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The Shock Doctrine

Name: The Shock Doctrine
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-09-01
Cast: Kieran O'Brien, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, John Major, Bill Clinton

Documentary

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance.

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Cast

Kieran O'BrienNaomi KleinMilton FriedmanJohn MajorBill ClintonHenry KissingerSaddam HusseinCondoleezza RiceBarack ObamaAlan GreenspanBoris YeltsinMargaret Thatcher

Director

Michael Winterbottom

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