"Forever Peace Now" documentary

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The documentary Forever Peace Now (directed by Vahid Razavi) exposes the complicity of major Silicon Valley tech companies with the arms and cybersecurity industries.

Key points of the documentary:

• Surveillance capitalism and war: Shows how tech corporations profit from global conflicts and accelerate the militarization of technology.

• Research and testimonies: The result of 16 years of research by Razavi (a former tech executive and human rights advocate), it includes interviews with experts and activists.

• Impact on human rights: Seeks to highlight how the power of these companies violates the basic rights of affected communities worldwide.

The documentary Forever Peace Now premiered globally on December 10, 2025, strategically coinciding with Human Rights Day.

Its initial in-person screening took place at the Novedades Community Theater in Santiago, Chile, and was subsequently distributed digitally and through international community and university screenings.

Technical details of the feature film:

• Director: Vahid Razavi.

• Story Editor: Jose Campos.

• Running time: 70 minutes.

• Original language: English.

• Year of production: 2025 (after a 16-year process of compiling material and conducting interviews).

• Featured participants: Includes testimonies from analyst and activist Norman Solomon, as well as the collaboration or support of members of organizations such as Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Veterans For Peace.

• Funding: Partially funded through crowdfunding campaigns on platforms such as Indiegogo.

The content of Forever Peace Now revolves around a central thesis: technology designed to connect us is being used as a weapon to profit from war.

Through the first-person perspective of its director, Vahid Razavi (a former technology executive), the documentary details how so-called "surveillance capitalism" fuels global conflicts.

The breakdown of its narrative and the themes it addresses includes the following points:
1. The Militarization of Silicon Valley
The documentary exposes the transition of Big Tech from being platforms for social innovation to becoming direct allies of defense ministries and military contractors. It reveals how algorithms, cloud storage, and advanced data systems are integrated into global espionage operations.

2. Artificial Intelligence on the Battlefield
The documentary addresses the alarming role of Artificial Intelligence in automating military objectives. Razavi shows how these massive data collection systems are tested in areas with active armed conflicts (directly denouncing the impact of algorithmically guided precision weapons on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip), serving as testing grounds for later exporting this technology to other wars.

3. Mass Surveillance and Citizen Control
The footage emphasizes that global intelligence agencies (like the NSA) leverage the commercial infrastructure we use daily (phones, emails, contacts) to invisibly violate digital rights and privacy globally, undermining the pillars of democracy.

4. The Film's "Ecosystem"
The documentary connects these international crises to the loss of corporate and institutional accountability. In fact, the film acts as a catalyst for a network of platforms created by the team (such as No Ethics in Big Tech, Parents Plea, and Ethics in Tech) that seek to transform the pain and loss caused by corporate abuses and wars into genuine human rights activism.