The War on Democracy (2007) [reseed]

The War on Democracy (2007) [reseed]

The War on Democracy - A Film by John Pilger (2007)

Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years leading up to the struggle by ordinary people to free themselves from poverty and racism. Since the mid 19th Century Latin America has been the 'backyard' of the US, a collection of mostly vassal states whose compliant and often brutal regimes have reinforced the 'invisibility' of their majority peoples. The film reveals similar CIA policies to be continuing in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon. The rise of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez despite ongoing Washington backed efforts to unseat him in spite of his overwhelming mass popularity, is democratic in a way that we have forgotten or abandoned in the west. True Democracy being a solid 80% voter turnout in support of Chavez in over 6 elections.

The War on Democracy demonstrates the brutal reality of the America’s notion of 'spreading democracy'; that, in fact, America is actually conducting a war on democracy, and that true popular democracy is now more likely to be found among the poorest of Latin America whose grassroots movements are often ignored in the west. John Pilger conducts an exclusive interview 'on the road' with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Pilger also goes to the United States and in some remarkable interviews, speaks exclusively to US govt officials who ran the CIA's war in Latin America in the 1980s. This reveals more about US policy than all the statements and postures of recent times; it also reveals how what’s happened in Latin America is a metaphor for how the rest of the world is being 'ordered'. The War on Democracy, however, is a hopeful film, for it sees the world not through the eyes of the powerful, but through the hopes and dreams and extraordinary actions of ordinary people. Although set mostly in Latin America, it is a metaphor for all the world in 2007.

"Modern fictional cinema rarely seems to break political silences. The very fine Motorcycle Diaries was a generation too late. In this country, where Hollywood sets the liberal boundaries, the work of Ken Loach and a few others is an honourable exception. However, the cinema is changing as if by default. The documentary has returned to the big screen and is being embraced by the public." John Pilger writes in the Guardian as his acclaimed film 'The War On Democracy' hits UK cinemas.

New film from award-winning documentary maker John Pilger which suggests that, far from bringing
democracy to the world as it claims, the US is doing its best to stifle its progress.

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Comment: Remember, Hugo Chavez us the guy Nelson Rockefeller wanted to kill. That speaks for Hugo, I guess. He may be a socialist, but it's certainly not the kind of "socialism for the rich" Barack Obama is practicing. This film is very interesting for it shows how the CIA-backed opposition in Venezuela staged a coup d'état that was eventually defeated by the people behind Chavez - it was a real disaster for the CIA. This is a different type of socialism, it's not the type of freemasonic socialism being propagated by the illuminati. The idea is simply that natural resources such as oil belong to the people of a country and not to the elite only. One might classify this form of socialism as a movement of counter-colonialism, a form of anti-globalization giving national sovereignty and national resources back to the people. The type of socialism being practiced by Obama has a completely different bias, it's not nationalistic but globalistic, it's not about more participation by the people, it's about less participation, it's not about freedom, it's about slavery. Eventually socialism in Venezuela will be overcome and replaced by a true constitutional republic with a solid middle class, but Hugo Chavez seems to have been the right man to smash the old structures of South American corruption and feudalism backed by the US-empire having lasted for centuries.