The War On Democracy - Never Believe Anything Until it's Officially Denied (2007)(DVD ISO)

The War On Democracy - Never Believe Anything Until it's Officially Denied (2007)

I pick-up this DVD @ Goodwill for $2.49

Pilger's law: 'If it's been officially denied, then it’s probably true'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/pilgers-law-if-its-been...

YouTube Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H40_rZWelRA

The War On Democracy was produced and directed by John Pilger and Christopher Martin and edited by Joe Frost. The film, John Pilger’s first for cinema, explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.

Using archive footage sourced by Michael Moore’s archivist Carl Deal, the film shows how serial US intervention, overt and covert, has toppled a series of legitimate governments in the region since the 1950s. The democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende, for example, was ousted by a US backed coup in 1973 and replaced by the military dictatorship of General Pinochet. Guatemala, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador have all been invaded by the United States.

John Pilger interviews several ex-CIA agents who took part in secret campaigns against democratic countries in the region. He investigates the School of the Americas in the US state of Georgia, where Pinochet’s torture squads were trained along with tyrants and death squad leaders in Haiti, El Salvador, Brazil and Argentina.

The film unearths the real story behind the attempted overthrow of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez in 2002 and how the people of the barrios of Caracas rose up to force his return to power.

It also looks at the wider rise of populist governments across South America lead by indigenous leaders intent on loosening the shackles of Washington and a fairer redistribution of the continent’s natural wealth.

John Pilger says: “The film is about the struggle of people to free themselves from a modern form of slavery”. These people, he says, “describe a world not as American presidents like to see it as useful or expendable, they describe the power of courage and humanity among people with next to nothing. They reclaim noble words like democracy, freedom, liberation, justice, and in doing so they are defending the most basic human rights of all of us in a war being waged against all of us.”

If you’re an American and you often wonder why the US is unpopular in many parts of the world then I have just the film for you! “The War on Democracy” details the US government’s involvement in overthrowing democratically elected regimes who don’t conform to US national interests. Many victimized countries had US puppet governments installed that were run by brutal military dictatorships that have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. There’s even a very interesting interview with Hugo Chavez who actually isn’t the maniac that Western media portrays him as. Did you know that the 2002 Venezuelan coup d’état was planned by the US and some Venezuelan crony generals because Chavez refused to allow extreme capitalistic domination of his country? Since Chavez has come to power poverty rates have been substantially reduced, the nation’s oil wealth is being distributed more evenly among the people, literacy rates have increased, and the people have universal healthcare. But of course the propagandist corporate media doesn’t want you to know about that.

This is a must watch film. Latin America often gets overlooked in the grand scheme of things but they are people. People who elect their own leaders and when other countries interfere in their governance it’s a gross violation of self-determination and national destiny. Hold leaders accountable who push for interventions and unlawful regime changes.

Editorial Reviews
"The War On Democracy is brilliant. John Pilger is the world's most important documentary film maker. He exposes the myths of U.S. empire, and also shows us the growing resistance to U.S. domination and neoliberalism. Pilger asks the bold questions that the establishment media have not asked, reminding us of the power of journalism and documentary film to help us understand the world -- and change it." --Anthony Arnove, author, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal and (with Howard Zinn), Voices of a People's History of the United States

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 with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Pilger also goes to the United States and in some remarkable interviews, speaks exclusively to US government 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.

Release Date: January 1, 2007
Time: 96 minutes

Entire film right here!
https://vimeo.com/16724719

http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/warondemocracy.html