The War On Democracy (2007)

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

Talking exclusively to American government officials, including agents who reveal for the first time on film how the CIA ran its war in Latin America in the 80s, Pilger argues that true popular democracy is more likely to be found among the poorest in Latin America, whose movements are often ignored in the West. rnrnhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1029172/Xvid - 1100 kb/s - 640 x 352 (Widescreen) - 25 fps - De-interlaced rnMP3 - 128 kb/s CBR - Stereo - 49 kHz rnDuration: 93:37

Students of Uncle Sam's doings in Latin America from the overthrow of Allende or earlier will find little new in Pilger's first big screen documentary. But its message needs to repeated again and again and as widely as possible: that "freedom" and "democracy" loving US regimes have stolen or overridden the rights of the poor in every part of the world, perhaps most of all in the "back yard". I saw the movie in a white liberal middle class district of London where the normally reticent audience gave it a round of applause. Preaching to the converted maybe. It needs to be shown as widely as possible. Viva Pilger!