Stories by Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and syndicated columnist and the author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (September 2007); an earlier international best-seller, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies; and the collection Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (2002). Read more at Naomiklein.org. You can follow her on Twitter @naomiaklein.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012, Source: The Nation
The author of 'Shock Doctrine' interviews political organizer Yotam Marom about the future of the Occupy movement.
Posted on Nov 27, 2011, Source: The Nation
Deniers have concluded that fighting climate change can only happen by reordering our economic and political systems in ways antithetical to their “free market” belief system.
Posted on Oct 6, 2011, Source: The Nation
"The task of our time is to insist that we can afford to build a decent, inclusive society -- while at the same time, respect the real limits to what the earth can take."
Posted on Aug 17, 2011, Source: The Nation
When you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance.
Posted on Jul 27, 2011, Source: NaomiKlein.org
Global warming's possible role in a Montana environmental disaster.
Posted on Apr 8, 2011, Source: AlterNet
We need to rebuild the kind of mass movement that marked 1970: bodies, passion, and creativity are the currencies we can compete in. It's not impossible.
Posted on Mar 9, 2011, Source: Democracy Now!
For decades right-wing ideologues have exploited crises to push through an agenda that has nothing to do with resolving those crises. Wisconsin is no different.
Posted on Feb 3, 2011, Source: The Nation
The Goldstone Report is a serious, fair-minded and extremely disturbing document -- which is precisely why the Israeli strategy has been to avoid the substance of the report.
Posted on Jan 13, 2011, Source: The Nation
As the gulf is declared "safe," scientists look deep in the sea for evidence of lasting damage.
Posted on Sep 14, 2010, Source: GRITtv
In this interview, Klein explains how we can channel growing rage in this country and in the world into a true progressive movement.
Posted on Jun 28, 2010, Source: The Nation
The BP disaster shows how little control even the most ingenious among us have over the intricately interconnected natural forces with which we so casually meddle.
Posted on Apr 23, 2010, Source: The Nation
When Morales invited "social movements and Mother Earth's defenders" to a new kind of climate summit, it was an attempt to build a base of power behind the right to survive.
Posted on Mar 4, 2010, Source: The Nation
Wall Street Journal columnist makes an attempt to rewrite history that Chile's "free-market" dictator Augusto Pinochet can be thanked for preventing destruction there.
Posted on Feb 9, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Tim DeChristopher is facing 10 years in jail for a profound gesture made on behalf of all of us and our future. It's time to show our solidarity with him.
Posted on Jan 18, 2010, Source: Fourth Estate
Ten years after the publication of "No Logo", Klein looks at how Obama created a brand that won him the Presidency. Will his failure to live up to his lofty brand cost him?
Posted on Dec 21, 2009, Source: TheNation.com
No President since FDR has been handed as many opportunities to transform the U.S. into something that doesn't threaten the stability of life on this planet. Is he blowing it?
Posted on Nov 21, 2009, Source: Picador Press
In the new introduction to the re-release of her classic book, 'No Logo,' Klein explores how ad culture has thrived and adapted in the past decade.
Posted on Nov 16, 2009, Source: The Nation
Ten years after the Seattle protests, climate activists are poised to make the U.N. climate change summit their "growing up party."
Posted on Sep 25, 2009, Source: The Nation
Moore discusses his new documentary film, widely praised as a call for a revolt against capitalist madness.
Posted on Sep 15, 2009, Source: The Guardian
The summer of 2009 was all about race, and Obama has little to lose by using this brief political window of racial animus to heal a few of the country's racial wounds.
Posted on Jul 30, 2009, Source: The Progressive
Capitalism can survive this crisis. But the world can't survive another capitalist comeback.
Posted on Jun 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
There is nothing undemocratic about pushing through a set of radical policies that will actually solve the crisis.
Posted on Apr 18, 2009, Source: The Nation
To produce programs capable of meeting the current crises, we are all going to have to stop hoping and start demanding.
Posted on Feb 6, 2009, Source: The Nation
Governments that respond to a crisis created by free-market ideology with the same bad ideas will not survive to tell the tale.
Posted on Jan 9, 2009, Source: The Nation
To end the bloody occupation, Israel should become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to South Africa's apartheid.
Posted on Nov 14, 2008, Source: The Nation
Washington's handling of the bailout is not merely incompetent. It may well be illegal.
Posted on Nov 6, 2008, Source: NaomiKlein.org
Terrible looting of public capital has a habit of taking place during periods of dramatic political transition, and Bush has one underway.
Posted on Oct 31, 2008, Source: The Nation
The bailout has been designed to keep stealing from the Treasury for years to come.
Posted on Sep 11, 2008, Source: NaomiKlein.org
Responding to critics from the libertarian Cato institute and The New Republic.
Posted on Aug 8, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
The Olympics have opened up a backdoor for the regime to massively upgrade its systems of population control and repression.
Posted on Jul 4, 2008, Source: The Nation
The Iraq disaster and rising gas and food prices have people across the globe in a state of fear and shock. It's high times for Bush & Co.
Posted on Jun 19, 2008, Source: The Nation
The head of Obama's economic policy team is one of Wal-Mart's most prominent defenders.
Posted on Apr 1, 2008, Source: The Guardian
Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position.
Posted on Dec 23, 2007, Source: The Nation
The Mexican government appears poised for another wave of repression.
Posted on Dec 22, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
The shameless exploitation of poor New Orleans residents to privatize public infrastructure is being enforced by violence and tasers.
Posted on Dec 3, 2007, Source: The Nation
In the world of venture capitalism, there has been a race going on between greens on the one hand and guns and garrisons on the other -- and the guns are winning.
Posted on Nov 22, 2007, Source: Los Angeles Times
The jolts of global economics blast people out of the picture.
Posted on Nov 14, 2007, Source: The Nation
Recent events in Latin America show how societies can recover from extreme capitalism and become less vulnerable to externally provoked political shocks.
Posted on Nov 3, 2007, Source: The Nation
With disaster services being privatized, the rich are buying their way out of catastrophe.
Posted on Oct 25, 2007, Source: Comment Is Free
Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used.
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