""In his seminal work "A Century of U.S.
Interventions," based on the Congressional Records and the Library of Congress'
Congressional Research Services, Zoltan Grossman chronicled 133 U.S. military
interventions by the most active military in the history of the world, between
1890 and 2001. Similarly, William Blum's study "A Guide to the World's Only
Superpower," covered 67 interventions between 1945 and 2000 that, according to
him, resulted in the deaths of 13-17 million people. In his book "The Fall of
the U.S. Empire – And Then What?," European intellectual Johan Galtung listed
161 incidents of American overt political violence between 1945 and 2001,
including 67 military interventions, 25 bombings, 35 political assassinations
(or attempted ones), 11 foreign countries that were assisted
with torture, and 23 interferences with elections or the political process
abroad. And all that was before the 9/11 attacks.""