Howard Friel

Howard Friel is author of Chomsky and Dershowitz: On Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties (Olive Branch Press). He also wrote the The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight about Global Warming (Yale University Press, 2010), and is co-author with Richard Falk of Israel-Palestine on Record: How The New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East (Verso, 2007), and The Record of the Paper: How The New York Times Misreports U.S. Foreign Policy (Verso, 2004).

On Democracy And Orchestrated Overthrows In Venezuela And Ukraine

One would be remiss not to look at the U.S. government’s rich history of orchestrated regime change.

Howard Friel
By Howard Friel
Venezuela Protests

On April 11, 2002, the democratically elected president of Venezuela was overthrown by a group of military officers who installed a prominent Venezuelan businessman as president. The Bush administration announced that day that it supported the coup.  Two days later, on April 13, the lead editorial in the New York Times announced that it also

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