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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.

Shock Doctrine: How Conservatives and Corporate Elites Are Stoking Economic Hysteria to Force Catastrophic Cuts

Robert L. Borosage, Blog for Our Future. August 8, 2011.

Conservative and corporate elites are stoking the turmoil, and using fear to panic a public into accepting harsh measures that would be otherwise unacceptable.

How Fraudulent Is the GOP Budget Plan? It Wouldn't Even Make a Dent In the Deficit!

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 31, 2011.

A plan being sold to the public as a “serious” attempt to reduce the federal deficit would cut the budget gap by just one-seventh of one percent over the next decade.

The Budget Hoax: It's About Showering Wall Street with Tax Dollars

Sally Kohn, AlterNet. April 8, 2011.

We are being manipulated to give government handouts to the very same big banks and corporate scam artists that crashed our economy in the first place.

GOP Shock Doctrine: What Gov't Shutdown And Other GOP Assaults on Democracy Are Really All About

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. April 7, 2011.

Like the Right's assault on public sector workers, none of this has anything to do with the budget.

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.

Has Disaster Profiteering Already Begun in Haiti?

Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 18, 2010.

The Orwellian-named International Peace Operations Association didn't waste much time in offering the "services" of its member companies to swoop down on Haiti.

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.

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.

John Cusack Tackles War Profiteers Today on Meet the Bloggers

ZP Heller, Meet the Bloggers AlterNet: Video. October 10, 2008.

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Colbert Report: Naomi Klein Warns of Wall Street Shock Doctrine

Staff, The Colbert Report AlterNet: PEEK. October 3, 2008.

The disaster capitalism of the Bush-Paulson bailout.

Progressive Shock Doctrine

Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. September 30, 2008.

Time for Congressional Democrats to start thinking like democrats again.

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

Naomi Klein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. September 23, 2008.

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

Shock and Tasers in New Orleans

Naomi Klein, Huffington Post. December 22, 2007.

The shameless exploitation of poor New Orleans residents to privatize public infrastructure is being enforced by violence and tasers.

Naomi Klein: "Iraq Is the Classic Example of The Shock Doctrine" [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. December 2, 2007.

Klien, author of "The Shock Doctrine" joins Keith Olbermann on "Countdown" to discuss the phenomenon of "disaster capitalism" and how it applies to Iraq.

How Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" Explains The Taser Death of a Polish Man

Cliff Schecter, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. November 22, 2007.

Cliff Schecter: Klein really has put together one of the most dangerous trends gripping our world and our political culture.

Is Reason Magazine Afraid of Naomi Klein's Book?

Alexander Zaitchik, The eXile AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2007.

Alexander Zaitchik: Klein's book is a serious one, a monster shot across the bow of staunch Friedmanites like the ones at Reason.

Naomi Klein on Post-9/11 Panic: "People So Scared...They Thought Giuliani Was Their Long Lost Daddy" [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. October 15, 2007.

Klein, author of "The Shock Doctrine", talks with Bill Maher about her belief that corporations and politicians who seek a horrific national disaster to advance their idealogical, privatization agenda.

John Cusack Interviews Naomi Klein About "The Shock Doctrine" [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. October 2, 2007.

Cusack to Klein: "What [your] book rightly asks is...shouldn't we make a moral choice that you either make defense policy or you profit from it?"

Alan Greenspan and the Myth of the True Believer

Naomi Klein, The Nation. September 29, 2007.

Greenspan's new autobiography sheds light on what motivates hard-right political leaders to apply brutal economic shock therapy.

Can Radical Capitalism Survive the Disasters It Creates?

John Gray, The Guardian. September 22, 2007.

The era of "free market" economic policies forced on societies after disasters happen as detailed in Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine may be on the verge of ending.

Why Can't the U.S. Have the Debate about Naomi Klein's Book That Europe Has?

Jan Frel, AlterNet. September 21, 2007.

In Europe and Canada debate is raging about Naomi Klein's new book on disaster capitalism, The Shock Doctrine. This interview with Klein considers why U.S. public debate is unable to ask fundamental questions about our economic system.

America's Deadly Shock Doctrine in Iraq

Naomi Klein, Henry Holt. September 14, 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.

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