CIA

RealNews reports on the US/UK relationship with Uzbekistan in Central Asia before and after 9/11. (17 min)

A History Channel documentary on LSD and psychedelic drugs. The video quality is not so hot but the excellent content makes it worth the price of admittance. (46 min)

Award winning John Pilger examines the role of Washington in manipulating Latin American politics during the last 50 years leading up to the struggle by ordinary people to free themselves from poverty and racism. (92 min)

An excellent independent documentary on the history of LSD concentrating on the power it has on people and society which led directly to why the U.S. government controls it’s use and distribution. ( 40 min in 4 segments)

John Pilger made 52 documentaries, many about the American empire and the resistance it has met. He joins Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! to speak of the struggles he has covered with excerpts from his recent documentaries. (35 min in 4 segments)

In 1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an end to decades of the corrupt and brutal US-backed Somoza dictatorship. In this 1983 film, John Pilger describes the achievements of the Sandinistas and their “threat of a good example”.

In 1954, the CIA under Eisenhower and Nixon waged psychological warfare against the people and government of Guatemala. Then they staged a coup and put their man in power to control this Banana Republic. (42 minutes in 5 segments)