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[documentary] What I've Learned About US Foreign Policy...

submitted by hoju

1 decade 7 years 5 months 2 weeks ago

the war against the third world

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