3/19/26 Patrick Pillow on Washington’s Preferred Method of Regime Change

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Scott interviews Patrick Pillow about the series Anatomy of a Regime Change, focusing on CIA-organized political revolutions as a method of regime change in American foreign policy.

Scott interviews Patrick Pillow about Anatomy of a Regime Change, the series he’s writing on the so-called Color Revolutions. While Iraq and Afghanistan get the most attention, the majority of Washington-backed regime change attempts since the end of the Cold War have taken the form of these CIA-organized political revolutions. Scott and Pillow walk through the specifics of several examples and discuss the importance of this often overlooked aspect of American foreign policy. Discussed on the show: Libertarian Overwatch The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections, and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union by Mark A. MacKinnon Patrick Pillow runs Libertarian Overwatch on Substack. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott's work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott's other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott's books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Horton

Guest: Patrick Pillow

Topics covered

• regime change
• Color Revolutions
• American foreign policy
• CIA
• political revolutions
• Iraq
• Afghanistan

Keywords

• regime change
• Color Revolutions
• CIA
• foreign policy
• political revolutions
• Iraq
• Afghanistan

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Libertarian Overwatch, The Libertarian Institute

Books & works: Anatomy of a Regime Change, The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections, and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan

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