We've funded coups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic#Honduras and instigated armies against their own people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_massacre in order to support business interests.

Right, but when have those commercially-motivated activities extended into the Commonwealth countries or the EU?

You really think they'd turn their guns on their own citizens just to break up a union dispute with an American corporation?

You have been seen as a "mafia state" like that for at least a century -- American multinationals (with government support) have left behind a wide swath of destruction in the South and Central America. The only thing that's new is American influence and control extending that far outside the new world.

"The only thing that's new is American influence and control extending that far outside the new world."

Well, I think that's my point. US Foreign policy has always distinguished between its allies and its pseudo-colonies/sphere of influence.

Back in the 50s, not only did the USA fund coups to aid corporate interests, some of the insiders profited from it: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/20...

So much for a Golden Age of patriotic, selfless, public servants in the "alphabet soup" of federal agencies.

Since 1950s

* citation needed

I was specifically referring to this: assassinates prominent citizens of allied nations inside allied nations

There's many criticisms that can be found for nearly all superpower nations, but I'm not aware of the US having a history of "assassinating citizens". Unless collateral damage is now the same as an "assassination."