their country.
Funny how America fought for independence from Britain because of their colonialism and then went on to do this stuff
@@markironside9818 I mean after that with the Native American and the Black people. Can't say I'm surprised
It baffles me that many Americans still believe their government is doing only good by getting involved in foreign conflicts.
You know the media isn’t going to outright tell the truth to American citizens.
Because in school and TV growing up it is imbedded to us.
the current Israel palestine situation shows how indoctrinated they are.
They’re literally in the comments of this video hating in the replies, like dude have you watched the whole thing, at this point you’re choosing to be ignorant
They are not but they are powerless to stop it
26:59: “It's not like it was a great place under Gaddafi.” Was that meant to be sarcastic? All Libyans had free healthcare, education and a free home for all newlyweds. I imagine a stable place with a great social welfare program is almost the same as living in a endless civil war where their national gold was stolen, there are constant terrorist attacks and open slave markets.
He’s not completely wrong tbh, although we did have all of that, infrastructure was especially poor, there was still a lot of corruption (still way less than today tho) and the death penalty was excessively utilised making it a major point of controversy. The main excuse NATO have for supporting the coup was literally to do with his excessive use of force. So really even tho Libya was much better off under his rule, he could’ve definitely done a better job imo.
There's enough material on this topic (not only the US, but also all the other superpowers) to make a very interesting series. Amazing video!
How did British divide and rule...
Did u get ure money worth off that comment? He didn't even answer u hahahahahhaaha
@@bigkidbarone8507 it's called donating
@@bigkidbarone8507 In case that you're ignorant,It's called donating. Too much youtube grandpa?
It’s no coincidence that the U.S government has always used terrorism operations such remember the Maine , gulf of Tonkin”, operation Northwoods, 9/11, and countless of others to invade Spain territories, Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, etc.
History will remember the U.S government for what it is which is an imperial empire and NOT a “beacon of freedom nor democracy.”
Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
It's truly heartbreaking just how much misery and bloodshed have been forced upon the world. Millions of lives destroyed, resources pillaged, entire nations ruined forever. All in the name of profit and greed, with the aid of taxpayer money, while hiding behind ideals of liberty, democracy and "civilisation".
It seems like Karma is in play 🤗
Grow up kid,it has allways been thus ! A lot of people have reason to be gratefull to The USA,especially its people.
My reletives saw and knew young men go to Europe and never come back along with our own and allies. I have had a good life I will allways be gratefull to people I never knew. Its only when you get old you realise how lucky you have really been.
FUMF
@@philiprufus4427 ofc you can be grateful for having a good life in a decent safe country like America. but in reality that has nothing to do with war at all because war is something not to be grateful for There are a few wars that America did that we should 100% be grateful of like the Civil War, the war that gave us independence wars that helped us. but there are wars where we just go to countries and say that we "help them" but in reality, we just kill innocent civilians and kill our own people in the process wasting a lot of money that could have made our country a better place like having better healthcare system fixing homelessness and adding a better transportation system. and I'm not saying that I am not grateful for what the American people did they did a lot of stuff that I could not imagine like the computer which is one of my favorite inventions. is that I want this country to be a better place and not destroy other countries in the process.
it was much before usa
I think a video on Chile's coup is important, in Latinoamérica this is one of the most widely regarded examples of US meddling in foreign politics.
Would love to see more about that too, it should become common knowledge to people
@@mjolninja9358 Jake Tran made a good detailed video on it. That's where I learned about it.
@@YS-sz2ti yeah I saw that one too, First time I saw it was a documentary by the UA-camr Plastic Pills
@@mjolninja9358
🤨Yeah, Pinochet ( *et al* !) were all just friggin’ *androids* remotely-controlled from a facility in Langley, right??
🙄And _doubtless_, Allende and his comrades were *absolutely* faultless too, right?
Yeah this dude johnny Harris is friggin CIA - there's obv so much evidence for the us backed coup, pinochet waa basically a paid actor of the CIA, Allende was democratically elected.
I mean yes, he's probably not CIA, but even with his trying of doing a video ok the astrocities of the US he's romanticizing capitalist agenda, because he's overlooking facts and trying his best to defend the US - listen to him how he says we have no idea how NATO got involved in Libya.
¡Gracias!
You forgot about Dr Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana in 1966. One of the most important coup of the African continent.
And Sukarno in Indonesia. They killed a MILLION people for literally no reason except appearing on a CIA list...
he has not mentioned other prominent coup d' etats .... JFK for a star.
Which made the dream of a "United State of Africa" impossible till date, the C.I.A declassified the files & now accessible...killing the progress of soo many millions of africans.
He forgot about Ukraine, Georgia, Ukraine again in 2014.
I guess it is just a really big coincidence that as soon as Ukraine got rid of their Russian puppet of a president, Russia took Crimea.
Growing up I was always conflicted with myself on how I felt about our country. You would go to school and learn how America is this great bastion for Truth, Justice, and Democracy. But then you would come home, turn on the news, and slowly realize that none of that was true. That in fact we are the bad guys to the rest of the world. Here’s the situation here in America. We do not live in a democracy. We do not live in a republic. We live in a corporatocracy run by dynastic plutocratic families, corporate oligarchs, and International bankers. They are rooted in self-interest, greed, and power… not Love and Wisdom.
Spot On assessment. 🎯 You summed it up pretty well.
And now they want us their slaves the citizens .
作为中国人只是对美国政府有敌意 和普通人无关
Well stated. Horrible to admit that the presidents are powerless to protect the people because they know they will be treated worse than the external targets that we topple through coups....ask Kennedy and Lincoln did they expect to be assassinated by their own people..
All true, sad but true
Democracy isn't the ideal that many thought it was
As a Guatemalan the multiple coup that the USA has perpetrated have traumatized our country.
I concur,I remember reading a Newsweek decades back and it said "Guatemala and DRC (then Zaire) will never know peace.I wondered how such prediction was coming real every other year.
No arguing this !!!
lol you guys have crippled your own country. Its so convienent to blame big bad USA.. but what about YOUR corrupt officials ?! What about YOUR CORRUPTION ? Your crime... drugs... gangs... its not the USA's fault its your peoples fault. Truth hurts.
@@FadedResolutions Unless you have done research on the subject ... you are really not qualified to argue the subject ... If you had done research on the subject you could not have the same defensive position !!! Sorry ...
@@superdivemaster like i said before, truth hurts.
Thanks
You should include Indonesia. There are declassified CIA documents showing the CIA involvements in Indonesia's 1965 coup. In 1966-67 US gained most control over Indonesian oil & minerals explorations, most notably the once biggest gold mine on earth: the Grasberg gold mine in Papua, Indonesia. Just only recently Indonesia gets 51% share of this mine, previously Indonesia only got less than 4% 👍🏻🇮🇩🏆
He excluded a lot. He is a textbook fig leaf.
100% correct: President Suharto's 30 year reign and the Coup against Indonesia's first democraticaly elected President Sukarno was heavily backed by CIA money and weapons.
@@eimsbush05 Nope. I live in a small Indonesian city called Jogjakarta. Here the infamous Allen Lawrence Pope detained after his B25 bomber (if im not mistaken the bomber type) was shot down by an Indonesian Air Force P51 Mustang during her bombing raid in Ambon island back in the 60s. Even we have a monumental diorama on that excact event, and btw back then in the 90's when i was a kid my dad bring home a pair of dog pup and he named 'em Allen & Pope.
@@eimsbush05what does this mean?
Memang perlu di katakan bahwa tanpa CIA Soeharto nggak mungkin nyorot kekuatan
So much dirt on their hands and they have audacity to say they want democracy
Blood . Not dirt .
