Smoking gun: US-backed coup toppled Pakistan PM Imran Khan over Ukraine neutrality, non-alignment
The US government sponsored a political coup against Pakistan's democratically elected Prime Minister Imran Khan due to his non-aligned foreign policy and neutrality in the Ukraine proxy war. Ben Norton analyzes the substantial evidence.
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Topics:
0:00 Well known US-backed coups
1:37 Coup against Pakistan's PM Imran Khan
7:38 Imran Khan's non-aligned foreign policy
14:14 Coup regime reverses independent foreign policy
15:31 Coup regime's authoritarian crackdown
19:44 Another US-backed coup in Pakistan, in 1977
21:58 Similarities to Brazil and Peru
23:38 Iran and Mohammad Mosaddegh
27:14 The US "war on terror"
30:00 Smoking gun: leaked embassy cable
47:01 IMF bailout and inflation crisis
50:00 Outro
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