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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
