FORMER CIA AGENT: U.S. WAGES WAR ON DEMOCRACY

For decades, the CIA has actively worked to suppress sovereign states that dared to chart independent paths. Under the guise of protecting ‘freedom’ and 'countering communism', the US systematically destabilised governments, assassinated revolutionary leaders, and installed puppet leaders that would serve US geopolitical and economic interests, particularly across the Global South.

This clip from late journalist John Pilger’s documentary, ‘The War on Democracy' (2007), explores Washington's overt and covert interventions that toppled a series of legitimate governments in its war against self-determination across the Americas and Africa.

Pilger (1939-2023) interviewed several former CIA agents who admitted their roles in secret campaigns against democratic countries abroad.

From the brutal overthrow and assassination of Congo's Patrice Lumumba (1925-61)—whose vision for a united, self-determined Africa posed a threat to Western exploitation—to the toppling of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah (1909-72)—a champion of Pan-Africanism—the CIA's fingerprints demonstrate the US was stamping out democracy before it could fully bloom. This is proof that the so-called 'defenders of democracy' really k*lled African freedom. The assassinations and regime change were part of a broader imperial strategy to ensure newly independent states remained subordinate to Western powers, especially when their leaders pursued non-aligned or socialist policies.

Video credit: ‘The War On Democracy,’ John Pilger (@johnpilger on X) (2007)

Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gNcQZSmG9Y

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000572911.pdf

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/1/17/symbol-of-resistance-lumumba-the-congolese-hero-killed-before-his-prime