Every country meddles in others. Every country acts for their own interests. That how humanity operates
@@Jay_Frank this is a hard concept for them to understand
@@Jay_Frank first of all, false. Secondly, even if that was true, that doesn't it make it right or unpreventable
@@thomaszhang5437 Not false lol
More great stories like this, please. As a Puerto Rican and a person with strong connections to the Caribbean and a love for its history, I weirdly feel seen. A lot of these stories are never spoken of on platforms with the exposure or audience that you have. Thank You!
Great stories like the bullshit about Gaddafi hating Democracy and killing protesters? Go look at how well they were doing with Gaddafi, and then post-Gaddafi. There were open slave markets in one of those time periods, and it wasn't when Gaddafi was in power.
You should consider yourself lucky to be a US citizen.
@@ali.a9083 Yes, I'm so lucky to not be able to get proper healthcare because I'm poor. So lucky.
2014 coup in Ukraine, Nuland is on tape planning it.
@@ali.a9083 Yes so lucky that, Biden just hired 90K extra IRS agents because you have to pay your tax, while your money gets inflated away.. You are so lucky that they coming after the normal people doing a transaction of 600 dollar.
US is becoming a third world country quickly.
Thank you very much for this video. Everyone should know about this. My family was exiled from Guatemala when the coup happened and the country still has not gotten back on its feet. The coup literally plunged my country into decades of civil war
It hasn't because Guatamala is probably controlled by the USA behind closed doors. It seems like there are a lot of issues when a country lets the USA control it. USA literally promote this idea of the right to bear arms, despite it not being a right or a law in that country. That is why all the countries south of the USA, like Gautamala, are experiencing a lot of death by guns, which causes people to leave.
@Chris P are you saying that "the right to bear arms" isn't a right in the U.S or Guatemala? It may not be in Guatemala but it certainly is in the United Statea
@@chrisp7110 you’re partway there; think past right to bear arms that US imposed upon Guatemala and you’re on the right track!
Sill pro America video
No CIA & MOSSAD,No coup
Each coup should be a series on its own. I've watched the whole video without realizing it's almost half an hour long. I'd watch the whole series if it would be made. Thank you JH for this amazing work!
Thank you! It’s true each of these could be a video itself
Would you consider a series on individual coups.
To Harris
@@johnnyharris , I'm SO DOWN to watch a full series on US backed coups... It would be fascinating to dive into each country for 20-25 minutes, explore the history of the country before the coup, the coup itself, and the political aftermath that we are left with today. And then there is a WHOLE other discussion about the Eisenhower administration and coups...
@@johnnyharris it should be and would be worthwhile for any studio/news outlet/video documentary publisher
@@johnnyharris To be honest my country the Philippines has a lot of American influence and we are thankful because of the different way western nations think that seeks logic and truth. The Spaniards were too religious and kept us ignorant. But knowing that the US employs a coup d etat and easily throws a government that does not seem to agree with them, (to me) is like a candle being lit up in the dark. It kinda opened a lot of ideas which I find no longer farfetch.
To give you an example is the previous Duterte government. His strategy was opposite of the previous Aquino government and he is pivoting towards China. In some of his speeches, he will tell crazy tales like he will be overthrown, impeached or even assassinated by the CIA. Many dismissed it because of his popularity and high approval ratings. But thinking about it after watching your video, there's some truth to it. He was a strongman and a strongman was needed to fix and shake the ailing country.
Coups are terrifying, the fact that governments and countries could just dissolve...
Gov is just a group of people. How easy is it to dissolve that? Very.
@Don't Read My Profile Picture Get a job
Even more scary when they happen from within and a bunch of rich tax evaders hijack xenophobe tendencies to avoid upcoming tax bills.
Looking at you Britain.
It also serves as a reminder that people as whole are very easily manipulated
If you control the money you control the world
Thanks!
@Christine how do I get the money?
The US-backed coup in Brazil led to 20 years of torture, assassination and censorship. I actually interviewed one of the guys in the resistance when I was a reporter and he said that the main reason why they didn't fight back was the fact that the US had ships all over the coast and they were outnumbered.
Isn't that what made Brazil crash from relatively developed country to... well, what it is today?
@@cybernetic_crocodile8462Do you mean Argentina? Brazil has never been a developed country.
@@bigerdino Neither was Argentina. All the wealth was concentrated in the hands of a few
Bolsonaros dream to go back to that time 😢😅
@@bigerdino Argentina is dump.
Many Americans still don’t know what the U.S. did to other countries. Thank you for this video, it’s important we talk about history even if we don’t like it.
For Americans this is a new revelation to them.
Naw we know but to stomp out communism we had to we couldn’t do boots on the ground and risk a nuclear war
@@just-some-muslim
Most people are ignorant by design. Who benefits from the general populace being incompetent?
The irony is just monumental. In a country that literally non stop goes on about freedom and democracy and the dangers of brain washing, they are the most brainwashed people by far.
@@just-some-muslim Only for those that have not been paying attention. Sadly, that is most of us. "Ignorance is bliss" should be our motto.
Uruguayan here. I'm I a bit disappointed that Uruguay didn't make the video, nevertheless in real life we usually get sweeped under the carpet. Both my Gradparents spent time in hard labor/concentration camps, and my parents started their early years fatherless. I'm glad someone is talking about this. I think that when an average person thinks of Latin America they usually think of poverty and domestic violence yet usually don't know why. I live in California and there are many great things about the USA, but it also has many problems (like every other country) that it needs to solve. Addressing this is one of them. 🇺🇾🇺🇾
Let’s bring some attention to this then, try and surface this comment.
Nada, hermano. Ustedes nunca son olvidados, lo siento mio español no és muy bueno, salutos de Brazil!
You are right..Most of the world kinda dont understand the influence of Estados Unidos on south American countries.Almoast like C.Columbos statues and history attached to his name.
@@seadfacic2924 🤣🤣🤣
100% agree. My uncle is currently the Charge at the US embassy in Uruguay and I've had discussions with him specifically on US involvement. Johnny was pretty irresponsible with how he handled and breezed over US involvement in Latin America in this video. Pretty pissed off with this video.
I'm Brazilian, and there are some details about the 1964 coup that you didn't mention:
1- João Goulart was not a communist, he was part of a political line called "laborism", which is more nationalist than communist;
2- The 1964 coup was the result of three other coups that the US carried out in Brazil. In 1945, when they overthrew Getúlio Vargas, in 1954 again against Vargas, and in 1961 against Juscelino Kubischek. In 1961, JFK changed the US ambassador to Brazil and he began to waste millions of public dollars on propaganda against João Goulart, which forced the Brazilian government to conduct an in-depth investigation (Research the CIA's links with IPES/IBAD);
3- The coup was aimed at economic interests in Brazil, several US companies made a lot of money from it, CIA agents worked here for many years hunting "communists" and giving classes on torture;
4- The US financed three other coups in Brazil, one in 1989 (rigging the elections for Collor), in 2016 (overthrowing President Dilma) and in 2018 (arresting Lula and rigging the elections for Bolsonaro).
Nice to remember number 4
As a South American I lost my grandfather in the Operation Condor context. He was torture and killed by the militaries backed up by US. We went more than 20 years without a democracy and under a military dictatorship. Nowadays US foreign state use lawfare (at least in South America) to bankrupt companies and directly influence in state affairs .
I was a kid when I saw American soliders and their tanks invading iraq we were under crippling sanctions
@immortal9922 that's because Iraq didn't wanna play ball.
