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We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion

Naomi Wolf, Al Jazeera English. November 1, 2011.

They're fighting a "corporatocracy" that has bought governments, created armed enforcers, engaged in systemic economic fraud, and plundered treasuries and ecosystems.

Inside Occupy Wall Street: Journalist-Participant Describes What Life Is Really Like (Complicated and Inspiring) at Zuccotti Park

Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet. October 11, 2011.

AlterNet reporter Gwynne experiences the life, culture, politics and challenges at Occupy Wall Street in NYC and finds an exciting, inspiring model for inclusion and change.

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

Naomi Klein, The Nation. August 17, 2011.

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.

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

Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, AlterNet. April 8, 2011.

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.

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

Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Democracy Now!. March 9, 2011.

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.

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

Naomi Klein, The Nation. January 13, 2011.

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

Laura Flanders, Naomi Klein, GRITtv. September 14, 2010.

In this interview, Klein explains how we can channel growing rage in this country and in the world into a true progressive movement.

Coming to Terms with Climate Change and the Economy

David Korten, YES! Magazine. May 20, 2010.

Where does the concept of "climate debt" fit into a New Economy framework?

Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Alice Walker Reflect on the Death of Howard Zinn

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. January 28, 2010.

Remembering the lifelong dissident and peace activist and historian, who joined many of the struggles for social justice over the past fifty years.

Naomi Klein: How Corporate Branding Took Over the White House

Naomi Klein, Fourth Estate. January 18, 2010.

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

Naomi Klein, TheNation.com. December 21, 2009.

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

Naomi Klein, Picador Press. November 21, 2009.

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.

Copenhagen: An Anti-Globalization Movement Comes of Age

Naomi Klein, The Nation. November 16, 2009.

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

Naomi Klein, The Nation. September 25, 2009.

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

Naomi Klein Shows You Can Boycott Israel Without Cutting Off Dialogue Over Palestine

Cecilie Surasky, AlterNet. September 1, 2009.

An interview with Klein and Israeli publisher Yael Lerer on why boycotting Israel will pressure the country to live up to international law.

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

Naomi Klein, The Progressive. July 30, 2009.

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

Naomi Klein, AlterNet. June 13, 2009.

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

Around the World, the Workers Are Fighting Back

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 18, 2009.

There's an international wave of pushback against corporate malfeasance and greed.

Naomi Klein, Matt Taibbi, and Bill Maher on Investigating the Bush/Cheney Torture Program

Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet. May 11, 2009.

Should we sacrifice justice for political gain? Of course not, but not everyone feels that way.

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

Naomi Klein, The Nation. February 6, 2009.

Governments that respond to a crisis created by free-market ideology with the same bad ideas will not survive to tell the tale.

Don't Miss These Brilliant Essays on Gaza

Jan Frel, AlterNet. January 15, 2009.

A quick guide to some of the best essays on Israel's assault on Gaza and the larger questions posed by the recent violence.

Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine Got Shot Down in Canada

Kim Elliott, rabble.ca. December 8, 2008.

Canada's Bush-imitating prime minister gets a political smackdown for trying to ram through radical policies.

Naomi Klein: The Borderline Illegal Deals Behind the $700 Billion Bailout

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. November 18, 2008.

The bailout is a parting gift to the people that George Bush once referred to jokingly as "my base."