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EPISODE · Sep 26, 2023 · 51 MIN

Smoking gun: US-backed coup toppled Pakistan PM Imran Khan over Ukraine neutrality, non-alignment

from Geopolitical Economy Report · host Ben Norton

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. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wBc5YLW8h74 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 Check out some of our previous coverage: - Pakistan’s prime minister accuses US diplomat of ‘conspiracy’ to overthrow his elected government (from April 2022): https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/04/04/pakistan-imran-khan-us-diplomat-conspiracy - Pakistan coup regime bans Imran Khan, dissidents killed, as US eyes China ties, Israel normalization: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/26/pakistan-coup-imran-khan-china-israel - Pakistan warns of foreign-backed regime-change attempt, to disrupt China/Russia alliance (from March 2022): https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/03/31/pakistan-foreign-regime-change-china-russia

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