On AlterNet: shock doctrine
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "shock doctrine"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
Stephen Marshall, AlterNet. September 22, 2007.
The left accepts as faith the idea that corporate globalization and war are connected. But there's a danger in oversimplifying that connection.
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.
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.
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.
