The Shock Doctrine

Author - Naomi Klein ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Kindle Edition eBooks item from Metropolitan Books was reviewed on 16-Oct-2008.

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1) Kindle Edition eBooks The Shock Doctrine by Metropolitan Books. If you thought you knew about America, and it´s foreign policy for the past 50 years, wait ´til you read this book. The idea that these things are being done, in our name, in places all over the world, is a crime. Pray, that under a new president the methods and tactics used by our country will cease, immediately. "The Shock Doctrine" will shock you. I promise.¤

2) Kindle Edition eBooks The Shock Doctrine by Metropolitan Books. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

I suggest everyone reads this book. It was very informative and eye opening to out goverment.¤

3) Kindle Edition eBooks The Shock Doctrine by Metropolitan Books. Just a few things off the top of my head I find wrong with this book.

1. Friedman opposed the Vietnam and Iraq Wars.
2. Friedman opposed the IMF´s actions in Asia.
3. Friedman visited Argentina 2 years after Pinochet´s bloody coup.
4. Pinochet requested help from Friedman economists after his economy was failing and still didn´t start reforms for several years.
5. Chinese students gathered at Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of the Secretary General who was a market reformer.

the list goes on and on. This book was written to be marketed to the left because Naomi Klien new it would sell well, truth be damned.¤

4) Kindle Edition eBooks The Shock Doctrine by Metropolitan Books. This is a well-written review of the state of our economy. If the ´deciders´ would all read this, it might make a difference!!¤

5) Kindle Edition eBooks The Shock Doctrine by Metropolitan Books. I didn´t know what to expect. I had heard Naomi Klein on Democracy Now! and several other programs and she was an interesting contributor. I checked out the book online and purchased it. I have not been disappointed. I recommend this book to anyone. Should be required reading in high school.¤

6) Kindle Edition eBooks The Shock Doctrine by Metropolitan Books. The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq. -In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism". Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment", losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman´s free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement´s peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster, capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.¤

7) Kindle Edition eBooks The Shock Doctrine by Metropolitan Books. Naomi Klein´s The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn´t just some relic from the bad old days. It´s alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area near you.

"At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq´´ civil war, a new law is unveiled that will allow Shell and BP to claim the country´s vast oil reserves… Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly outsources the running of the ´War on Terror´ to Halliburton and Blackwater… After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts… New Orleans residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be re-opened." Klein not only kicks butt, she names names, notably economist Milton Friedman and his radical Chicago School of the 1950s and 60s which she notes "produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today." Stand up and take a bow, Donald Rumsfeld.

There´s little doubt Klein´s book--which arrived to enormous attention and fanfare thanks to her previous missive, the best-selling No Logo, will stir the ire of the right and corporate America. It´s also true that Klein´s assertions are coherent, comprehensively researched and footnoted, and she makes a very credible case. Even if the world isn´t going to hell in a hand-basket just yet, it´s nice to know a sharp customer like Klein is bearing witness to the backroom machinations of government and industry in times of turmoil. --Kim Hughes¤

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