I would consider this required viewing for every American. This is not Alex Jones or tinfoil hat stuff - this is the documented history of the evil and suffering that the American government, through the CIA and other covert means, has inflicted upon our planet. The trend is always the same: the target countries are always poor third world countries, people that nobody cares about. The reasons are always the same: the continuance of American hegemony in the name of the corporate and military industrial masters of America.
The documentary itself is actually a number of other documentaries edited and spliced together. The interesting thing is that I hadn't seen a single one before this. The whole thing is extremely long, and I highly doubt that many people in the "football in the groin" set will find it interesting, but there are so many amazing parallels that you see when you watch something like this, where everything is pulled together.
The middle does drag a bit, and as sad as it sounds, the story begins to repeat itself a little. What is stunning is how eerily familiar the media clips and soundbytes about past conflicts mirror the current Iraq conflict. If you do get bored, skip to the end, where the two final segments are an interesting speech from Ramsey Clarke and a fascinating look at a man named Brian Goodman.
Here is a brief list of countries that America has fucked over, all mentioned in this documentary:
Angola
Egypt
Iran
Guatemala
Korea
Laos
Zaire
Dominican Rep
Vietnam
Bolivia
Brazil
Indonesia
Ghana
Greece
Cambodia
Chile
Argentina
East Timor
el Salvador
Nicaragua
Panama
Iraq
How many millions dead, either directly or indirectly due to American actions? I think the question that all Americans need to ask is: are we really the good guys?
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Update Feb 2008:
Google video kept taking this down, but someone has taken the time to break it up and put it onto youtube. I linked the overall playlist, but if that breaks down, here are the individual links:
part 1/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payA-lO_jLM part 2/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssMwvqUK2ZM part 3/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnd2b_fm26c part 4/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNCnJ-7r0IQ part 5/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T7qToBeIuI part 6/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUStXPu_qDo part 7/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3heFMPTYtQo part 8/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufi8EZDR9lc part 9/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKsN7wSzdw part 10/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxvfWMAB0_U part 11/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8cyWhnXqg part 12/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-AUCENMNEo part 13/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHNcAmmtmY part 14/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6aZayJHbY0 part 15/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkpQ36u8qfw part 16/16:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OUm96tNDfE
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