{"id":1459,"date":"2011-03-11T16:52:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2013-01-25T17:15:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T23:15:14","slug":"larry-pinkney-review-of-lifting-the-veil-barack-obama-and-the-failure-of-capitalist-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blackactivistwg.org\/blog\/larry-pinkney-review-of-lifting-the-veil-barack-obama-and-the-failure-of-capitalist-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Pinkney Film Review of Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the Failure of Capitalist “Democracy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metanoia Films<\/em>\u00a0film review by\u00a0The Black Commentator’s<\/em>\u00a0Larry Pinkney of Scott Noble’s film, Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the Failure of Capitalist “Democracy”<\/em>,\u00a0Metanoia Films (http:\/\/metanoia-films.org, 2011<\/a>):<\/p>\n

“Lifting the Veil is the long overdue film that powerfully, definitively, and finally exposes the deadly 21st century hypocrisy of U.S. internal and external policies, even as it imbues the viewer with a sense of urgency and an actualized hope to bring about real systemic change while there is yet time for humanity and this planet. See this film!” <\/strong><\/p>\n

– Larry Pinkney Editorial Board Member & Columnist The Black Commentator<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n

Larry Pinkney<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil\/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil\/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania\/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book,\u00a0Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker<\/a>, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to read excerpts from the book.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Metanoia Films\u00a0film review by\u00a0The Black Commentator’s\u00a0Larry Pinkney of Scott Noble’s film, Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the Failure of Capitalist “Democracy”,\u00a0Metanoia Films (http:\/\/metanoia-films.org, 2011<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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