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The Shock Doctrine (2009)

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Posted by Films For Action on Feb. 13, 2011

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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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