Here's the newly formed CIA's very first government overthrow in 1949,

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etuv3ryN7uM]

which is apropos since they are currently still involved in attempting to do regime change in Syria for the fourth time.

Here's a failed attempt in 1957,

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4EWLnW89DA]

The canard that was always used was "stopping communism" and installing "democracy and freedom". The truth is, the CIA, was designed and operated by businessmen with Harvard and other degrees, to determine what countries/regimes would receive US aid under the Marshall plan. They wanted to make countries more amenable for US business interests, be it bananas or oil. It was the furtherance of capitalism - making money from the war and the rebuilding of economies afterwards. This was key to America becoming the wealthiest country in the world.

The CIA, the Marshall Plan & Corporate Global Conquest

"... The CIA also skimmed large amounts of Marshall Plan funds to covertly maintain cultural institutions, journalists, and publishers, at home and abroad, for the heated and omnipresent propaganda of the Cold War; the selling of the Marshall Plan to the American public and elsewhere was entwined with fighting 'the red menace.' Moreover, in its covert operations, CIA personnel at times used the Marshall Plan as cover, and one of the Plan's chief architects, Richard Bissell, then moved to the CIA, stopping off briefly at the Ford Foundation, a long time conduit for CIA covert funds. One big happy family. ..."

The Enduring Mystique of the Marshall Plan

Amidst all the stirring political upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East the name 'Marshall Plan' keeps being repeated by political figures and media around the world as the key to rebuilding the economies of those societies to complement the political advances, which hopefully will be somewhat progressive. But caveat emptor. Let the buyer beware.
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"The program could be seen as more a joint business operation between governments than an American 'handout'; often it was a business arrangement between American and European ruling classes, many of the latter fresh from their service to the Third Reich, some of the former as well.'"

The Marshall Plan imposed all kinds of restrictions on the recipient countries, all manner of economic and fiscal criteria which had to be met, designed for a wide open return to free enterprise. The US had the right to control not only how Marshall Plan dollars were spent, but also to approve the expenditure of an equivalent amount of the local currency, giving Washington substantial power over the internal plans and programs of the European states; welfare programs for the needy survivors of the war were looked upon with disfavor by the United States; even rationing smelled too much like socialism and had to go or be scaled down; nationalization of industry was even more vehemently opposed by Washington. The great bulk of Marshall Plan funds returned to the United States, or never left, to purchase American goods, making American corporations among the chief beneficiaries.

At the end of the war, most of the industrialized countries in the world were left in ruins. They didn't have a pot to piss in. America gave them US taxpayer's money to buy US manufactured pots. This kept US industry rolling along for the next two decades and created the world's largest and richest middle class.

Maybe the US needs another war to become "Great Again"? Unfortunately, the next war will also be fought on US soil and the country will have to go begging for pots to piss in.

how are you ever going to keep up?

A timely list and essay, indeed - time to break the nasty habits of TPTB before they finish breaking everything else.