Lifting the Veil: 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.
“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.
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