Docs to watch

25Sep09

First up, American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein:

There’s a good review in the Daily Star, which begins:

‘A dissenting voice is a peculiar thing. For those with a stake in a political status quo, the more contentious the issue, the more the dissident must be silenced. How this is done depends on how confidently the political class controls the state.The more insecure the political class, as conventional readings would have it, the more likely it will resort to imprisonment and execution to eliminate domestic dissent. When the political class is secure – or faces institutional obstacles to the use of arbitrary coercion – it must resort to discrediting and ostracizing the dissenting voice.

“American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein” is in many ways a study in how the American political class – specifically the segment of this class that advocates Israel’s state of exception in American foreign policy – goes about silencing its dissidents…’

Also, Michael Moore’s new film Capitalism: A Love Story is about to drop, and if his interview on Democracy Now! is anything to go by it could be his best yet. Here’s the trailer:

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