War On Democracy - Hugo Chavez - Part 1

Following ITV's showing of 'The War on Democracy' last August, more than 10,000 viewers contacted this website to ask about DVD distribution of the film.

'The War on Democracy' was released on DVD in Britain, the US and Australia in January and February 2008. Distribution throughout the US is through Bullfrog, which has carried many of Pilger's collected films.

'The War on Democracy' features the music of the great Chilean balladeer Victor Jara and the legendary American soul singer Sam Cooke (pictured right).

John Pilger describes Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come' as "one of the finest, most lyrical pieces of black music ever written and performed. I was in the southern United States when it was released. It was the time of the civil-rights movement, and Cooke's song spoke to and for all people struggling to be free. The same is true of the ballads of the Jara, whose songs celebrated the popular democracy of Salvador Allende before Pinochet and the CIA extinguished it."

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[rickbar123]

From America

Hugo we love ya

[CachicamoVenezolano]

I don't think getting rid of Chavez will help the country, I'm 100% sure. The industry can't produce much thanks to the dollars regulations, the government owns billions in payments for importers. You go to a supermarket and much of the time there is no milk, coffee, sugar, beef, cheese, oil, grains, because its all regulated by the government. The dollars regulations have caused industries like GM to produce less than half the cars needed. Many companies have closed thanks to the state debt.

[TheMotherEagle]

@zt1900 every time i see a clip from Fox you have someone asking to have people murdered.

[zt1900]

"He should have been killed a long time ago"

YOU GREEDY INSATIABLE AMERICAN! You should have been killed a long time ago by whoever and whatever means necessary. Preferably long and painfull death. You should be stoned!

[OnePeopleOneChina]

Capitulate, or the USA will send in CIA to initiate a "People's Uprising" in your country too!

[christvbible]

@theunholysoul Shame on those who consciously work for armaments manufacturing, taking a big cut of the spoils of war while compromising their conscience. Here is a death certificate issued on behalf of the Forum for the Criminalisation of Weapons Manufacturers which you can view at a link I will give you, just contact me

[christvbible]

@theunholysoul Not only the School of Americas but the economic ethos that 'war means economic stability' which underscores economic theory taught in campuses around the world. We are surrounded by a matrix of pathologically disoriented minions of the war machine who between them drive the industrial growth that relies on WAR.

I am mapping the armaments industry and it is a monolithic blood thirsty hive of activity in which millions of people are carving out for themselves a notable lifestyle

[christvbible]

I've read Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine and it is one of many thousands of treatises on the subject of US / UK Military Industrial World Dominance. Engdhal's 'Full Spectrum Dominance' goes further and David Korten's 'When Corporations Rule the World' is a text book for research. Mark Curtis is good at deconstructing the holy image of the Media with his Web of Deceit and of course Noam Chomsky.

Folks! You have to read books. Get up early and read a couple of chapters each day It is empowering!

[cultofmao]

@theunholysoul Well said my friend :)

[ruizj2010]

long live Hugo Chavez!!!!

[daveeol]

@79charlesmartin well i think ill trust pilgers opinion over yours

[blacksheep185]

@79charlesmartin, well when the United States government attempts to overthrow you, you tend to get paranoid and think everyone is against you. He survived the iron "stabbing" by a U.S.-backed coup and now the government is pissing themselves cause Chavez was able to fight it. Who controls history? Of course you're gonna get an extremely negative picture of Chavez if you ask around in the States or if you ask people in Venezuela - don't ask the landowners or wealthy families, ask the poor.