You must see BREAKDOWN.

[Gregorian]

LinkTV has just aired it.

A documentary on the US foreign policy over the last 50 years.

It ties absolutely everything together.

How the world bank sets up loans in countries that have resources we need. Loans they know, and we know, they won't pay back. If they don't take the loan, the world bank sends "jackals" to the country to assassinate and alter the country. And when that doesn't work, we send in our military. One man mentioned that the only reason Chavez was still standing is that our military is too extended.

Iran, Kuwait, Cuba, Panama, Iraq.

I can't do it justice. I'm still watching it.

I'm walking away from this with this thought- When Saddam invaded Kuwait the US was not interested in having him removed. But, Bush took advantage of the situation. So our country was not interested, but the Bush family was.

There is so much inside insight in this film, among the choice video clips of the Bush's and Reagan.

I am now seeing that what is happening right now is nothing more than the United States citizens paying to support the Bush family empire, and other large corporations, through our hard earned tax dollars. What I mean is that we are using our tax dollars to the benefit of private companies.

This documentary totally exposes the Bushes and the companies and conservatives who strongarmed the world for their own personal gains.

I simply cannot do it justice in a post like this. You've got to see it.


Edit- It even mentions PNAC. The August 6th PDB. And events all the way up to recent happenings. I am also starting to see why the Dems in Congress would be so afraid to speak out. Why impeachment might be "off the table". We are not up against George Bush and Cheney. We're up against who they are representing. Billions on lobbying. They aren't about to just back down.

[IndyOp]

1. Wow. Looks powerful - here is the website:

Breakdown. Telling its story in six parts, the film questions the motives for our current wars and wonders whether our interventionist policies are spiraling out of control. Directed by an American-British former BBC and Aljazeera TV reporter and producer, it gives voice to those closely involved in both overt and covert operations, as well as those who see themselves as the victims of much wider political ambitions.


http://www.breakdownfilm.tv/Breakdown%20Film/Breakdown.html

[Gregorian]

3. Thanks. I'm still watching it. So I haven't put this together completely.

[EFerrari]

2. Thanks, Gregorian. Good call.

K&R

[Gregorian]

4. It's the most revealing documentary I've seen. Amazing.

Jeremy Scahill will be on during the second part of the documentary. He wrote the book, Blackwater. Michael Parenti was on today. He even mentioned the PNAC, which one rarely hears.

I'll tell you, I'm actually frightened watching this. All public liberal figures should be very afraid of this group of thugs. I can fully see why JFK was killed. I just can't do the show justice here.

Phew.

[EFerrari]

5. Scahill is one clear speaker. I'm glad you posted so more DUers

can see for themselves.

[blogslut]

6. Again, about a point Greg Palast brought up

in his May Day speech. I'm telling you, when I heard him say it, I stopped the YouTube and had to wait a day before I resumed watching - It made me that angry. Anyway, here was his point, paraphrased:

"We didn't go there to get the oil. We went there to turn it off. That way the supply would go down and the oil companies could raise the prices. Exxon and all the others have made obscene profits since the war. They have made more money than human beings have ever made before. Mission accomplished."

Any mention of this in Breakdown?

[Gregorian]

10. Yes. At least the intermission discussion with Parenti did.

AND, he had something more to say about it that I'm not remembering at the moment. This documentary doesn't miss anything.

[Ilsa]

7. Is it showing on anything other than linktv? I don't think it is part of

our cable lineup.

[ellenfl]

8. if anyone finds out where to buy a copy, please let us know. eom

[Gregorian]

11. Linktv.org would be the best place to start.

Or the Breakdown website. See the first couple of replies for that.

[robinlynne]

13. nothig on the website. I sent them an email asking how we can see it.

[Gregorian]

17. You can get a copy. They just mentioned this during Part 2

A contribution of $200 to Linktv, and they'll give a copy of Breakdown.

I know, it's a lot of money. But if you have it, there's no better channel on tv than Linktv. It's the only way I've kept up with Middle East news on a daily basis.

And there may be another way to also get a copy for less, by not going the route of donation to their pledge drive.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Reminds me of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" by John Perkins

Amazon.com

John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Think John Le Carré, except it's a true story.

Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies, perhaps that's not surprising considering the life he's led. --Alex Roslin --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/103-7413535-5928609?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179714444&sr=1-3

[moodforaday]

19. Or listen to John Perkins speak

in three parts, last part is Q&A:

911podcasts.com presents John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman

http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?cat=9998&med=0&ord=Name&strt=0&vid=212&epi=0&typ=0

He was also featured on Democracy Now in 2004:
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251

All highly recommended.

[KoKo]

12. Good for Link TV...I don't get it but have heard it's good.

Sounds like it's connecting the dots that lots of us who've been around since JFK have been putting together. Thanks for the Post and I'll give the thread a kick. Heard the guy who wrote book on Blackwater on C-Span's Boonotes and he was excellent...so it's getting out there!

[vanboggie]

14. Link TV schedule

Thanks for the heads up. Here's a LinkTV schedule for the six-part series:
http://www.linktv.org/programs/special_hate1

[me b zola]

20. Thanks for the link

It looks at they list it on the tv guide as "Why they hate us". I may have missed it if I had looked on the tv guide for Breakdown.

I will surely watch and tape it.

[Atman]

15. A lot of this ground was also covered in "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"

The book is available on Amazon, of course. But the author cited much of the same info...that the US essentially strong-arms countries into taking loans in exchange for pledging their resources. We wind up "owning" those countries. This is why it has been so important for the US to keep one of our own as president of the World Bank. I've heard rumblings that the WB is actually considering a non-US president because of all the bullshit we've pulled under Bush. It would send a strong message, to be sure.

.

[checks-n-balances]

16. Sounds like what Ron Paul was alluding to when discussing 9/11

Thanks for posting it. Hope to watch sometime soon.

[annm4peace]

18. Get Dish, not cable.

To be informed you have to watch Free Speech TV and LINK TV.
I have had it for 5 years now. It was the only want to stay up on the Truth.

[rosesaylavee]

22. What dish do you have?

Have been hesitating to get Direct as that is Rupert's dish.

[H2O Man]

21. It is on again

at 3pm est.