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Posted By dissent 6 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsA Documentary Film By John Pilger
In 1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an end to decades of the corrupt US-backed Somoza dictatorship. They based their reformist ideology on that of the English Co-operative Movement, but was to prove too 'radical' for the Reagan administration.
In this film, Pilger describes the achievements of the Sandinistas and their "threat of a good example".
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
"my country is the world. and my religion is to ...
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AnteUp6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Zero comments? Geez, how sad. Maybe it's because it is a long
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video - even I will have to come back later to watch all of it -
but this is a very worthy subject. I include myself when I say
that IMO most Americans have no idea of our grisly history in
Central and South America........"spreading Democracy".
It would be a good thing to truly understand how the USA
disemboweled any Good Neighbor policy - not to fight Communism -
but for corporate interests. Ugly, brutal decades in which
we were "THE" major player.
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vettenut6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Yes, ignorance of the USA's treatment of our Latin American neighbors is dangerous.
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It is almost as dangerous as a British reporters slanted and biased portrayal of the situation in Nicaragua during and after the turbulent decades of the 70's and 80's.
Yes, Anastasio Somoza's reign as "President of Nicaragua" needed to be ended. After all, his policies were very self-serving, and he disregarded and de-valued the worth of Nicaraguans, especially the poor ones in that country.
But the sad thing is that Somoza has been replaced by Daniel Ortega and his cohorts, who have shown by their policies that, beside being consumed by hate for the USA, their policies are very self-serving, and they have disregarded and de-valued the worth of Nicaraguans, especially the poor ones in that country.
Same song, different singer................
How sad that Mr. Pilger does not do a follow-up interview this year. And this time, maybe he should do a factual and balanced one to offset the wrongfulness of the one he did more than two decades ago..........
And perhaps he could begin by at least learning to correctly pronounce the name of the country on which he is "reporting....."
NLOL!!!
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