Exposed: The Carlyle Group

This highly enlightening documentary film uncovers the subversion of what's left of democracy in America
Tegenlicht / VPRO Netherlands TV 25jan04

Run time: 54:24

PLEASE NOTE: Translation from Dutch (below) of the first one minute forty seven seconds of this program.
The remainder of the video is in English. [High Bandwidth alternative. Or just listen to an MP3 audio of the soundtrack]

The war in Iraq is over.

The rubble is still smoking While the first dozers are already entering the country.
After the coalition forces destroyed Baghdad it is now primarily American companies who are to rebuild Iraq.

An interesting point is that these companies usually have people on the payroll who have been politicians. Is this a conflict of interests or a new (global) way of doing business?

One of the corporations that work this way is the Carlyle Group. On their payroll are people like : George Bush (Sr.), James Baker III and old premier John Major.

The Carlyle Group is a private investment bank which doesn't come to the publics attention very often but it is one of the biggest American (ed: USA) investors of the defense industry, telecom, property and financial services.

What is the Carlyle Group? Who are the people behind the name? And how much power does Carlyle have?

source: http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/16152392/ 4nnov04

 

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