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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Lifting The Veil

Lifting The Veil from Metanoia is a must-see documentary, or at least the first part of it is. The entire film is available below. I can give the film my qualified endorsement (see below). This short description appears on the YouTube page.
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.

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