@@1ndN2st saddam hussein was already a cia agent installed by west
@@1ndN2stThe reason for the American invasion of Iraq is even more baseless than the Ukraine war by Russia right now. It is shameful how no one in charge was held accountable
My good man, you're South America is still in shit, because the countries there were always too busy with other things than with economical developement. Oh, a big part pf you're insuccess was "guaranteed" by soviet intervention in that part of the American Continent. I hear now China is continuing the Soviets legacy, there. Corruption and the undereducation of Latin American nations also lead to their situation.
I wish you had covered the Chilean coup a bit more, and there IS rock solid evidence. I was able to even find classified documents about Operation Condor and Chile for the research I had to do for college.
I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't address almost anything about the coups in Brazil and Chile, it just goes to show how the US people don't care about South America.
The horrible effects America has inflicted upon my home of chile is so clear and evident i dont know how anyone could deny it or claim there is no evidence. even recently with the riots.
I am here to ask Johnny for a video on the chilean coup too.
My grandparents had to escape from Chile during Pinochet's reign as refugees with my mom when she was a baby. They watched their country, and their lives get destroyed on September 11th, 1973. My best friends grandfather was also in Santiago when the air force were dropping bombs on La Moneda and besieging the capital. He was later imprisoned at the national stadium and was then taken to the Chacabuco concentration camp where he was tortured. There are so many fucked up stories from other Chileans in my community from that time.
as someone from latin America, they cannot fit everything into one video. He already made videos about Guatemala and Panama. Hopefully in thefuture, they will make those videos.
"Okay, we got to move a little quicker here, or we're not going to get through all these coups."
🤣🤣🤣
Understand why foreign countries have to do how they do know? You ne corrupt and serf "ours' of we will... Democracy lmao. Ome wat or the other we will get a leader in that benefits our elites that should not be. With your money paying for it. Not in your or the nations best interest. Not for the people in that country. Go figure why the world hates us and our muppet states.
there are far more on the list than that....canada was a "soft coup" complete with dual citizenship "Canadian-American" who live here and hold positions of real power.....usually bankster family's kids....canada is being looted worse than any african country and they flood the country with hard drugs and use the profit to buy guns and canadian real estate...our "dollar" is fake and manipulated to make us poorer
He never mentioned the coup in Ukraine in 2014.
He never mention Yugoslavia.
He never mentioned many of the other coups directly made by the US.
He also was talking about some phantom terrorist organisations.
This is obviously an incomplete video, and not a very truthful one.
At least he acknowledged at the start that there’s more he’s not covering. I agree because there’s more in Africa like Congo
You’re right re Ukraine in 2014. If only more ppl knew of this, when a greedy Vogue posing gnome begs USA for billions of dollars, it should be a sign that something stinks !!!
If anything, this whole thing has made me
He’s definitely not depicting USA as a reasonable country of good guys that’s ffs
@@bmsuperstar1 He does this a lot sadly
Great compilation, and I have only one request: I'd like to see the list of coups that fulfilled the criteria, before you reduced it further to the ones you included in the video. Would that be possible?
You left out a big one: Indonesia, twice.
The first attempt to overthrow the left-leaning Sukarno, Indonesia's first president, in 1958 failed instantly after the Soviet Union intervened with the plans.
In mid-1960s, however, General Suharto, backed by the CIA, led the army to oust Sukarno's Old Order and get rid of the Indonesian Communist Party, resulting in the deaths of one million suspected Communists. The CIA campaign has made a long-lasting impact in Indonesian society, and the fear of Communism in the country still runs high to this day.
There are excellent documentaries and books about the '60s coup, among them "The Act of Killing" by Joshua Oppenheimer and "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins. Check them out if you haven't.
yes !!!! 😩
this coup was also used within the CIA as an example of how anti-communist coups were supposed to be conducted and the 'Jakarta method' was implemented in many asian and latin american countries afterwards. To understand how and why the US facilitated so many coup d'etats in the post-war period you really need to look at this one first.
"Jakarta is coming."
ua-cam.com/video/167LMeLw7FQ/v-deo.html
@@hendricahyana full audiobook! :) ua-cam.com/video/gOZY-Mt1ciE/v-deo.html
I was very surprised he chose not to cover Indonesia, as it underpins so many of the others.
Quite disapointed that you didn't add Argentina's last dictatorship which was a huge part of the condor plan lead by the US like you did with Chile and Brasil but so glad you cover other countries as well. My grandfather disappeared on 1976 when the coup started so if you have any questions, i'll be glad to answer :)
as Argentinian I agree 100%, we all know that US was behind the coups. Also until these years through the IMF which is controlled by US and they approve unpayable credits only to US friendly presidents (like Mauricio Macri). Thats the new way of coup: economic.
Same here. Hope he does an entire video about the Plan Condor.
The coups in Brazil, Argentina and Chile were above all organized by their own military forces. Just the same way as populist phenomena like Peron or Bolsonaro are home grown. The CIA was certainly supportive, but not at all the driving force that it was in Iran, and Plan Condor was not really central. If you do not root out the fascism in your own society, the same mistakes will happen.
Same, there’s so much stuff that wasn’t mentioned. I’m glad people are giving push back in the comment section, because the reality is most Americans aren’t even aware of these coups.
Everyone commenter ever "can't believe that the coup US led on x country wasn't talked about by him".
Jesus. Calm down.
How did you skip Argentine and Uruguay? with Kissinger fingers at the same time with
the heads of Montoneros Tupamaros, at the same time mobilizing Armies of both countries
the Called Operaciòn Condor.
Too many U.S. coups to mention them all...
The US wasn't indirectly involved in either the Uruguayan Coup of 1973 or the Argentine Coup of 1976. They were certainly pleased with the results, for a while Argentina supplied military advisors to US backed repressive regimes in Central America, teaching torture and CRW methods.
@@Jonathan-d8d7i "wasn't indirectly involved, just trained the military in clandestine operations and the playbook of doing a coup" I'm assuming it was a typo, but I'm from Brasil and here was indirect involvement as in they just said that if the coup went bad they'd sent an aircraft carrier and pushed the idiots in the army to actually act, besides the training and financial support of operation condor. But Argentina was definitely more direct, kinda halfway to the style that happened in Chile. The US is definitely the most terrorist and criminal organisation of the 20th century
@@zedascouve2180 OK we could quibble about what constitutes direct and indirect assistance but in the case of the 1964 coup in Brazil it is absolutely clear that Vernon Walters played a very direct and influential role in effecting the coup. He travelled up and down the country bolstering support amongst the military and providing them with guarantees of military and diplomatic support. It's arguable that many if not most would have lacked the courage without the green light from the US.
Argentina in 1976 was already a shit show (a near perpetual state of affairs) although it would get infinitely worse under the junta. I have seen no evidence that there was direct involvement by the US in the coup itself. Operation Condor is a quite separate topic.
Quite agree about the old Estados Unidos criminal culpability. A cheer was raised along with several glasses in this household the day that Kissinger died.
Cara, eu morei no Brasil, gastei muito tempo lá e conheço bem o país e sua história.
Um abraço
J
@@Jonathan-d8d7i yeah, you are right, I guessed i mixed things up, just get really upset with this topic.
Haha I also cracked a beer and put some political songs from these times, specially the hopeful ones, when Kissinger finally went to sit on Satan's lap.
Posso perguntar de onde você é?
