Ted Snider, a writer for Znet and Counterpunch, discusses how the Obama administration uses the trappings of democracy to effect “silent coups” abroad; the manufactured popular protests designed for regime change, from Iran in 2009 to Egypt today; and how WikiLeaks revealed that the State Department was well aware the 2009 Honduran “constitutional crisis” was nothing but a coup d’état endorsed by Washington.
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