The Peace! DVD (2004)

A tribute to the 21st Century Peace Movement featuring the thinkers activists and leaders working to ensure a peaceful future: Harry Belafonte Noam Chomsky Angela Davis Ossie Davis Danny Glover Amy Goodman Jesse Jackson Jessica Lange Arno Mayer Greg Palast Scott Ritter Susan Sarandon Danny Schechter Pete Seeger Al Sharpton Norman Solomon Desmond Tutu Gore Vidal Howard Zinn Amnesty International FAIR Human Rights Watch Pacifica Foundation September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows The Nation Magazine United for Peace and Justice Veterans for Peace.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 881394500723 Manufacturer No: DOC50072 Product Description

Mindblowing!

Anyone who truly cares about freedom and democracy in the United States needs to watch this documentary. November 18, 2007

Feel Ashamed, Feel Very Ashamed!

If anybody has ever wondered what the thought processes of a self-righteous leftist are then I wholeheartedly recommend that they give this documentary a bit of their time. Every conspiracy theory found on the left side of the spectrum is on display here. I'm a little surprised at my fellow reviewers because they do not appear to have noticed that this film is entire based on interviews solely conducted with figures of the far left. Why would this be the case? Is the director that afraid of ideological diversity that they cannot allow for the expression of views contrary to their own? There is absolutely no attempt here to be fair and balanced; which is a concept of ridicule when it is expressed by Fox News but it is never practiced by radicals when they want to get their point across. Gore Vidal proclaims that Fox is an avenue that "screams and screams and screams" but that station always has on experts representing the leftist perspective.

Most of the ideas in this film are distortions and untruths. We find that Bush stole the election in Florida because he and Jeb disenfranchised 91,000 black and Hispanic voters because...they were black and Hispanic. Um, no, those individuals were convicted felons and there's no reason why criminals who declare war on the citizenry should be allowed to vote. We hear that 9/11 was all about oil and Haliburton as opposed to terrorists. We even find that overthrowing the Taliban was a bad idea...and about oil too. The main "investigative journalist" even blames Bush for the Khobar Towers attacks despite the fact that they occurred in 1996. For those who don't know, George W. Bush was not inaugurated until 2001. Bill Clinton's eight year passive stance with Al Qaeda is not even mentioned. The Peace! fails at every level as portraying your opponents views dishonestly creates propaganda as opposed to history. This movie was an embarrassment from beginning to end as the filmmakers "evidence" relies on the opinions of radical icons--like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal--and no figures from the center or right at all. This movie is a joke and an appalling corruption of history. July 2, 2007

the real agenda

I have rented and seen perhaps 30 videos concerning the reasons for our involvement in Middel Eastern conflects. This "The Peace DVD", is far and away the most percise, and well explained, documantery I have seen on this subject to date. I think everyone, in the house and senate, should review this DVD and report to the American People, on their justifications
for voting for our involvement, in this unholy & genesidal, conflict.
May God have mercy on our souls, for truly it is, "We The People" who will be judged, if not, for our direct involvement, then shurly by our complacence.
April 2, 2007

Extraordinary, Serious, Worth Every Penny and Every Minute

As the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, I have started to discover what I call "serious DVDs" (and have a list by that name). This is the latest serious DVD to make the grade with me.

Based on interviews with leading authorities on peace, democracy, and the subversion of democracy, this is an extraordinary documentary. Here are some of the highlights:

1) Standard prior to 9/11 for intercepting a hijacked airplane was four minutes. Under Dick Cheney that morning, managing a nation-wide exercise, it extended to one hour and twenty minutes, and the only plane successfully knocked down was knocked down by citizens armed with cell phone, not military aircraft subverted by Dick Cheney.

2) Human rights for the US are a fraud. The US supports Saudi Arabia, Egypt, over 40 dictators, and only uses human rights as subterfuge for deceiving its own citizens.

3) US is hypocritical on democracies, and one speaker makes the telling point, if Bush was willing to steal the Florida election and subvert democracy in Florida and the USA, why should anyone believe him on wanting to put democracy into Iraq?

4) The Bush-Cheney Administration is the problem, but they became the problem because the US media, owned by corporations in league with the Bush Administration, decided not to do its duty of truth finding and truth telling.

5) America's proudest tradition is that of freedom of speech, or freedom to speak out. That is gone now among most of the population. Dissent has been repressed if not criminalized, and a false sense of emergency and patriotism used to stifle legitimate dissent.

6) Lost in the middle of the documentary is the thought that people can make a difference, and by simply standing up if not speaking out, they can empower and protect those who are true patriots willing to question authority.

7) The movie points out that 90% of the causalities in all US-driven wars are civilians, and this alone is cause to dissent from elective wars.

8) The movie featured disabled US veterans from Iraq testifying that those who protest the elective war justified on a fabric of lies, are the true patriots, the true representatives of the ideals of the Founding Fathers.

9) Over-all the documentary is a TREMENDOUS catalog of anti-war and pro-peace demonstrations that took place across America, but were never reported by the captive mainstream media.

10) Al Sharpton shines in one part of the film.

11) On screen are listed hundreds of US incursions and military actions against as many countries, most without any declaration of war or sanction from Congress.

12) Among the passing points toward the end of the film: United Nations may be dead for failing to prevent US invasion of Iraq; US elite is definitely flexing its muscles and may be in great fear of an international "controlling authority" on war crimes and predatory capitalism' 9-11 was a "god-send" that allowed the Bush-Cheney Administration to use 9-11 as a "license to kill;" Iraq is not the issue, the issue is the split between the unilateral militarism of the USA and its "new Europe" dictator friends, and the more worldly balanced "old Europe" trying to avoid conflict.

13) Overall the documentary concludes that the Bush II programs are quite harmful to the public interest, and that the US has been unique in fearing Saddam Hussein when no other country in the world did so (see my review of "The One Percent Doctrine."

14) The books ends on two very thoughtful notes: that the common people do not want war because their best hope is to get back alive, while the elites promote war as a way of profiteering from war; and second, that we are teaching the world that they NEED weapons of mass destruction as a threat against a USA run amok.

15) The documentary made excellent use of the music and lyrics of AVE MARIA, to the point that I have ordered the best DVD available, and now consider AVE MARIA to be the anti-war and pro-peace musical rendition of the century.

This is a serious documentary, well worth buying and well worth watching. A solid effort.
August 24, 2006

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