Abraço
The Dulles brothers were primarily responsible for those coups in the 50s and 60s. By the way that small town outside of Miami was homestead
A follow-up video including failed coups would be legendary
And where would we be today if coups had failed like Iran 1953 and Ukraine 2014
@@davidayers5173 i dont know. You tell me
hopefully the failed psy ops and lawsuits vs a USA political opponent will go down as a failed coup. people need to wake up because what our government has done to countless other countries (seen in this video) it'd doing to the republican party now
To follow up on the Chilean coup that is really interesting because out of the coups on here, it was the only one with political hits on American soil.
Just two years ago in Venezuela? lol 😅
I'm surprised no American leader past or present has faced a court of law for war crimes.
I’m surprised that the USA is not a member of the ICC (international criminal court)
with the amount of money they make off these wars, the law cannot touch them
sadly in this world, money=power, and they are very very powerful lol.
@@jeroxis9975 Today they would but they hide them behind so much Garbage and rhetoric that we dont learn the true evil they committed until that president is long dead
@@jeroxis9975 God can!
Court of law for war crimes is only for countries development and Russia loooool
Imagine if this was a full list. It would be hours long.
Yeah for example the last coup attempt in turkey
@@SixWasTakenThat’s actually not the US’s fault. Turkey has a history of military coups against governments that espoused politics that weren’t secular because of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s policy of tasking the army with upholding state secularism. That and Turkey has not had any significant length of time where genuine democracy existed
@@SixWasTaken Actually, i think the most recent was Pakistan, where the US ousted Imran Khan.
@@rileykaiseeker4294 I think usa should start doing something called mind your own business
@@Edmonton-of2ec genuine democracy doesnt work well for turkey like russia and Most of the coup attemps are fully paid for by the US government and its obvious enough that i am surprised you didnt know. I suggest u research more
"At the center of every disaster is a man from Harvard University." -Thomas Sowell
I’m from Chile living in the US since I was 10. I am 28 now and I’ve always hear of the crazy stuff that went down with Pinoche, I was excited to hear about this but then it got cut off. Sad. Would love to hear more in-depth about what happened and the US’s role in it. It’s very interesting! Love your videos!
You should watch the video “cybersocialism” by plasticpills
As a chilean myself, I really hope Johnny, Iz, and their team include some of the CIA redacted documents when they release this story
te recomiendo el libro "the pinochet file" de peter kornbluh.
Second Thought has a decent video on it, it's called something like "The US doesn't interfere with foreign affairs"
@@maxyork1175 you are irrelevant, nobody cares about Chile .
You're creating a gem of history. No countries dare put this history into their textbooks. Really appreciate your works
Except he put propaganda crap at the end, as if Russia meddling with Trump elections was a bad thing, heck, do it again then, I bet US currently will welcome another 4 years of Trump, Hillary have been a disastrous foreign minister, thank God she lost, nearly won because her husband got a blow job(none from her own accolades). So mentioning the propaganda is completely useless, not even effective and nearly got world peace for a change.
The man that made this video is a Democrat that's why he didn't mention the 2014 takeover of Ukraine Victoria nuland CIA controlled by the Democratic Party the modern Ukrainian government control the Democratic Party it's a direct result of that 2014 takeover
In the video is said that the coup in Libya (as far as we know it is Franco-British) is a NATO-American coup. very serious thing to say. naturally the video does not report the sources despite an accusation of such gravity
can’t even do this in Canada.
@@Cacciatore_Raccoglitore en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Libya
Great research and presentation.
Many people are shocked by the fact Americans don't know what America did, but what I am shocked by more is how all the world's countries get mass reprimand and backlash for even the slightest of mistakes and errors (let alone declarations of war, war crimes, accusations of propaganda etc.) but the US is just allowed to walk off without any punishment time and time again.
Because we play a vital role in the world economy and we are the worlds one super power pretty simple if you ask me
That's very entitled and selfish of you, man@@james6208
@@james6208 might makes right. Also why a lot of non-western citizen sees western values as a crude joke. They don't value human rights, just for their own.
The U.S. is still top-dog. It also helps that the U.S. is still better.
@@johnnotrealname8168 Economically speaking, not better than China anymore.
I’m so glad this channel exists!
Big Dogs Gotta Eat , Glad Yo Shit Exist
@@-AyeYallThereGoLaFlare- so youre the shit?
Me2 .
THE DUDE IN THE MOTEL THROWIN UP THEM VICE LORD GANG SIGNS 💪IN ALABAMA IS FROM WHERE I BE BOUT 35 MINUTES OUTSIDE OF BR HE GOT A CRAZY
You should see hasans cover of this video cause he dont really talk about the gravity the coups forexempel the chilean coup and hes so bias toward even saying libya was not a better place under gaddafi when it was
i remember a guy waving off the entire middle east, saying 'they are always killing each other over there' and i remember how much it pissed me off bc of exactly this. Such ignorance towards the crimes of the US (and the brits too) and what an easy and disgusting way to view those that suffered most.
“They’re always killing each other over there” is such a wild statement considering it’s more of they’re always killing us over there (and vice versa) and we’re too busy killing each other back home to care 😂
Has that guy seen how many shootings there are in the U.S? Seems kind of hypocritical to say something like that
@@yousifalbofradi7837 Note that a lot of the middle east and latinamerican shootings is done with American guns
Have you looked into the history of the Middle East pre 9/11? They really were just killing each other lol. The Shia vs Suni conflicts have impacted almost every Muslim nation
Its funny, because in Damascus up until today usually you have mosques just next to churches, sometimes they get out from prayer and salute each other, handshake and before the covid even kiss, check on eachother matters and very respectfully go to their work.
In the areas where the US supported like pakistan Jihad was created, in Syria u see the same groups controlling the local matters now under the freedom name, and they literally have signs that say "democracy is the weapon of the west don't be fooled" and unsurprisingly u don't see Christians out there.
Thanks for the US for their democracy and values but we won't buy them.
Also point out that Netenyahu came to Congress and lied about the hidden weapons in Iraq.
I’ve been waiting for this one Johnny.. I’m in college getting ready for my journalism internship and your content is boundary pushing for these new generations. There’s something happening here
Why would you enter a lost art? Journalists are just shills for corporations at this point.
Freedom of the press is integral to democracy and the people. Don't forget how critically important that is if you get "in the biz." You will get lots of hate for being "the media" by authoritarian sympathizers. Stay strong.
Yep, for those willing to see it's not very hard to connect the dots.
Don't sell out, bro.
🎵But what it is, ain't exactly clear...🎶
I'm glad Johnny overviewed these, getting the truth that these coups happened is good. However, I think most of us would've happily watched an hour+ long video that at least did each event justice by giving SOME detail and analysis.
Me too
If only could afford to make hour long videos 😢
@@johnnyharris couldn't you just do it for the people who's lives were/are being destroyed by these practices?
Money shouldn't always be the reason bro
@@adambuss654why not support him instead of criticising, and he did several video about some of theses coups as mentioned in the video and some of them are the best on those topic.
@@Voyager150 my point was mainly formed from his comment about his ability to afford it, but I'm sure if he was to write it off as a business loss, it wouldn't be the worst thing...
However, it's given me the idea for a Johnny Harris iceberg for anyone who feels like he should dive deeper into a topic..
Anyways, much love for his efforts, but as I said, money shouldn't always be the reason, bro
Ths video did a great disservice to Gaddafi. Not one mention of the fact that the coup revolved around the use of their own currency and not the dollar. Ask HRC.
Single phone call by Lady Rothschild to Hilary Clinton complaining Tut Tut about Gadaffi's Pan African bank to compete with the Rothschilds financing everybody. Hilary couldn't jump high enough to take down Gaddaffi ! And now millions of sub Saharan Africans have migrated thru unbordered Libya to Europe to go onto social benefits.
