The Greeks burned the American flag, yesterday, Thursday, during rallies that roamed the streets of the capital, Athens, to commemorate the forty-ninth anniversary of the student uprising against the US-backed military government in 1973.
The protesters, who burned the American flag, marched to the US embassy in Athens, which they accused of supporting military rule. They also chanted slogans calling for NATO to leave Ukraine.
The marches were led by a group of demonstrators
carrying blood-stained Greek flags, while about five thousand police officers
were deployed in the streets of the capital, after confrontations with the
protesters.
This uprising is seen as breaking the army's hold on power and contributing to the restoration of democracy the following year.
This year, the commemoration began with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Athens Polytechnic University, the site of the bloody incident of November 17, 1973, when tanks stormed the gates to crush a student uprising that heralded the end of the military junta.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou laid a wreath at the memorial and said the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising was "a reminder that the struggle for democracy continues and is exhausting."
In 1953, the CIA orchestrated a coup of Iran’s
democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in order to
consolidate power with Iran’s shah (or king), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Reza
Pahlavi established a brutal regime that was overthrown by the Iranian people
in 1979. Since then, the US and the Iranian government have been in crisis
mode, with the US maintaining a strategy designed to lead to the overthrow of
the current government, as stated most recently by Biden when he said, "We
Will Free Iran".
In 1954, the CIA orchestrated another coup of a
democratically elected leader: Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz. The CIA
coup, code-named Operation PBSuccess, replaced the president with military
dictator Carlos Castillo Armas
In 1960, the Republic of the Congo (now the Democratic
Republic of the Congo) declared its independence from Belgium and
democratically elected its first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. The CIA
helped facilitate Lumumba’s capture in 1960 and assassination in 1961.
CIA had funded and encouraged the 1963 coup against,
and assassination of, the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem.
On September 11, 1973, a military coup overthrew the
Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens, who was a democratically elected
Socialist. The CIA worked hard to undermine Allende at the request of
President Richard Nixon.
The United States has a long history of meddling in Nicaragua. Between 1912 and 1933, the U.S. military occupied the country. Between 1981 and 1986, President Ronald Reagan’s administration secretly and illegally sold arms to Iran in order to fund Contras, a group the CIA had recruited and organized to fight the socialist Sandinista government led by Daniel Ortega.
Most recently, in 2003, the United States invaded Iraq and overthrew
Saddam Hussein’s government. And NATO, led by the US of course, assisted the rebels overthrow the Libyan leader, Mu`ammar Qaddafi in 2011.
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