Stories by Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein's latest book is The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
There is nothing undemocratic about pushing through a set of radical policies that will actually solve the crisis.
Posted on Jun 13, 2009
To produce programs capable of meeting the current crises, we are all going to have to stop hoping and start demanding.
Posted on Apr 18, 2009
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 Feb 6, 2009
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 Jan 9, 2009
Washington's handling of the bailout is not merely incompetent. It may well be illegal.
Posted on Nov 14, 2008
Terrible looting of public capital has a habit of taking place during periods of dramatic political transition, and Bush has one underway.
Posted on Nov 6, 2008
The bailout has been designed to keep stealing from the Treasury for years to come.
Posted on Oct 31, 2008
Responding to critics from the libertarian Cato institute and
The New Republic.
Posted on Sep 11, 2008
The Olympics have opened up a backdoor for the regime to massively upgrade its systems of population control and repression.
Posted on Aug 8, 2008
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 Jul 4, 2008
The head of Obama's economic policy team is one of Wal-Mart's most prominent defenders.
Posted on Jun 19, 2008
Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position.
Posted on Apr 1, 2008
The Mexican government appears poised for another wave of repression.
Posted on Dec 23, 2007
The shameless exploitation of poor New Orleans residents to privatize public infrastructure is being enforced by violence and tasers.
Posted on Dec 22, 2007
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 Dec 3, 2007
The jolts of global economics blast people out of the picture.
Posted on Nov 22, 2007
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 14, 2007
With disaster services being privatized, the rich are buying their way out of catastrophe.
Posted on Nov 3, 2007
Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used.
Posted on Oct 25, 2007
The Blackwater scandal could have provided an opportunity to question the wisdom of turning state security into a for-profit activity -- but not in today's Washington.
Posted on Oct 23, 2007
Greenspan's new autobiography sheds light on what motivates hard-right political leaders to apply brutal economic shock therapy.
Posted on Sep 29, 2007
This excerpt from Naomi Klein's controversial new book, "The Shock Doctrine," explains how the U.S. set about to destroy the Iraqi national psyche and then push through a disastrous privatization of its economy.
Posted on Sep 14, 2007
Political protesters are now being videotaped under the guise of ensuring their legal right to be seen and heard. What happens when surveillance is billed as the new participatory democracy?
Posted on Aug 28, 2007
Why, in the midst of so much volatility, is the Israeli economy booming? They've engineered a "homeland security" economy that they've tested out on the people of Gaza.
Posted on Jun 19, 2007
The Iraq War has set off one of the largest oil booms in history -- and the race to mine the tar sands of Alberta will result in environmental disaster.
Posted on Jun 1, 2007
Let's not repeat the absurd narrative that Wolfowitz's indiscretions have ruined an otherwise laudable antipoverty organization.
Posted on Apr 28, 2007
The jury selection for the trial of a Canadian press baron accused of looting shareholder earnings reveals popular discontent with the corporate elite.
Posted on Mar 30, 2007
America has deliberately driven hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prisoners insane. Now it is being held to account in a Miami court.
Posted on Feb 26, 2007
Developers angling for New Orleans contracts dream of a new, whiter city in the hurricane's wake.
Posted on Sep 27, 2005
The words of one of the alleged July 21 bombers in London reveal that the war on Iraq is exactly the opposite of what Bush predicted -- and exactly what progressives feared.
Posted on Aug 15, 2005
Torture's true purpose is to terrorize. It may not work as an interrogation tool, but as an intimidation tactic, its success is clear.
Posted on May 14, 2005
We need to offer a detailed and responsible exit strategy in order to draw the majority of Americans who oppose the war into the anti-war movement.
Posted on May 10, 2005
A government devoted to perpetual pre-emptive deconstruction now has a standing office of perpetual pre-emptive reconstruction.
Posted on Apr 18, 2005
The problem is not that Iraqis have lost faith in the democracy for which they risked their lives on Jan. 30 – it's that the electoral system imposed on them by Washington is profoundly undemocratic.
Posted on Mar 11, 2005
Near-sighted election observers think the Iraqi people have finally sent America those long-awaited flowers and candies, when Iraq's voters just gave them the (purple) finger.
Posted on Feb 11, 2005
The election appears to have ushered in an orgy of impunity for the administration's – and soldiers' – actions in Iraq. Is Kerry to blame?
Posted on Nov 29, 2004
Fallujans are going to vote, goddammit, even if they all have to die first.
Posted on Nov 10, 2004
Bush's special envoy is asking countries to forgive Iraq's debts even as he tries to recover $27 billion from Iraq on behalf of the Carlyle Group.
Posted on Oct 13, 2004
There is only one chance for Americans to express their wholehearted rejection of the ongoing war on Iraq: in the streets outside the Republican National Convention.
Posted on Aug 27, 2004
The Bush administration's talk of moral clarity falls dumb before the grief of those who have lost children in Iraq.
Posted on Jul 9, 2004
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