This Is The World As It Is

Name: This Is The World As It Is
Uploaded: 2015-07-01T08:35:58
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Description: This is the truth about the world today: not as it should be, or how it was taught to us in schools, but as it really is. The 5 minute clip is from OBEY (2013), a film based on the book "Death of the Liberal Class" by journalist and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges. Watch the film online here. Watch more about capitalism's 'Sacrifice Zones'.

This is the truth about the world today: not as it should be, or how it was taught to us in schools, but as it really is. The 5 minute clip is from OBEY (2013), a film based on the book "Death of the Liberal Class" by journalist and Pulitzer prize winner, Chris Hedges. Watch the film online here. Watch more about... read more

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