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.com.
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, Source: The Nation
Fallujans are going to vote, goddammit, even if they all have to die first.
Posted on Nov 10, 2004, Source: AlterNet
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, Source: The Nation
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, Source: The Nation
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, Source: AlterNet
George Bush's "war on terror" has created a tool kit for any mini-empire looking to get rid of its opposition.
Posted on Sep 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
It turns out that the lives of some US citizens are valued more than others. Nothing demonstrates this more starkly than the opposing responses to Rachel Corrie and Jessica Lynch.
Posted on May 27, 2003, Source: The Guardian
Todd Gitlin's "Letters to a Young Activist" passes, patronizingly, negative lessons full of useless bitterness, says this reviewer. PLUS:
Port Huron Statement vet Dick Flacks reviews two new books on "participatory democracy."Posted on Apr 25, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The American blueprint for Iraq goes far beyond rebuilding infrastructure, envisioning a fully privatized and foreign-owned country.
Posted on Apr 15, 2003, Source: The Nation
The Pentagon is busy trying to persuade Iraqis not to cooperate with their own government. It's time American citizens did the same.
Posted on Mar 3, 2003, Source: AlterNet
The left needs to get serious about tackling anti-Semitism. Otherwise, the rise of hatred against Jews will only makes the likes of Ariel Sharon more powerful.
Posted on May 2, 2002, Source: In These Times
When the White House decided it was time to address the rising tides of anti-Americanism around the world, it hired one of Madison Avenue's top brand managers.
Posted on Mar 13, 2002, Source: AlterNet
Do the public floggings at the World Economic Forum represent true progress? No, true progress can be found in a small city in Brazil.
Posted on Feb 13, 2002, Source: TomPaine.com
Anti-corporate protesters who once aimed at powerful symbols of capitalism -- like the World Trade Center -- have found themselves in a transformed landscape.
Posted on Oct 10, 2001, Source: The Nation
Collateral damage is the jargon used to describe the unintended consequences of war. Now is the time to focus on this damage -- in its relation to the U.S.'s conduct during the Cold and Persian Gulf wars.
Posted on Sep 18, 2001, Source: AlterNet
War is most emphatically not a game, but until September 11, most Americans treated it like it was. Perhaps Tuesday's attacks finally ended the era of the video game war.
Posted on Sep 13, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Companies trying to rebrand themselves as good corporate citizens need to realize they don't have a communications problem, they have a reality problem.
Posted on Jun 5, 2001, Source: Globe and Mail
Activists don't get nabbed off the street and thrown into unmarked cars every day, but it happened last weekend in Quebec. A snapshot of an aggressive police attack.
Posted on Apr 23, 2001, Source: Globe and Mail
At the first World Social Forum, the most talked-about alternative turns out to be an alternative to talking: acting. It may just be the most powerful alternative of all.
Posted on Feb 1, 2001, Source: Globe and Mail
800 workers at a Mexican sweatshop whose biggest client was Nike walked off the job recently to protest the firing of workers who were demanding an independent union.
Posted on Jan 23, 2001, Source: AlterNet
Thousands of anti-globalization activists are scheduled to gather in Brazil next week on the same days as the Davos summit scheduled in the Swiss Alps. Now Davos, an annual economic summit between corporate executives and heads of state, is offering the activists an olive branch.
Posted on Jan 23, 2001, Source: Globe and Mail
The global economy is now at the mercy of enchanted words. Don't say recession. You just might start one.
Posted on Jan 16, 2001, Source: Globe and Mail
Last week, activists at the climate change conference in The Hague burned their passports, staged mock suicides, and built a wall of sandbags. How else do you get Americans to pry their eyes away from the recount in Florida to look at what their sitting government is doing about global warming?
Posted on Nov 28, 2000, Source: AlterNet
Despite all the attempts to turn the Net into a giant shopping mall, the default ethos still seems to be anti-shopping. On the Internet, we may purchase things here and there, but we share ceaselessly: ideas, humour, information, and yes, music files.
Posted on Nov 7, 2000, Source: Globe and Mail
The United States is supposed to be a culture driven by the worship of success. And yet is seems that there is one man for whom success is universally unacceptable: Ralph Nader.
Posted on Oct 31, 2000, Source: AlterNet
On the streets of Prague, the resentment between the press and protesters that had been building for months bubbled to the surface. Journalists from the corporate media who once enjoyed solidarity with Tiananmen Square uprisers now found themselves on the wrong side of the anti-globalization debate.
Posted on Oct 3, 2000, Source: AlterNet
In the Czech Republic, a country that has lived through both repressive communism and rampant capitalism, it makes sense that many of the activists behind this week's protests call themselves "anarchists" and are looking for a way to lead simple, autonomous lives.
Posted on Sep 27, 2000, Source: Globe and Mail
Many activists assume that when the time comes to stop pointing out the failures of corporate-driven globalization and to start advancing an alternative, the United Nations will be there to help. Only there's a problem: Kofi Annan is cutting deals with multi-national corporations that will allow them to police themselves.
Posted on Sep 11, 2000, Source: Globe and Mail
Law enforcement authorities have zeroed in on No Logo, Naomi Klein's anti-corporate book, to analyze how anti-globalization protesters might act at April's "Summit of the Americas" meeting in Quebec City. Are the cops learning anything about what motivates the protests, or just about how to neutralize the activists?
Posted on Sep 5, 2000, Source: Globe and Mail
"Dear Mafiaboy," begins this letter to the suspected hacker who crippled powerful e-commerce sites last month, "As I write this, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are closing in on your position. They dare to call you a 'vandal' and your methods artless. Well, my mythic Mafiaboy isn't a vandal but an anticorporate freedom fighter for the e-commerce age."
Posted on Apr 1, 2000, Source: The Nation
2
