Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy {Full Film}

[Charleston Chew]

Run time: 113:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzULm4d8h8w   Posted on YouTube: March 12, 2011 By YouTube Member: styles911truth Views on YouTube: 2262   Posted on DU: March 19, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 841

 
Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy


“Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist democracy”, this film explores the historical role of the Democratic Party as the “graveyard of social movements”, the massive influence of corporate finance in elections, the absurd disparities of wealth in the United States, the continuity and escalation of neocon policies under Obama, the insufficiency of mere voting as a path to reform, and differing conceptions of democracy itself.

Original interview footage derives from Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Michael Albert, John Stauber (PR Watch), Sharon Smith (Historian), William I. Robinson (Editor, Critical Globalization Studies), Morris Berman (Author, Dark Ages America), and famed black panther Larry Pinkney.

Non-original interviews/lectures include Michael Hudson, Paul Craig Roberts, Ted Rall, Richard Wolff, Glen Ford, Lewis Black, Glenn Greenwald, George Carlin, Gerald Cliente, Chris Hedges, John Pilger, Bernie Sanders, Sheldon Wollin and Martin Luther King.

Visit http://metanoia-films.org/compilations.php for more info.

"Lifting the Veil is the long overdue film that powerfully, definitively, and finally exposes the deadly 21st century hypocrisy of U.S. internal and external policies, even as it imbues the viewer with a sense of urgency and an actualized hope to bring about real systemic change while there is yet time for humanity and this planet. See this film!" - Larry Pinkney - Editorial Board Member & Columnist - The Black Commentator

Viewer discretion advised - Video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war.

[stockholmer]

1. K & R +100

:thumbsup:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. We are so fucked that we don't even have the slightest idea how fucked we are. nt

[swilton]

3. I couldn't say it any better than that!

Thanks for posting this film!

[vroomvroom]

4. K&R

[Charleston Chew]

5. please share with others

[democracy1st]

6. Wow that was powerful! K & R