I purchased Naomi Klein's book "The Shock Doctrine".....it is a piece of extraordinary work. For anyone interested in the "Truth" about want is currently being done in the name of democracy..it is a must read. Draw the lines and connect the dots....we still have time.
To see a great interview by "Truthout" go to the link below.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122807J.shtml
Learning about the link between capitalism and the bloody excesses of Argentina's ruling junta in the 1970s planted the seeds of her latest effort, but it was the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that pushed her to get writing.
"I wrote the book because I really felt personally overwhelmed and disoriented by the speed of change post-Sept. 11," Klein said during an interview at her publisher's downtown office.
"It was depressing to write and there were periods that were incredibly bleak."
Indeed, "The Shock Doctrine" is unrelenting, ripping away at the democratic facade of a capitalist system Klein accuses of paying mere lip service to fundamental notions of freedom.
Instead, she says, societies made vulnerable by natural disasters, war or other traumatic upheavals are increasingly being exploited by predatory capitalists who use the dislocation for their own profit-making ends.
The takeover of Iraq's oil fields by western multinationals after the U.S.-led invasion, the sale of tsunami-wrecked beaches in Sri Lanka to luxury resort operators, the privatization of New Orleans public schools after the flood, and the establishment of a privatized homeland security apparatus after 9-11 are all examples, she says.
When a population does resist the fire-sale of its public assets, Klein notes that the results tend to be disastrous for the resisters.
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