By: Ben/Truth in Media

According to Carnegie Mellon University researcher Dov Levin, the United States has attempted to sway elections in other countries more than 80 times worldwide between 1946 and 2000.

“One example of that was our intervention in Serbia, Yugoslavia in the 2000 election there. Slobodan Milosevic was running for re-election, and we didn’t want him to stay in power there due to his tendency, you know, to disrupts the Balkans and his human rights violations,” according to Levin. “So we intervened in various ways for the opposition candidate. And we gave funding to the opposition, and we gave them training and campaigning aide.”

Editor’s note, March 15, 2018, 5:24 PM: This episode cited an article published by Salon, which was a republication of an original article written for Alternet by Nicolas J.S. Davies. The original article can be seen here.

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