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| Power, illusion and America's last tabooPilger, Johnhttp://johnpilger.com/articles/power-illusion-and-americas-last-taboo 
 Date Written:  04/07/2009
 Year Published:  2009
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 Since 1945, the United States has overthrown fifty governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 liberation movements, and supported tyrannies and set up torture chambers from Egypt to Guatemala. Countless men, women and children have been bombed to death. Bombing is apple pie. And yet, here is the 44th President of the United States, having stacked his government with warmongers and corporate fraudsters and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, teasing us while promising more of the same.
 
 
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