John Pilger's first cinema release: "The War On Democracy"

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'THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY', JOHN PILGER'S FIRST CINEMA FILM, DUE FOR EARLY 2007 RELEASE
Two years in the making, 'The War on Democracy' is to be released in cinemas in the UK in early 2007, date to be decided. The distributor is Lions Gate Films which, in the UK and the US, has played a leading part in the new wave of feature-length documentaries.

'The War on Democracy' is John Pilger's first major film for the cinema - in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.

"The film tells a universal story,' says Pilger, "analysing 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". The ITV network will show the new film following its cinema debut.

http://www.johnpilger.com/

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2. It will likely not be warmly received in Washington, at least those whose interests dictate it.

If your money is made on exploiting other countries, of course you're going to think John Pilger is a two-bit hack.

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3. k&r for Pilger.

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4. Some of Pilger's other documentaries

Cambodia: The Betrayal
by John Pilger
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8001898387464764449&q=John Pilger
A 1990 followup to Pilger's documentary from the previous year. It details how Western governments (including Thatcher and Bush senior) were arming and supporting the Khmer Rouge, who at the time this documentary was made were on the cusp of retaking Cambodia and beginning a second genocide.


Stealing a Nation (2004)
by John Pilger
http://www.johnpilger.com
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6633024118233381439
http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=2012

"There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democractic facade, and helps us understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how governments often justify their actions with lies."
-- John Pilger

In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean. The aim was to give the principal island of this Crown Colony, Diego Garcia, to the Americans who wanted it as a major military base. Indeed, from Diego Garcia US planes have since bombed Afghanistan and Iraq. The story is told by islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and in the words of the British officials who left a 'paper trail' of what the International Criminal Court now describes as 'a crime against humanity'.


Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy
by John Pilger
http://www.johnpilger.com
http://www.chomskytorrents.org/TorrentDetails.php?TorrentID=139
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-9118496582943064758&q=John Pilger
John Pilger analyses the Indonesian invasion of 1975, exposing the genocide and Western complicity leading up to the vote of independence in 1999.
A power struggle between political parties within East Timor erupted into civil war in the summer of 1975.
In 1998, John Pilger and David Munro entered East Timor where 23 years earlier, a team of journalists, including Australian Greg Shackleton, were murdered by the Indonesian army for daring to question the validity of the invasion.

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