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familiar section of the programme, it was also the most powerful and persuasive – because, once he was attacking his baddies, Pilger duly seemed on more solid ground. His recital, pretty polished by now, included chapter and verse on American involvement in torture, massacres and terrorism. He exposed (again) 'the epic lie' that this was done for the sake of democracy".
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that " recounts the shabby tale of how the postwar United States set about... inconvenient nationalisers in small countries" and criticsed his approach to Hugo Chavez saying "Maybe he thinks that questioning Chávez on this point would be playing into the hands of the smearmongers. Maybe. But he's in
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thought that while "Pilger stressed that Venezuela's potential utopia is under threat", he "made exactly the same claims for Chavez that he was making for the Sandinistas in Nicaragua" in the 1980s. In Pilger's account of US involvement in Latin America, Walton wrote, "while this was the most
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gave the film four out of five stars writing that it is a "a brilliantly-researched and sometimes shocking insight into the democratic position of those countries whose dealings with America are more along the lines of slave than political poodle".
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dereliction of his journalistic duty, just the same... But however posterity depicts , the truth of Pilger's overall story is plain enough.
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locations on 12 June 2007, including one that was followed by a question and answer session with co-director John Pilger.
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The film was produced over a two-year period. Carl Deal, chief archivist on the
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documentary filmed from within the Chavez camp during the failed coup of 2002.
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provided the archive footage used in the film. It is mastered in
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won the One World Media TV Documentary Award in 2008.
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The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
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Index


John Pilger
Granada Productions
Lions Gate
documentary film
John Pilger
Latin America
United States
War on Terrorism
Michael Moore
Fahrenheit 9/11
Bowling for Columbine
high-definition video
2007 Cannes Film Festival
Galway Film Festival
Australia
New Zealand
Fopp
review aggregator
Rotten Tomatoes
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
Empire
Andrew Billen
The Times
The Daily Telegraph
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
South of the Border
One World Media Awards
Archived

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