Toronto "Hot Docs Festival" hot with US Empire propaganda

What with all the buzz around that fabulous eye-opener about Jose Andres' NGO, World Central Kitchen, you can be forgiven for forgetting it's the product of the Hollywood branch of the American Esceptionalism cult. So here’s why I ended up flushing most of the day down the "We Feed People" rabbit hole. CBC had an interview with Jose Andres this morning, founder of NGO World Central Kitchen. Host Matt Galloway greeted him with the same credulous enthusiasm with which he greets debunked shills for Empire like Bill Browder and Elliot Higgins. Matt is a nice guy, but geopolitics is clearly not his bag. Jose was on to promote a new doc about World Central Kitchen. WCK is quick off the mark in bringing food relief to disaster zones. They had a team on the ground in Ukraine the day after the war started. In the course of the interview, Jose meandered into a little more ant-Putin editorialising than I would have expected of a non-biased humanitarian. The CEO of WCK is none other than Nate Mook, the very guy Bill Clinton tapped for a puff-doc on his humanitarianism. Not only that, he is also the executive producer of the documentary under discussion. Nate Mook has been a Dem party fave for ages. WCK is an extraordinarily well financed NGO, although you’ll be hard pressed to find details on specific donors in their financials. It’s a matter of public record that some authentic grass-roots NGOs have disassociated themselves from WCK on account of its proximity to the Department of Homeland Security and other US government entities. Looks like at least two of hottest docs at Hot Docs are straight out of the Empire's propaganda machine