THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY 2/10

John Pilger's documentary explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. Pilger claims that the film "...tells a universal story... analyzing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called "war on terror". According to Pilger, the films message is that the greed and power of empire is not invincible and that people power is always the "seed beneath the snow".

Pilger interviews several ex-CIA agents who purportedly took part in secret campaigns against democratic countries and who he claims are profiting from the war in Iraq. He investigates the School of the Americas in the U.S. state of Georgia, where General Pinochets torture squads were reportedly trained along with tyrants and death-squad leaders in Haiti, El Salvador, Brazil and Argentina.

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[MsPaolito]

mardukk13,

The state is there to take care of its citizens, it is not up to private people to do this. Every country ussually have some naturalresource that gives a lot of money, that should go to all the countrys citizens, not to a private corporation.With a resource/s like that, the country can take care of its people. The state is there to its people and not vice versa. Like in Sweden, and other nothern countrys, and how it is now in Venezuela.

[Sreggaematic09]

how much of that is as the result of capitalist policies from the previous regime? it takes years for wounds like this to heal, and even longer when a foreign power is still meddling in their affairs

[Picard578]

And Castro was bad how?

[RemoveYourChains]

I see that the rich are the same everywhere - decadent and entitled, being utterly possessed by the delusion that the labor of any man can merit such opulence while his fellows go without, even after working so hard.

Frankly, Chavez is far too soft.

[13THEMIS]

Wow FoxNews is Branhing Out

[dennisberksimon]

YANKEE GO HOME

[Lachausis]

@lunacomputacion Like American hadn't experienced that themselves. Great depression comes to my mind.

[lunacomputacion]

Since the "backyard" takes no more junk, the homeless in the streets of USA are having a taste of what capitalism meant for Latin America.

[lunacomputacion]

@BMayhew60 I can speak about Argentina and the process of privatization with a perfect example: railways. Argentine state railways were inefficient and obsolete (in part, because of corruption between state officers and local or foreign private providers, which "casually" would become the private buyers). Today, being private, 4/5 of jobs and most services are lost, the ways rendered useless, and the state pays more for subsidies than it used to lose as administrator. And that money goes abroad.

[Airportris]

@xMaXiMuSx i never said it doesn't work, they all work in theory... but the problem with things like capitalism, is that there is always a small minority left to suffer, why can't we design a system where the poor are takin care of if they cannot not succeed in a dog eat dog capitalist society, i believe as humans we have a drive to compete and to do our best, but some members of our society cannot function and contribute and i just think they should be taken care of.

[xMaXiMuSx]

@Airportris

Free Market capitalism works, it's corporatism/fascism that does not work and neither does socialiasm.. You can't create puchasing power with socialism, it's impossible.. Capitalism should not be given a bad name because corruput US backed goverments stole all the money and didn't allow the free market to operate instead had these huge corporations controlling everything not allowing competition.. Chavez should look to what Putin did in Russia...