The Ken Loach Revolution and George Clooney’s Duplicity

Sometime in the past few weeks, American actor and film director George Clooney was arrested in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington for participating in a protest. After being released, Clooney said, “We are trying to bring attention to an on-going emergency…. One of those ways was apparently getting arrested.”

Through the eyes of someone who doesn’t know him, Clooney would seem to be a humanitarian. If you do a bit of research on Clooney, however, you will find that he is a representative of all of the wars, massacres, famines and squalor that take place in Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Latin America, Africa and anywhere else in the world. How? In 2010, Clooney became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an imperialistic think tank that guides U.S. foreign policy. What’s more, he made himself a “lifetime member.”

Readers of Milli Gazete will remember the Council on Foreign Relations being mentioned in our book “Secret World Government.” However much it portrays itself as “objective” and “disinterested in profit,” the CFR is a government establishment like Britain’s Chatham House. [Editor’s Note: Chatham House is actually an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization based in London: www.chathamhouse.org.] A large portion of the members are government officials and members of Congress. There are other high-profile members, such as CIA officials, top-level media executives, bankers, academics and even secretaries of state. David Rockefeller is the Honorary Chairman of the organization. Remember the Rockefeller name from Bilderberg. Rockefeller is also a member of this organization, which meets once a year in a different country to discuss world events and keeps all of its discussions secret.

Rockefeller and the CFR are basically running American foreign policy on their own — from Israel’s terrorism of the Middle East to the colonization of Iraq and Afghanistan, to the bloody toppling of democratically-elected governments in Latin America. In fact, it was the CFR that convinced then-President Jimmy Carter to allow Mohammad Reza Pehlevi into the United States following the Iranian Revolution.

Now let us return to George Clooney. As a lifetime member of the CFR, a tool of global Zionism, he is merely a pawn trying pass himself off as a “humanitarian” before the public eye in order to secure the continuation of the global system of exploitation. If he was truly a revolutionary, he would come out against the inhumane policies of Israel and Europe, which are extensions of America. If we want to talk about a revolutionary from the cinema and film sector, it’s not George Clooney. It would be, without a doubt, director Ken Loach. He has won hundreds of prizes and has made very harsh criticisms of human rights violations committed by the U.S., his native England and Israel. Sometimes you can catch him in venues in small London districts preaching against Israeli imperialism, making anti-war demonstrations or boycotting certain film festivals because they are sponsored by Israel.

Most recently, he sent a letter to director Richard Moore when he learned that Israel was one of the sponsors of Australia’s Melbourne Film Festival. In the letter, Loach said:

“Dear Richard Moore,

As you are no doubt aware, many Palestinians, including artists and academics, have called for a boycott of events supported by Israel. There are many reasons for this; the illegal occupation of Palestinian land, destruction of homes and livelihoods, the massacres in Gaza, all are part of the continuing oppression of the Palestinian people.

We have no alternative but to respond to their appeal for help.

The Israeli poet, Aharon Shabtai, has said, ‘I do not believe that a state that maintains an occupation, committing on a daily basis crimes against civilians, deserves to be invited to any kind of cultural event.’

This is not a boycott of independent Israeli films or filmmakers but of the Israeli state.

We hope you can reconsider accepting Israel as a sponsor. If not, then we feel obliged to withdraw our film, Looking For Eric, from the festival.”

Upon receiving a negative reply to his letter, he wrote a second letter to Moore, saying:

“The cultural boycott called for by the Palestinians means that remaining sympathetic but detached observers is no longer an option. You either support the boycott or break it.”

It is clear from the above excerpts that Loach is boycotting the Melbourne Film Festival due to Israel’s sponsorship. This shows that he is a true revolutionary. There is no need, on the other hand, to say that George Clooney is duplicitous. For this reason, we wish Ken Loach well for keeping the true revolutionary spirit alive.