The Shock Doctrine

September. 01,2009

Rating：

7.6

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Economics Capitalism Neoliberalism

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Kieran O'Brien as Narrator (Voice)

Milton Friedman as Self

John Major as Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton as Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger as Self (archive footage)

Saddam Hussein as Self (archive footage)

Condoleezza Rice as Self (archive footage)

Barack Obama as Self (archive footage)

Alan Greenspan as Self (archive footage)

Boris Yeltsin as Self (archive footage)

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