Ask kissinger.
johnny boy is an apparatchik propagandist of usa leftists
The Gold Dinar that he was going to put into play with the coalition from Africa. Debt based system can have that, so now he becomes a “terrorist.”
@@0onpoint more lies
Conveniently doesnt mention coup in Ukraine where there is phone conversation of US reps (agents) talking how they are financing and orchestrating the coup.
Al Capone was simply outclassed.
Al Capone was small potatoes a criminal yes but small that’s why the big fish took
Him down
The US is the godfather of all mafias! The gold standard for organized crimes! Also, the stories that this guy tells is a sugar-coated version of the vices that the has US committed! The true scope of the US’s crimes is much more vicious and evil!
If the mob mafia finds a way way to make money illegal and the government finds out about it. They adapt to that idea and use it on the nation. United States congress is todays mafia mob. Anything to rob this country blind even if it means taking the country down.
For a country (or at least government, I know a lot of its citizens are not aware of what their leaders are doing!) that claims to be the "World's Police", they do have this uncanny knack of picking probably the worst people to endorse to the throne of those countries where they establish a coup. Somehow, after all these, they make things worse for those directly involved and sometimes it even comes back to bite them.
A bit like the real American police I guess... ruling through terror and arbitrary violence, accountable to no-one but themselves
America as the world's police makes a lot of sense if you look at the current state of American policing
Well in my country some people called American a "world police" that make Sense replace a dictator to another dictator in name democracy
Most interesting how long America can survive without "military interference influence another big arms dealer" while Chinese play debt trap in the name Economic and investment
Facts.
don't know why the US keeps doing this shit when more than half the time it backfires on them
I’m appalled by all the shitty and shady things my country has done. All of it was curiously absent from all my history textbooks 📚
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ما تم ذكره في الفيديو هو أمور بديهية بالنسبة لنا ..
Every country does this shit. US is just the most powerful in the world so they do a little more than others. It's a tale as old as time.
Peru / CIA involvement
At least 49 civilians were killed in clashes with the police or military during protests after President Pedro Castillo was impeached last December when he tried to dissolve Congress and rule by decree, according to figures from the country’s ombudsman’s office.
A New York Times investigation in March found that in three towns where deadly clashes occurred, the police and soldiers had fired shotguns at civilians using lethal ammunition, shot assault rifles at fleeing protesters and killed unarmed people, often in apparent violation of their own protocols.
Idk where u live but we learned about everything in this video
Great information and great delivery good job thank you
As a Thai who learn the history of my own country during the Cold War, I can confirm that the States also got themselves involved in our politics as well.
As an Indonesian, I thought Thailand never got involved in any political nonsense, the US definitely got their hands on in Indonesia in the 60s, throwing the 1st president Soekarno out of office and backed the "coup" general Soeharto into office. The reason? you all probably could've guessed it. Yep, communism. I'm surprised Johnny didn't put this in, but that's probably because the lack of evidence and sources regarding the US involvement, but we all definitely knew they're definitely involved real deep
In Israel to overthrow Netanyahu too led by Obama.
@@p.millard557 Brian is not a source to be trusted, and this is coming from a Thai who loathed US imperialism
They are trying in my country as well.. in 1975 it was direct CIA Involvement of the killing of Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation .. after almost 50 years now they are trying to overthrow his daughter from power.
Thailand is on the Heartland Ring, that's why the US has had so many military actions around that overall region and still does a permanent large scale training operation named Cobra Gold (I was part of that 😂 the jungles of Thailand are freaking hot when you got 60 pound of gear on and you've been hiking through dense jungle all week long).
Look up 'Makinders Heartland Theory' to understand why the Heartland Ring is so important. That section of the world is the largest chunk of land mass globally and the US does alot of things on the Heartland Ring as part of a policy of containment, deterrent and rapid deployment incase China or Russia attempt to send a large force into Europe, Southern Asia, Middle East or Africa. It's a remnant of WW2/Cold War paranoia.
Think about it, Japan (bases), South Korea (bases/war), Vietnam/Laos (war), Thailand (permanent large military training operations), Afghanistan (war), Iraq (war), Turkey is NATO, Eastern Europe (major missile defense system). It's all the Heartland Ring. Look up 'Makinders Heartland Theory' there are plenty of videos about it here on You Tube
Thanks! Very educational for the people who don’t know how the US became what it is now.
It also got there by having 2 coastlines,a more democratic system than was normal at the time(hence why so many Europeans fled to the USA,eventualy including men like Einstein who enriched it),an abundance of natural resources,by being too far away to suffer war on its home soil,by not oppressing ideas at home which allowed for greater creativity(except for instances like McCarthyism) and generally a culture of innovation and criticism. Not just via barefaced theft,obviously.
The significancr of two huge coadtlines by the way is in part the resistancr to potrbtial invasion and ease of ability to have a strong navy. Basicslly
Wrong about Chile. Heaps pf evidence that was a CIA backed coup. Pinochet was lead by the CIA. .
As as African, the Lumumba coup is the most painful 😢 DRC has never risen close to its full potential. Africans and our leaders need to wake up!!! ✊🏾
It's so sad, Patrice Lumumba could have been the kind of statesman President Mandela was. There's a university named after him in Russia. Most famous student? Carlos the Jackal.
They are waking up. Burkina faso and Mali are on the way
African leaders also want to exploit dr congos resources
African countries have been severely affected by powers. The french did worse and are still doing it. Slavery has not yet been completed uprooted.
If they wake up they get killed, and they know it
Slight correction : "Coup" probably doesn’t refer to a punch. In french, coup is short for "coup d’État", to which État means "state", but coup probably doesn’t mean "punch" in this context. There is this expression "coup monté" which means "organized plot", and "dans le coup" which means "part of the plot". In this case, "coup" refers to "plot". So, "a state plot" is probably a more accurate translation.
Throwing off goverment
you should make a whole video about Operation Condor tbh, that shit was WILD. For those who don't know, it was a series of coups all around south america during the 70s and 80s, and go WAY deeper than that brief part he mentioned with chile.
You can even check how many of the dictators and generals involved went to the School of Americas in Giorgia, US.
Hilarious how the US did this in so many countries, yet the government expects us to not believe they couldn't do it here with JFK. Great videos, earned a subscriber.
Or a recent/future election
they've been puppets ever since
@oyunome ok who was the person who should of won the last election?
It's widely know now that they knew he was going to be assassinated, but lots of folks in intelligence wanted him dead so they did nothing to stop it.
look how they slandered other leaders in other countries, then look at what happen to trump,, hmmmm,,
Fun Fact: Sadam Hussain was also put into place by the US government. He was meant to keep a certain country busy by attacking them (sry, I don't remember if it was Saudi Arabia or Iran) , this way US businesses were free to plunder the oil fields in Kuwait without any competitions. For his efforts, the US had promised him help, getting his very own oil springs, but as usual, they forgot about that. And so, Hussain turned around and attacked Kuwait to get the promised oil wells, the very oil wells the US claimed for themself and thus Hussain became enemy No1.
Where’s the source? BBC? lmao, Saddam Hussain was brave leader not your US puppet that’s why they killed him in first place
Yes this was a hilarious fact.
And Saddam Hussein want to nationalize the oil company, so his country could be as rich as the Uni Emirates.
@derrickbridges2611 Actually back then (being the economically backwards, not too industrialized Ottoman Empire) there weren't really oil pumps in the Middle East if any at that time.
Another fact, this one not a coup: during WW2, both the British (their empire too?) worked together to make the Nuclear Bomb. You might guess what happened next. The U.S. ripped Britain off and claimed the thing for themselves, and that's how Britain ended up as the third country to officially get nukes.
