keep the profits up and the profit margins high, monopoly capital needs to enlist powerful armed forces and concerted diplomatic pressure to keep expanding to exploit populations and resources in the global south. People who live in traditional societies with sustainable agriculture are prime targets because they are weak militarily and don't have the economic clout to play with Big Capital.

The Military/Industrial/Financial Complex has been at covert war with organized workers and countries that have resources coveted by Capital. The US military and NATO have been partners in this exploitation. Global capital wants the resources without the costs: This is behind Larry Summers statement that Africa is "underpolluted." This is why the US military has a presence in the majority of sub-Saharan African countries.

In southern Mexico, farmers are marginalized, or displaced, by the USA dumping subsidized corn(maize) onto their markets. School teachers who protest the lack of public school resources and shot and killed in the streets. The most dangerous thing for a Central American to be labeled as is an environmentalist: A employee of the government or corporation will kill with impunity.

American workers are suffering also. Manufacturing jobs - which tend to pay for then jobs in the service sector - have fallen to 8% of the workforce. Germany still have a manufacturing sector that employs 18% - Japan 15%.

Maybe we could rename this day International Oligarchs' Day.

But after 2 years in power, the neoliberals, headed by Chileans who had studied at the University of Chicago under Milton Freidman, the Chicago Boys, volunteered to head his economic team.

One day over some beers I can tell you my extremely unusual experience when I almost became the reason why Allende almost shut down the CIA smuggling of guns for the coup organizers. Long story involving some real movie level action scenes.

BTW the neoliberal Chilean economy is in big trouble; Protesters demand reforms to Chile's private pension system

I would consider that a "foundational" event - 75 years ago to this day.

Amid the chaos of 911

After Bush left Florida, where he had been reading a book to schoolkids, his plane was low on fuel but for hours had nowhere to land.
Most of the top 10 people in the president's line of succession, including Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, either refused to follow the protocol and go to their designated secure sites, or were out of the country, or were never contacted.
Now-disgraced Speaker of the House Denny Hastert, third in line, observed protocol and was taken to an underground bunker in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But that left him out of touch with all other top government leaders.

If we compare body counts, so many more people lost their lives in Chile.

One was a terrorist attack, the other was a genocide.

I don't mean that the coup was cool.

Of course, gulfgal98's series on neoliberalism is the best resource for those wanting to know about neoliberalism. However, a good overview helps me stay focused when I am in the weeds. Wikipedia gives a good overview in the introduction to its neoliberalism article. I found very interesting the comment that neoliberalism caused the economic crisis of 2008, which I lay solidly at the door of to Bill Clinton's White House.

Yes, Republicans were in the majority, but Clinton, Summers and Greenspan leaned heavily on Democrats to vote with them, rather than filibuster them. Clinton especially wanted, as he so often did, the cover of a so-called "veto-proof majority." He got it for Gramm Leach Blilely, aka repeal of Glass Steagal and tried for it with the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

In the CMFA, a Senate compromise left unregulated mortgage derivatives, the security that led to disaster in the US, the UK, Greece, Spain and Portugal. However, ultimately, the DMFA got wrapped into a 2000 page bill. Supposedly, Republicans were going to shut down federal government unless it passed. Shutdowns were allowed during the Obama administration and the world did not end. However, then, they were unthinkable. Anyway, here's the wiki intro (all bolding is mine):

Neoliberalism (neo-liberalism)[1] refers primarily to the 20th century resurgence of 19th century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism.[2]:7 These include extensive economic liberalization policies such as privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to enhance the role of the private sector in the economy.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9] The implementation of neoliberal policies and the acceptance of neoliberal economic theories in the 1970s are seen by some academics as the root of financialization, with the financial crisis of 2007–08 as one of the ultimate results.[10][11][12][13][14]

The term has been used since 1938[15] but became more prevalent in its current meaning in the 1970s and '80s by scholars in a wide variety of social sciences[16] and critics.[17] Advocates of Free Market policies avoid the term "neoliberal".[18]

The definition and usage of the term has changed over time.[3] It was originally an economic philosophy that emerged among European liberal scholars in the 1930s in an attempt to trace a so-called 'Third' or 'Middle Way' between the conflicting philosophies of classical liberalism and socialist planning.[19]:14–5 The impetus for this development arose from a desire to avoid repeating the economic failures of the early 1930s, which were mostly blamed by neoliberals on the economic policy of classical liberalism. In the decades that followed, the use of the term neoliberal tended to refer to theories at variance with the more laissez-faire doctrine of classical liberalism, and promoted instead a market economy under the guidance and rules of a strong state, a model which came to be known as the social market economy.

In the 1960s, usage of the term "neoliberal" heavily declined. When the term was reintroduced in the 1980s in connection with Augusto Pinochet's economic reforms in Chile, the usage of the term had shifted. It had not only become a term with negative connotations employed principally by critics of market reform, but it also had shifted in meaning from a moderate form of liberalism to a more radical and laissez-faire capitalist set of ideas. Scholars now tended to associate it with the theories of economists Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.[3] Once the new meaning of neoliberalism was established as a common usage among Spanish-speaking scholars, it diffused into the English-language study of political economy.[3] Scholarship on the phenomenon of neoliberalism has been growing.[20] The impact of the global 2008–09 crisis has also given rise to new scholarship that critiques neoliberalism and seeks developmental alternatives.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism