The Shock Doctrine
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Latest NewsFebruary 25th, 2009
February 5th, 2009
Naomi's article, "All of Them Must Go," is published in The Nation.
January 23rd, 2009
The Shock Doctrine is shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing. The winner will be announced on February 24, 2009.
January 8th, 2009
Naomi's column, "Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction," is published in The Nation.
Read a letter exchange between Robert Pollin and Naomi Klein on the question of one-sided boycotts.
Read a letter exchange between Robert Pollin and Naomi Klein on the question of one-sided boycotts.
November 25th, 2008
Naomi speaks about Obama's Economic Team on Democracy Now! Listen or Watch
November 17th, 2008
Naomi discusses the bailout profiteers and the multi-trillion dollar crime scene on Democracy Now!. Watch the program
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a bold and brilliantly conceived thesis, skillfully and cogently
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well have revealed the master narrative of our time. And because the
pattern she exposes could govern our future as well, The Shock Doctrine could turn out to be among the most important books of the decade."
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One Year After the Publication of The Shock Doctrine:
A Response to the Attacks
One Year After the Publication of The Shock Doctrine:
A Response to the Attacks
Ex-Blackwater Workers May Return to Iraq Jobs
Rod Nordland, New York Times, April 4, 2009
“Late last month Blackwater Worldwide lost its
billion-dollar contract to protect American diplomats here, but by next
month many if not most of its private security guards will be back on
the job in Iraq.
“The same individuals will just be wearing new uniforms, working for
Triple Canopy, the firm that won the State Department's contract after
Iraqi officials refused to renew Blackwater's operating license,
according to American diplomats, private security industry officials
and Iraqi officials. Blackwater - viewed in Iraq as a symbol of
American violence and impunity - lost the contract after being accused
of excessive force in several instances, particularly an apparently
unprovoked shooting in downtown Baghdad in 2007 in which 17 civilians
were killed….
“Critics of Blackwater said they worried that the same people might
perpetuate what they believed was a corporate culture that disregarded
Iraqis' lives. ‘They're really all still there, and it's back to
business as usual,’ said Susan Burke, an American lawyer who has filed
three civil rights lawsuits against Blackwater on behalf of Iraqi
civilians alleged to be victims of it.”
Bankers Bet on Number of Arrests, Deaths and Injuries at G20
David Teather, The Guardian, April 2, 2009
"At Coq d'Argent, the restaurant atop the
salmon-coloured building at Number One Poultry, next to Bank station,
two traders were angry that the police didn't seem to be making any
arrests. 'The demonstrators are goading the police and hitting them,
but they aren't arresting anyone,' said one.
"'I'll make money if they arrest more than 140,' he said. Traders, he
explained, were putting spread bets on the number of arrests - with the
quoted spread on Bloomberg at 130-140. They were also paying out on
deaths and if more than 20 protesters were injured in horse charges.
The riots, they said, were only a minor inconvenience: 'We've been in
this morning, made a lot of money and now are chilling out.'"
Obama Administration Awards $20 Million Contract to Boeing for Border Surveillance Towers
Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press, April 1, 2009
"The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video
surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help secure parts of
the U.S.-Canadian border, awarding the contract to a company criticized
for faulty technology with its so-called 'virtual fence' along the
U.S.-Mexico boundary. The government awarded the $20 million project to
Boeing Co., for the towers designed to assist agents stationed along
the 4,000-mile northern stretch....
"Boeing is the firm responsible for a 28-mile stretch of technology
erected along the U.S.-Mexico border near Tucson, Ariz., as part of the
government's Secure Border Initiative. The company was widely
criticized for delivering an inferior product. Last year the government
withheld some of the payment to Boeing because technology used in the
test project near Tucson did not work properly. Boeing also was late in
delivering the final product....
"Tim Sparapani, senior legislative counsel at the American Civil
Liberties Union, said the Secure Border Initiative has been a disaster
since its inception. 'The technologies don't work, they're not
weather-resistant and they're certainly privacy invasive,' Sparapani
said. 'Putting them in America's backyards only invades the privacy of
Americans, it doesn't add to our security.'"
