255
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Determining Intent: Why Do US Leaders Intervene in Other Countries?

Pages 39-55 | Published online: 18 Aug 2010

  • Parenti , Michael . 1995 . Against Empire , San Francisco : City Lights . For evidence in support of this see
  • Parenti , Michael . 1993 . Inventing Reality, , 2nd edn , New York : St. Martin's .
  • Blum , William . 1998 . Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II , New York : Black Rose Books . ); and the writings of James Petras, Morris Morely, Edward Herman, and various others. For Petras's latest treatment of imperialism and capitalism, see his "Neo Mercantilist Empire in Latin America: Bush, ALCA and Plan Colombia" (unpublished mongraph, 2001).
  • Barnet , Richard . 1991 . "The Uses of Force," . New Yorker , April 29 : 84
  • Muller , Ingo . 1991 . Hitler's Justice , Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . ), Part 3, "The Aftermath."
  • Wiener , Jon . 1989 . "Bringing Nazi Sympathizers to the US," . Nation , March 6 : 306 – 309 . . Nazi war criminals have been aided by Western intelligence agencies, business interests, the military, and even the Vatican. In October 1944, German paratroop commander Major Walter Reder slaughtered 1836 defenseless civilians in a village near Bologna, Italy as a reprisal against Italian partisan activities. He was released from prison in 1985, after Pope John Paul II, among others, made an appeal on his behalf--over the strenuous protests of families of the victims.
  • Lottman , Herbert . 1986 . The Purge , 290 New York : William Morrow .
  • Deane , Hugh . 1995 . "Korea, China and the United Sates: A Look Back," . Monthly Review , February : 20 23
  • Domenico , Roy Palmer . 1991 . Italian Fascists on Trial, 1943-1948 , Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press .
  • 1995 . La Repubblica , April 9
  • 1995 . Carriere della Sera , March 27 and 28 ; April 12, 1995; May 29, 1995).
  • Herman , Edward . 1982 . The Real Terror Network , Boston : South End Press . On the widescale use of terrorism by the US national security state, see ). The most insidious form of intervention should not go unnoticed, namely, the circumvention of an already inadequate democratic sovereignty by international agreements such as NAFTA. GATT, GATS and the like, which in effect give transnational corporations the power to overrule the laws and public protections of nation-states, in what amounts to a global coup d'état by the plutocratic class; see
  • Wallach , Lori and Sforza , Michelle . 1999 . World Trade Organization? Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy , Washington, DC : Public Citizen .
  • 2001 . FTAA far Beginners , Boston, MA : United for a Fair Economy .
  • Quigley , John . 1992 . The Ruses for War: American Intervention since World War II , Buffalo, NY : Prometheus Books .
  • Gowan , Peter . 1999 . "The NATO Powers and the Balkan Tragedy," . New Left Review , March-April : 103 – 104 .
  • Parenti , Michael . 1997 . Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism , San Francisco : City Lights . ), Chapters 6 and 7
  • 1983 . New York Times , November 6-20 Network news reports, October 27--November 4, 1983;
  • Lazare , Daniel . 1983 . "Reagan's Seven Big Lies about Grenada," . In These Times , November 6 John Judis, "Grenadian Documents Do Not Show What Reagan Claims," and
  • 1983 . "A Tottering Structure of Lies," . Sojourner , December : 4 – 5 .
  • Massing , Michael . 1984 . "Grenada Before and After," . Atlantic Monthly , February : 79 – 80 .
  • Lusane , Clarence . 1991 . "Aftermath of the US Invasion," . CovertAction Information Bulletin , Spring : 61 – 63 . See "Special Report," Labor Action (publication of the Labor Coalition on Central America, Washington, DC, July/August 1990);
  • 1991 . San Francisco Examiner , April 9
  • Williams , William Appleman . 1967 . "American Intervention in Russia: 1917-1920," ” . In Containment and Revolution , Edited by: Horowitz , David . 36 38 Boston : Beacon Press . Quoted in
  • 1953 . New York Times , February 3
  • Barnet . "The Uses of Force," . 90 Quoted in
  • 1993 . New York Times , October 5 For a full account of Yeltsin's repression, see my
  • Parenti , Michael and Truths , Dirty , eds. 1996 . "Yeltsin's Coup and the Media's Alchemy," ” . 133 – 140 . San Francisco : City Lights .
  • Gervasi , Sean . 1992-1993 . "Germany, US and the Yugoslav Crisis," . Covert Action Quarterly , Winter : 41 – 42 .
  • Chossudovsky , Michel . 1996 . "Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, Recolonizing Bosnia," . CovertAction Quarterly , Spring
  • Chossudovsky's . 1999 . "Banking on the Balkans," . THIS , July-August
  • 1999 . "Rambouillet Agreement" . February 23 Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-government in Kosovo (the
  • 1999 . The Kosovo Dossier, , 2nd edn , London : Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies . reproduced in full in
  • Elich , Gregory . 2001 . "The CIA's Covert War," . CovertAction Quarterly , April-June : 35 – 36 .
  • Elich . "The CIA's Covert War," . 38 – 39 .
  • 2001 . Financial Times , April 11 By July 2001, the number of companies slated for privatization had grown to over 7000, according to a communication to me from Barry Lituchy, editor of Eastern European Review
  • Marshall , Jonathan , Scott , Peter Dale and Hunter , Jane . 1988 . The Iran--Contra Connection , Boston : South End .
  • 1987 . Report of the Congressional Committee Investigating the Iran--Contra Affair , Washington, DC : Government Printing Office .
  • Hitchens , Christopher . 2001 . The Trial of Henry Kissinger , 98 – 99 . London and New York : Verso .
  • See Information Security Oversight Office, Report to the President (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1995 and 1996); Office of Management and Budget, "Information Security Oversight Office; Classified National Security Information,"
  • 1995 . Federal Register , 60 ( 198 ) October 13 CFR Paret 2001,
  • Cable of October 16, 1970, quoted in Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, p. 60.
  • Eisberg , Daniel . 2001 . "Lying About Vietnam," . New York Times , June 29
  • Miliband , Ralph . 1969 . The State in Capitalist Society , 84 New York : Basic Books . (italics in the original)

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.