Excelente Trabajo informativo e investigativo😊
As an Indonesia, you need to talk about how US backed the coup of Soekarno that eventually become the method they used in all of Latin America, and they named it Jakarta method
Yes and they did the operation twice, second one between 1994-1998, some will said 1996-1998 but the tips from CIA to several conglomerate started from 1994. Jakarta method, in Jakarta, twice.
didnt they fund and support the seperstist that led to the creation of East Timor Leste?
@@muhammadradhivan8436 I can very well see a third time in the future if our country remain or becomes too friendly with China. Third times a charm right?
@@MsHarunaMoon third time will be easier as many business in Indo are duopoly or triopoly by big company. CIA just need to get 1-2 of them greedier than ever then hits then collapse.
@@mcfragger2605 Many agencies were involved in East Timor, the speculation is US and Australia are definitely involved, Australia is more involved at least even more in recent years because of natural gas. Although this matter isn't really known substantially by the general public of Indonesia, they know about the invasion and the general figures involved, but nothing much more than that
"To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal"
You should be thankful the USSR didn’t come out on top.
It's exactly what the indigenous tribes of the Americas learnt on their way to extinction at the hands of the US cavalry.
Obviously, the US made some unjustified and terrible options. The thing is, people (like you did now) took Kissinger's quote out of context.
Quoting someone:
_The context is advice Kissinger was giving the Nixon administration on handling the leader of a South Vietnamese coup:_
_"Nixon should be told that it is probably a goal of (Johnson’s Defense Secretary) Clifford to remove Thieu (South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu) before Nixon takes office. One should tell Nixon that if Thieu suffers the same fate as Diem, the nations of the world will learn that being America's enemy may be dangerous, but being America's friend is fatal.”_
_In short, he’s saying exactly the opposite of what the misquote is trying to claim. The quote likes to pretend this is Kissinger describing reality. In fact, Kissinger is describing an alternate reality that should not be tolerated (and wasn’t). It’s the difference between science and science fiction..._
_NOTE: His advice was followed. The Nixon administration made no effort to end Thieu’s regime, so Thieu remained head of South Vietnam until moments before it fell in 1975._
_I’d say, consider this deliberate deception the next time you read anything written on [the internet] by someone who likes to misquote Kissinger, because it shows they’re willing to bend truth until it breaks._
Very interesting. I'm all for making who was responsible to be responsible, but when you have two evils and have to pick one to defend - it makes sense to go with the lesser evil (which clearly is not Putin). Then again, it depends on what context and who's involved ... and some people love to overgeneralize which I hate.
NOT anymore , with China , Russia and the Asia rising , collectively make a force much bigger than the US . America won't dare to attack non of these countries.
@@DanielKolbin Nevertheless, yours is still a personal opinion.
Thanks for making this video John. I dont think alot of Americans know how much destruction that the American government has caused in other countries on there dime. Keep up the great work.
They hide behind the lives of women and children on their true motives when they invade a country.
Im 21, we dont. They not only dont tell us, many signs point to the information being explicitly supressed. Very few amongst my generation know even some of the crimes of our government, but they want to know. Never let us forget
Its being done against the USA as well.
@ordinary name 🤮
Trust me i know, it’s very frustrating. The same things that we preach we don’t allow others to have… Freedom. Our sins don’t just evaporate into thin air, We will have to face them soon enough :/
What a great video! Thank you so much for sharing and opening our eyes.
Major General Smedley D. Butler was the most highly decorated Marine prior to Chesty Puller taking the record after Butler's death in 1940. Butler fought in the Philippine-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution and World War I. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, Central America, the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in World War I.
He wrote a short essay titled, "War Is A Racket" that is available to read online. It details the true nature of war (*all* war) and shows how the average soldier is deceived into thinking they are fighting for some noble cause, like freedom. I highly recommend it.
Funny you made this comment about Butler. He actually was asked by secret societies (Bush and Walker and other big industrialists) to perform a coup to overthrow Roosevelt and install a nazi government. This is actually real! It's called the Business Plot.
The U.S was behind the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine hence the current conflict of today..
It is a book that truly changed my perspective on the world. It’s also only like 50 pages so a great quick read.
so crazy to see all these people know about smedley and also have read his book......and still support sending foreign aid to ukraine
He also went on to foil the Business Plot, a plan funded by powerful elites in the US to enact a coup against FDR. Fascinating guy all around
My understanding was that Libya was actually pretty good under Gaddafi. It most certainly is worse now than it was. Maybe that's an interesting topic? Is all of this chaos actually good? What would have happened if things had gone otherwise?
A Libyan colleague told me that Gaddafi (he said that, not Libya) had paid for his higher education in Britain.
@@BillDavies-ej6yeit's actually true. Libya at that time sponsor every student at foreign
1. That applies to literally every country, even if one is a violent dictator removing him causes a power vacuum, political stability is the most important factor to country prosperity.
2. Libya is not a nation state like most euro countries, you have to look at the different ethnic group within them and how their treated. He may of been good to the Arab majority but he treated the taureg and Berber native groups like absolute shit and they are the ones who rebelled. Same applies to saddam who treated the Kurds like absolute shit but if u ask an Iraqi Sunni Muslim they’ll say he was the kindest leader ever lol.
@@jbatts834 How does the US treat Black people?, they are not even Black, but no one gets called dictator in US?
I believe he is a good leader only the US portraits in other way
Those who are most vocal about defending human rights have turned out to be the deadliest murderers of innocent civilians.
- Wang Wenbin
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Stalin, who cannot in any way be suspected of liberalism, remarked with irony: "I always thought that democracy is the power of the people, but Comrade Roosevelt clearly explained to me that democracy is the power of the American people." And Stalin was still cunning - democracy is not the power of the people, and not even the power of the American people, but the power of the Democratic Western Cult.
@@monaliza3334 The faces of those who they elect change but the policy's and main descion making never changes.
It's to give the people the illusion that they are in control.
American democracy.
(In 2014 america overthrew Ukraines democratically elected president, and put their puppet in, zelensky.
People don't understand the Russia/Ukraine was a deliberate plan. Theirs more to the picture that it seems at first glance...
@@monaliza3334 Well put 👌
you never been so true lol
O dono deste canal trabalhando pra eles. Não esquenta dono do canal, você também, "não terá nada e será feliz". Tolo, agente do caos!!!
You missed Angola.... It's a big one! They found oil.... The rest is history but south Africa helped Namibia in a border dispute but soon they found out they were fighting against American weapons and a much more resourceful army....
Angolan actual regime was actually one of the few that managed to survive US coups. Cuba and URSS entered the civil war and prevented the coup from happening, just like in Sirya today. The US was supporting the opposition rebels lead by Savimbi.
He should have mentioned Rwanda and Burundi.
The amount of likes your comment got shows how easily it is to spread misinformation
@@1individeo
Yes .
@@1individeo People don't care enough to know the truth. America was at that time covertly supporting the apartheid regime here in South Africa in our wars in Namibia, Mozambique and Angola as well.
I understand why it bothers you, but the reality is that between only 1946 and 2000 USA was involved in 81 coups. I will look up the angola coup after this video, but i think it would be unrealistic to expect him to go indepth on every coup USA was involved in only half an hour
Hi Johnny. You can add 1980 Turkey coup to the list. Although Turkey has been a NATO ally, the country didn’t have an open market. The evidence of US involvement is a phone call from a US general saying “Our boys did it.” Following the coup, a manager from the World Bank became prime minister. Turkey opened its market and started building expensive infrastructure on foreign debt.
