“We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population...our real task in the coming period is to...maintain this position of disparity. We
should cease to talk about such vague and unreal objectives as human
rights, the raising of living standards and democratization.” 24
February 1948, Document PPS23 |
Those words, so clearly articulated by the man many consider to be the architect of post-World War II U.S. foreign policy, form the backbone of In Whose Interest? a film that examines the chasm between the rhetoric put forth by the U.S. government and the U.S. media and the realities behind the motives and effects of its foreign policy.
The film is a fast moving and powerful 27-minute documentary film in response to 9/11.
London-based filmmaker David Kaplowitz leads us on an eye-opening historical journey through the past 50+ years of United States intervention, questioning the motives and examining the effects of US foreign policy over that time span, and looking at the realities of U.S. foreign policy versus the rhetoric.
Revealing a pattern of intervention, the film focuses on Guatemala, Vietnam, East Timor, El Salvador, and Palestine/ Israel.
Archive footage, photographs, recently declassified documents, and media tidbits are dynamically interwoven with personal eyewitness accounts and commentary from academics (such as Noam Chomsky), religious leaders and politicians.
In
Whose Interest is informative and disturbingly honest, yet upbeat,
with twists of irony and humor.