The War On Democracy by John Pilger

[killbotfactory]

Run time: 09:52 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to6uNUTf8g4   Posted on YouTube: August 22, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 02, 2007 By DU Member: killbotfactory Views on DU: 1870

 
This is part One of Ten.

Pilger begins in Venezuela, where an eye-opening interview with charismatic President Hugo Chávez - America's current bugbear in the region - suggests that "a war is being waged against all of us". According to Pilger, America's distrust of socialist or (heaven forbid) communist governments in Latin America has led to anti-democratic initiatives. From Allende's Chile to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, popular movements not endorsed by the American Foreign Office have frequently been undermined. The reason? To promote American economic interests: "Whole countries have been privatised, put up for sale, their natural wealth sold for peanuts."

Pilger is no lover of America and it shows: this is an angry documentary and its thundering condemnation of US adventurism abroad is about as subtle as an anvil dropped from the Empire State Building. Still, there's no denying Pilger's conclusions, especially after revealing confrontations with ex-CIA chiefs highlight the contempt that many senior American figures have for democracy and the nations that comprise the USA's "backyard".

The talking head interviews are a joy to watch, full of sly wit and an indefatigable sense of purpose. Pilger's like a dog with a bone, hounding his interviewees until they yield up their innermost marrow. "That's just tough... like it or lump it," remarks former CIA chief Duane Clarridge when Pilger challenges him over America's destruction of democracy and its support of state terror in the shape of dictators like Pinochet. "In the CIA we didn't give a hoot about democracy," shrugs Clarridge in a sobering moment where the mask finally slips.

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Part Two: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LMvY3yZfmqI
Part Three: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7EtHTGuFTNY
Part Four: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yk-po8vSvuU
Part Five: http://youtube.com/watch?v=HV5w5h_SUZA
Part Six: http://youtube.com/watch?v=3wvwYl71wEI
Part Seven: http://youtube.com/watch?v=MYjl2fSJ6Zc
Part Eight: http://youtube.com/watch?v=csSgkdfwTb8
Part Nine: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1T6juU_19j0
Part Ten: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qcqZExl8sq4

Trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=J1zZNbqi53o

Google Video version: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-37395005796298...

[Cleita]

1. A must see for every American who didn't know what

their country is doing to people in other countries for the gain and profit of American corporations.

[Wilber_Stool]

2. You can find it

here and download it in Real format and watch it at your leisure. You might need a download manager.

[Greeby]

3. "Pilger is no lover of America and it shows"

Wrong, Pilger is angry at governments who commit atrocities like this (Which he has witnessed the consequences of first-hand as a reporter since the Vietnam War). Be it American, British, Australian or any other. He will stand up for any American who challenges power and says no to Mr Clarridge's idea of "national security interest"

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. I wonder why that would be? Who said that? I wonder if the person thinks there might be a clue

hidden somewhere in these videos?

[CGowen]

6. He once mentions British build bombers were used to attack Allende in his parliament

but that's it.


It's interesting what kind of statements he got from all those CIA guys

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Seems once again that we were your sock puppets. Beneath contempt.

Ex-Tory PM, Major, is a wheel in the Carlyle Group I believe. Along with plenty of others, I dare say, including New Labour(?). (I know Lamont, the genius responsible for our Black Wednesday , like Thatcher, was a close friend of Pinochet).

[killbotfactory]

9. That one CIA guy was a real son of a bitch

Scoffing at the claims of thousands dead. What a fucking piece of shit. I guess the pretense that what we did there wasn't that bad helps him sleep at night.

[CGowen]

10. I think some of them really believe the brainwashing (National Security)..........n/t

[kenfrequed]

11. Yeah

He really made me angry as well. I guess he has to deny it or face up to the fact that his fat ass bore some responsability for the genocide that ocurred.

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. What absolutely brilliant videos, though I could only get as far as

the first video on Guatemala (if there were others), as I knew the role of the US was going to become more and more evil, and the situation there, more and more gruesome. How about that counter-coup by the Venezuelan people, though!

And didn't I read that Ugo's been arming them too. Well, why not? The Swiss civilian population are armed, and the Northern Ireland Protestant population, was too, I think.

[treestar]

8. Thanks for posting this

The MSM would never show it. Very informative.

[LibertyorDeath]

12. Thanks for this... On google video also

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-373950057962984...