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. subscribe to Naomi Klein's feed

Schools and Cities Are Divesting From Fossil Fuels -- Why Can't All the Big Enviro Groups Do the Same?

Posted on: May 5, 2013, Source: The Nation

Some green groups do more than take fossil fuel money; they are literally part owners of the industry causing the crisis they are purportedly trying to solve.

Bill Moyers & Naomi Klein: How Climate Change Is an Historic Opportunity for Progressives

Posted on: Nov 16, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

Klein explains to Moyers why we've got to "dream big."

Shameless Disaster Capitalism: How Companies Are Already Planning to Get Rich Off Superstorm Sandy

Posted on: Nov 12, 2012, Source: The Nation

Yes that’s right: this catastrophe very likely created by climate change—a crisis born of the colossal regulatory failure to prevent corporations from treating the atmosphere as their open sewer—is just one more opportunity for more deregulation.

"Geoengineers" Think They Can Save the Planet with High-Risk Projects to Manipulate the Climate

Posted on: Oct 30, 2012, Source: NaomiKlein.org

Wouldn’t it be better to change our behavior — to reduce our use of fossil fuels — before we begin fiddling with the planet’s basic life-support systems?

Naomi Klein Talks to Occupy Organizer Yotam Marom: Why Did Occupy Take Off and What Happens Now?

Posted on: Jan 16, 2012, Source: The Nation

The author of 'Shock Doctrine' interviews political organizer Yotam Marom about the future of the Occupy movement.

To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism

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.

Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now

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."

Shock Doctrine in Practice: The Connection Between Nighttime Robbery In the Streets and Daytime Robbery By Elites

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.

Naomi Klein: The Real Reason Why Exxon's Oil Spilled into Yellowstone River

Posted on: Jul 27, 2011, Source: NaomiKlein.org

Global warming's possible role in a Montana environmental disaster.

Our Lives Are Under Threat From Some of the Most Powerful and Richest Entities -- Here's How We Can Fight Back and Win

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.

Joining 350.org: The Next Phase

Posted on: Apr 7, 2011, Source: AlterNet

Naomi Klein: "Shock Doctrine" Unleashed by Right-Wingers in Wisconsin and Throughout the Country

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.

Goldstone Report Details a Massive Crime Scene in Gaza

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.

Naomi Klein: Hunting the Ocean for BP's Missing Millions of Barrels of Oil

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.

Naomi Klein: How We Can Build a Movement So Radical, So Militant, So Powerful That It Becomes Irresistible

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.

BP's Hole in the World: The Absurdity of the Fix-It Mentality

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.

What Happened in Bolivia This Week Could Save Our Failing Democracies

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.

Naomi Klein: How Socialism Protected Chileans from Earthquake Fall-out

Posted on: Mar 3, 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.

Trial Begins for Activist Who Fought to Protect Federal Lands from Drilling -- Join the Protest

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.

Naomi Klein: How Corporate Branding Took Over the White House

Posted on: Jan 17, 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?

For Obama, No Opportunity Is Too Big to Blow

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?

Naomi Klein: 'No Logo' Revisited

Posted on: Nov 20, 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.

No Logo, Ten Years Later

Posted on: Nov 17, 2009, Source: Huffington Post

On the anniversary of the Seattle protests, anger mounts at collusion between corporations and governments. Perhaps our movement's time has come.

Copenhagen: An Anti-Globalization Movement Comes of Age

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."

Naomi Klein Interviews Michael Moore on the Perils of Capitalism

Posted on: Sep 24, 2009, Source: The Nation

Moore discusses his new documentary film, widely praised as a call for a revolt against capitalist madness.

Has Obama Backed Off of a Big Opportunity to Heal America's Racial Divide?

Posted on: Sep 14, 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.

Naomi Klein: Let's Put an End to Sarah Palin-Style Capitalism

Posted on: Jul 29, 2009, Source: The Progressive

Capitalism can survive this crisis. But the world can't survive another capitalist comeback.

Naomi Klein: The Financial Crisis Presents a Huge Opportunity for Change -- We Can't Let Obama Blow It

Posted on: Jun 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet

There is nothing undemocratic about pushing through a set of radical policies that will actually solve the crisis.

Got a Hopeover? A Dictionary for Disheartened Obama Fans

Posted on: Apr 17, 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.

Naomi Klein: Public Revolt Builds Against Rip-off Rescue Plans for the Economy

Posted on: Feb 5, 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.

Want to End the Violence in Gaza? Boycott Israel.

Posted on: Jan 8, 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.

Wall Street's Bailout is a Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene -- Why Aren't the Dems Doing Something About It?

Posted on: Nov 13, 2008, Source: The Nation

Washington's handling of the bailout is not merely incompetent. It may well be illegal.

Can Obama Stop the Bush Administration's Final Economic Heist?

Posted on: Nov 5, 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.

Naomi Klein: Bailout = Bush's Final Pillage

Posted on: Oct 30, 2008, Source: The Nation

The bailout has been designed to keep stealing from the Treasury for years to come.

Now Is the Time To Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine

Posted on: Sep 23, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

We must not let the right use this economic crisis to push through their policy wish list.

Naomi Klein Strikes Back at Critics of Her 'Shock Doctrine' Book

Posted on: Sep 10, 2008, Source: NaomiKlein.org

Responding to critics from the libertarian Cato institute and <i>The New Republic</I>.

China Unveils Frightening Futuristic Police State at Olympics

Posted on: Aug 7, 2008, Source: Huffington Post

The Olympics have opened up a backdoor for the regime to massively upgrade its systems of population control and repression.

Naomi Klein Tears into Bush's Offshore Drilling Plan on Fox

Posted on: Jul 18, 2008, Source: AlterNet

The author of "Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" takes on Bush on Fox Business News.

Bush-Led 'Disaster Capitalism' Exploits Worldwide Misery to Make a Buck

Posted on: Jul 3, 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.

Naomi Klein: What Does Obama's 'Love of Markets' Mean for Our Economic Future?

Posted on: Jun 18, 2008, Source: The Nation

The head of Obama's economic policy team is one of Wal-Mart's most prominent defenders.

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