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You have mentioned just one coupe. Turkey had their leaders forced to resign about every 10 years after 1960. Unfortunately, every leader whoever wanted to work for the people of Turkey was forced to resign one way or the other. US is using Nato to conquer the world but US is being used by some elites so our enemy isn’t the nations, countries or religions or etc.
Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma too as the encirclement of China. Then Afghanistan war also used to encircle Russia. Syria Libya, Iran, Iraq war are too well known. Lies. Larceny, false flags, are often used.
The USA public were cheated all the time.
Woah I just learned something new
He doesn't accurately cover anything later than the 1970s because the goal of this video is to be controlled dissent, not a truth teller. His Story Producer, Rafaela Siewert (with the second billing under his own name), is literally the Associate Podcast Producer for the Council on Foreign Relations.
One of my favorite sayings I've learned so far...... "If you walk past a body of water and there's two fish fighting in a pond be sure an Englishman just walked by" 🤷🏾♂️
Sadly, so much of the world still falls for it. The current crisis in Ukraine, all the Ukrainian and Russian suffering there? An Anglo or three walked by, did a little meddling. Or a lot.
Pretty dumb saying considering fish always fight
I used to have Chinese fighting fish
Well said the English are involved.
@@XXXTENTAClON227It's not that dumb if you understand the nature of the Englishman
United States of America is really the cancer of the world
Awesome job, thank you. Would've loved to hear more about the coup against Chile.
Costa Rica's international airport, Juan Santamaria, was named after our national hero. He was immortalized during the war between Costa Rica and the Southern Confederacy of America during the 1850s. Colonel Schlessinger invaded Costa Rica and was defeated at the Second Battle of Rivas in April 1856. The defeat came after an army drummer, Mr. Juan Santamaria, advance towards a building commanded by American forces, mortally hit by multiple bullets, he set the building on fire before he deceased. The statue of the man with a torch at Costa Rica's airport is him, our hero, Mr. Juan Santamaria.
The was no Southern Confederacy of the United States in the 1850s. The Southern Confederacy was formed in response to the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
It's honestly so heartbreaking to see the lengths USA has gone to, to get what they want. They had no business doing half of these things, getting hundreds of thousands of civilians killed in the process, the 'right' thing was never their focus, it was money.
Are you really that naive? Everything has always been about the money, forever! Duh, it makes the world go round.
@@sextond I mean I'm only 19 yrs old, and grew up in India, so I had a skewed perspective on rhe world to begin with. So yeah ig I was and still am pretty naive.
@@sextondwhat a cynical and simplistic answer...
@@RitvikivtiRthey had no business doing any of these things. great that we have now the means to educate ourselves.
It's not about the US, it's about men with power who want more power. Other nations throughout history have done the same, it's just the US turn ATM. China is not doing any better currently, Europeans have done it, hell even African nations have done it in the past when they reigned. The casualties are the masses who really want to live a peaceful life, and are sold the dream of democracy.
My country is been in a coup and it's been over two years. Life has been suffering and people turned into ashes. It felt like we've been left alone with little to no help , where resistance deplete over time and becoming one of the most dangerous country to visit in the world. To be seen on a video in this channel for a second or two brings a smile to my face
Can you please tell, which country you live in? Or it would be in some way dangerous to do so? If you cannot tell more, just don't answer, no problem.
Might be Myanmar
@@suviram.1901 no it's 2 years for Myanmar
@@danielmichalski94 It's Myanmar
@@galea2623 thanks for the correction, forgot that it's already 2023
Noriega was the BAD GUY? It’s like the USA - the kettle - calling the skillet black.
"In Search of Enemies" is an excellent book about the Angola Coup written by John Stockholm, an ex CIA agent that was directly involved with its operations. I highly recommend this for anyone interested in America's coups
as a brazilian would like to remember the coup in brazil was not just about military and political support during the coup. after it cia trained our military and economists to keep power. They teach how to torture - the same torture they used in Vietnam. This resulted in even children - some 4/5 years-old - being tortured, arrested, and exiled. The military called them little terrorists
I feel for you man, the same happened in Pakistan.
@@cigarmonkey Jani idrr kidrr 😂
The list goes on and on ... anyone who doesn't see the truth ... has no real knowledge about how the U.S. has destroyed so much !!!
USA Warmongering bloodshed lies profit from sales of weapons of death ☠️💀 , Greed, oppression, bombing, evils plan, evil 👿 Criminals, Genocide acts has no End, no shame And it keeps getting Worse!!!!
@@SajSajidmk You are correct ...
Libya was a better place under Qaddafi or Western media & govts never wanted people to know this so they painted him as ferocious guy. It is mind-boggling that guys like Johnny Harris, well educated, well informed, knows how to do research has fallen under this trap of western media and govts.
I fully agree.
Johnny saying “so the US feels they like it must get involved to save these protestors”… 🙄 I honestly don’t know if Johnny, knowing everything he knows about US involvement in the world for such a long time, is actually still that naive or ignorant, or is he aware but afraid of openly criticizing the US because it’s a relatively “recent” event? “But it’s not like it was a great place under Qaddafi”. Really Johnny? Who decides what a “great place” is? What place do other countries have to use that as an excuse to invade and kill people? And what role did Qaddafi’s wish to have an African currency, backed by gold and completely independent of the US dollar play into his assassination? For a research journalist, you seem to be not doing a great job there.
Also, where is the evidence that Russia interferes with US elections? Or are you falling for the narrative that CIA-backed corporate media is telling you, Johnny? Much like how the US in the past, like you’ve demonstrated here, have used the media as a tool to demonize countries and their “dictators” to justify US foreign policy?
Lastly, when are you going to wake up to the role of the US in Ukraine, especially in the coup in 2014 and most importantly in what is happening now with Ukraine and Russia? For someone who understands the power and danger of narrative very well, as you have shown with your videos many times, you seem to be totally oblivious on this war with Russia that is totally what the US desired for a long time. Research what Hillary Clinton and Condoleeza Rice have said about that. You can do better, Johnny.
If history doesn’t teach you to be extremely skeptical of every narrative that the US is putting out there when it comes to each and every other country in the world, what’s the point? What did we learn then? How do we break this cycle as a people?
He often comes across to me as extremely gullible and the only reason he is correct on many things is simply because he is contrarian.
Many of his videos are biased. Been you realise this, you can't take what he says too seriously.
It wasn't difficult to "paint him as ferocious" because it is a fact that he was a tyrant who did a lot of damage to neighboring countries, regardless of the benefits he brought to Libya.
Have you heard of the Abu Salim massacre, or did they not mention that on RT?
Great work, Johnny!
Coming from one of this countries, where the effect of all this are still present today, is really hard to explain. Americans have no idea that most of the issues we face today, in Latin America in particular, are a different consequence of US foreign policy.
They grow up with loads of propaganda that they’re the good guys. With their dwindling education system aiding in that effort.
it effects everyone but the ones in power.
johnny, been watching you for over a year now, this has gotta be one of your best videos. the map making and editing is so good. story telling and all was beautiful. I really enjoyed this one!
Except that he repeated the totally-debunked 'Russia collusion' hoax just because he hates Trump. Johnny is not consistent, and he lost a lot of credibility with that. In fact it's been quite well-documented ever since that it was Hillary that colluded with foreign interests to stop Trump and not the reverse. I won't be returning to this channel, which is a shame because Johnny made many great points but fell totally, horribly off the rails with that last jab at Trump. And he is totally wrong on the Ukrainian situation, too.
It’s no coincidence that the U.S government has always used terrorism operations such remember the Maine , gulf of Tonkin”, operation Northwoods, 9/11, and countless of others to invade Spain territories, Vietnam, Cuba, Iraq, etc.
History will remember the U.S government for what it is which is an imperial empire and NOT a “beacon of freedom nor democracy.”
Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.
@user-mf9ff4iu5d Chi Na is the world 💩💩 country
It’s always weird when everyone knows the dark past of different countries, but everyone just lives on like it didn’t happen.
Ask me why I would care?
@@LittleSaladBar You're the problem.
They still have Power
What are we supposed to do with the information though?
@@LittleSaladBar you should know if your country feeds on the deaths of others, so you know if you are a beast or a decent human. No murican is a decent human 😂
I’m expecting Haiti to be on the list but I just started. This is a dope video!
This had me in tears, how America acts like they don’t know what they caused around the World
dUMELA NGWANESHO.............from Bronkor SA
If we wouldn’t have best believe others would’ve done it. For example, China in the current present or the British, Spanish, French, Japanese, and Dutch in the past. America introduced globalism and helped millions out of poverty. America has done good as well. When America isn’t in power, I’m sure most people will miss the days she was.
@@armandohermoso5070 it’s big business to demonize the US. I just hope it doesn’t destroy the US. Most of what is said about the US is common from other countries - China - Russia - Saudi Arabia-Great Britain ect.. it’s easy to blame the US for all of the worlds problems instead of taking a look at countries leadership.
@@armandohermoso5070And killing millions upon millions. Get off your high horse gringo
@@armandohermoso5070That doesn't make it right and there is no way you can valid that assertion.
It was evil action by USA in places they had no business being at the expense of the people that live there.
No wonder Central and South Americans are fleeing there. They were promised freedom and their countries were broken instead...
Imagine being upset about what China (even Russia) are allegedly doing (trying to take over as the world's #1) then also ignoring the horrific things the US and UK have done to get to where they are
How many bombs has China dropped in the last 40 years?
Zero.
Exactly if you complain about Tibet give back Hawaii first and the California and Texas to Mexico etc
Well said
@@NeostormXLMAX no lol
Most sheeple cant comprehend these facts, MSM is also involved with all these coups.
The removal of Lumumbua really hurts for me, as a Black American. I can only imagine how the Congo, or even the entire continent of Africa would be if it hadn’t been for foreign intervention. He could’ve truly changed the trajectory
Facts
Now the US and its western allies are demonizing China's BRI project which will probably be the last chance for Africa to really make changes and get rid of everlasting poverty
Did not mention either than the United Nations General Secretary aircarft was shutdown during his negotiation in Congo....there is not a single act,,,not one that as a terrorist act has not been done or enacted by the USA imperialism in the last week of our times...
Lies again? Bang Bros Busy Body
Why does it hurt you just because you're black? Being black doesn't make you Congolese?
Amazing video as always, really well explained ❤
One of the most harrowing things I’ve ever heard, was a CIA operative talking (on PBS), about driving around Kinshasa with the murdered body of Patrice Lamumba (Democratically elected leader of the DRC) in the trunk of his car, wondering what to do with it.
😢 it breaks my heart!
As a salvadorian I think I can speak for all Central Americans about how you should’ve shined a light on the brutal violence and bloodshed the United States engaged in throughout the 80s and 20th century in general. Ramifications still felt today in almost the all of the region (although I know he only did coups, and ones with concrete direct ties to the us, they still did a lot of terrible things that weren’t coups, such as destabilization, sanctions, etc)
Yeah this was a really sugar coated video. The US-backed governments in Guatemala didn’t jail “suspected communist sympathizers” they straight up executed them.
This video is for American liberals who wanna act like their countries atrocities are in the past and weren’t that bad.
Every single Coup story he framed as innocently as possible. I’m sure those assumed „communists“ were just „detained“ in all those nations.
It’s a feel good story for Americans to say „look we‘re owning up to our mistakes“ while conviently leaving out many other coups, atrocities and war crimes that happened during those times.
He’s doing the opposite of owning up to it. He tells the stories as us-positive as possible and only mentions coups that were admitted and declassified.
Johnny Harris is not owning up the mistakes he’s partaking in apologetics towards us imperialism.
Agreed
@@lenoio512 yep
And the "Trump won because the election was rigged by Russia" thing slapped at the end... What the hell was that?
My man skipped through pretty much the whole of South America during the Cold War in a "Every US-led coup, mapped" video. Amazing
Also UKRAINE. Just to put a current twist on things
Yeah it was not at all accurate to title his video using the word "every"
This guy is good at doing CIA propoganda.. "look guys we didn't do that much regime change"
@@solodolotrevino
Harris: Look how the CIA instituted those brutal leaders in other countries.
Commentors: You're such a CIA shill!
@@winzracingNZ NO! UKraine wanted to get close to the West, just like Poland, because it didn’t want it to be “smaller brother” to abusive Russia, who was holding it back. It suffered enough and USA saw the opportunity and supported Ukraine, not the other way around!
I did High School in the US and NONE of these things were even mentioned in our history classes. Only up until college level that I was being shown these things (But many of these classes were elective classes - so very few people get exposed to this). I clearly remember my high school books being so dismissive about big events, such as Hiroshima and Nagasaki pretty much being like "oops... yea we just dropped a couple of bombs in Japan because... 'MURICA!"
These are covered in HS history. The atomic bombings were a blip in history. Even in the history of WWII, the atomic bombings are less significant than certain campaigns.
Even then, dropping the bombs saved millions of lives on both sides. Sometimes to save a life, you have to take one.
@@anf-2abuffalo603 that is actually falce.
The main reason for those bombings were to test the bombs on actual cities with actual people, and to show the world their shiny new toys. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen not for their strategic value (wich they had almost non), but for their different terrain that would make the test results more interesting.
Japan was ready to surrender already, it would happen within days either way, and the US actually was in a huge hurry with the bombings because if they surrendered too soon it would be hard to justify dropping the bombs.
So it was purelly murder of civilians for science and politics.
@@Vrodelena can I get a source saying definitively that the Japanese were preparing to surrender? Because their culture dictates that surrender is dishonorable, and death would come before dishonor. Also, if it seemed like they were planning to surrender, why would America have been preparing a land campaign?
@@anf-2abuffalo603 I heard that in a lecture by the well respected historian, so cant name any books. And maybe days is a bit of an overstatement, but it would deffinitely happened a couple of months, because the USSR was about to join in.
And with much less casualties, bacause the troops are a lot more selective about who is killed and takes prisoners. The no surrender thing might be relevant among the old samurai families, but the vast majority of population would rather live, even in Japan.
There was a lot of opposition to using the bombs because it was unnesasery in the US as well, I believe one Greg Mitchell wrote a book about that.
You should add a segment on the us-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014.
As somebody who’s born and raised in the united states and is of guatemalan and chilean descent and has family affected due to both of these coups, this was interesting to watch
How do you feel living in the very same Country that destroyed/killed your parents/ancestors Country? Just curious because as an Iraqi I rather DIE than living or supporting America
This was a reach
i am puerto rican and Guatemalan and i was born and live in the united states my dad told me about the coups and how my family was affected by it.
Same but my mom is Salvadorian
as a Mexican, I never knew about this stuff until I migrate to the US, never heard anything back then, internet really is a doble edge sword, you can reaserch stuff like this and get better informed, but on the other hand you know it's full of propaganda too, shit, am I getting paranoid?
even this video 'could be seen' as propaganda 'undermining the US motives'.
might be time for a social media break :)