Posts by Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of The Shock Doctrine

Now Is the Time To Resist Wall Street's Shock Doctrine
Posted by Naomi Klein, Huffington Post on September 23, 2008 at 3:17 AM.

I wrote The Shock Doctrine in the hopes that it would make us all better prepared for the next big shock. Well, that shock has certainly arrived, along with gloves-off attempts to use it to push through radical pro-corporate policies (which of course will further enrich the very players who created the market crisis in the first place...).

The best summary of how the right plans to use the economic crisis to push through their policy wish list comes from Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich. On Sunday, Gingrich laid out 18 policy prescriptions for Congress to take in order to "return to a Reagan-Thatcher policy of economic growth through fundamental reforms." In the midst of this economic crisis, he is actually demanding the repeal of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which would lead to further deregulation of the financial industry. Gingrich is also calling for reforming the education system to allow "competition" (a.k.a. vouchers), strengthening border enforcement, cutting corporate taxes and his signature move: allowing offshore drilling.

Read the rest of the post on the flip side »

Naomi Klein Tears into Bush's Offshore Drilling Plan on Fox
Posted by Naomi Klein on July 18, 2008 at 1:00 PM.

Naomi Klein debunks Bush's offshore drilling plan on Fox Business News' Happy Hour Program.