The End of Poverty? Maps Post-Colonial Injustice
By Andrew Schenker
Colonialism is always part of the expansion of capitalism,” opines Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera in The End of Poverty?, director Philippe Diaz‘s devastating, radical critique of the colonialist enterprise as inextricable from the current global economic model.
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Today, Philippe Diaz (director of The End of Poverty? and founder of Cinema Libre Studio) and John Perkins (The Economic Hitman, also featured in The End of Poverty?) were on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.

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Thomas Pochari  interviews Philippe Diaz, director of The End of Poverty?, on the radio show World Affairs Monthly.
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22 October 2009 [MEDIAGLOBAL]: Philippe Diaz’s documentary The End of Poverty?, set to premiere nationwide on Nov. 13, 2009, indicts the free market system as it follows its creation from colonialism to modernity, laying the blame for the present poverty pandemic.
From the United States to France, Brazil to Tanzania and beyond, Diaz’s documentary reveals over 500 years of colonialism, slavery, and capitalism that has led to the impoverished state of billions today. The End of Poverty? includes interviews with Nobel prize-winning economists, political scientists, and bankers, as well as Bolivian …

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The End of Poverty?, directed by Philippe Diaz and narrated by Martin Sheen, is an eye-opening look at the history of capitalism, an economic system that the film claims has created a shocking imbalance of wealth and poverty worldwide.
The documentary posits that global poverty has been a result of military conquests and slavery and colonization movements dating back to 1492 that saw the seizure of land, forced labor, and extraction of natural resources. Problems persist today because of a one-sided relationship between rich and poor nations, with the latter suffering …

“…the film’s studied outlining of Europe’s conquest of Asia, Africa and the Americas — and, with that, the destruction of indigenous cultures — is inherently infuriating in its critique of colonialism, capitalism, and political systems that stoke the world’s poverty. The far-left politics of many of the talking heads will be refreshing to some viewers and infuriating to others, but Diaz’s clear-eyed look at how cultures of despair and dependency are created and maintained is alone worth the price of admission.”
By Ernest Hardy, LA Weekly
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This amazing movie not only explains how global inequality has its roots in 1492, but also allows the victims of “Western civilization” to speak for themselves. Indeed, the movie will remind you of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous reply to a Western reporter who asked him what he thought of Western civilization. He answered, “I think it would be a good idea.”
Read full review here.