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Are Any of You Familiar w/ "The Shock Doctrine"
Posted on 8/11/14 at 7:05 am
Posted on 8/11/14 at 7:05 am
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The Shock Doctrine
In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
Here's a LINK for more info about the novel. Just curious in light of other going on in the world are familiar with the theory and what are your thoughts?
Posted on 8/11/14 at 7:27 am to undecided
I wonder if Naomi Klein has ever traveled to India or China. Indians are the most entrepreneurial people in the world. Everyone has a little business. Capitalism and free trade is not a new invention. People will always want to buy and sell and some will do it better than others.
I guess that she is a Leftist? Is she saying that the United States manipulated and caused tragedies to create a situation where its elites could make more money off of the global poor?
Don't bother mentioning how much the standard of living for the global poor has increased in the past 30 years.
I guess that she is a Leftist? Is she saying that the United States manipulated and caused tragedies to create a situation where its elites could make more money off of the global poor?
Don't bother mentioning how much the standard of living for the global poor has increased in the past 30 years.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 7:34 am to AlaTiger
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Is she saying that the United States manipulated and caused tragedies to create a situation where its elites could make more money off of the global poor?
Essentially, yes. More from the website
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Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.
The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas through our contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of the recent past have been deliberate, active theatres for the shock doctrine, among them: Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973, the Falklands War in 1982, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 8:40 am to AlaTiger
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I guess that she is a Leftist?
She’s very liberal. A Jew with a critical view of money producing entities.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 8:56 am to Erin Go Bragh
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New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.
I KNEW IT.
Gitmo. The CIA. Electroshock therapy. It all adds up. It's like unraveling a giant cable knit sweater, that someone keeps knitting, and knitting, and knitting, and knitting, and knitting, and knitting, and knitting.
This post was edited on 8/11/14 at 8:57 am
Posted on 8/11/14 at 8:57 am to Huey Lewis
Up vote for the pee wee reference.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:01 am to undecided
She'll get a ton of hate on this board, but I find myself agreeing with her views the more I read her.
She is a leftist but she wrote a book entitled, "The End of America", which spoke about th epolice and surveillence state. Her predictions in that book (circa 2002) are frighteningly accurate.
Back to her theory about shock doctrine, I'd refer to the book "Economic Hitman", which is about the IMF and World Bank, which runs a ton more stuff than the good ole USA, where there is no such thing as a free market.
She is a leftist but she wrote a book entitled, "The End of America", which spoke about th epolice and surveillence state. Her predictions in that book (circa 2002) are frighteningly accurate.
Back to her theory about shock doctrine, I'd refer to the book "Economic Hitman", which is about the IMF and World Bank, which runs a ton more stuff than the good ole USA, where there is no such thing as a free market.
Posted on 8/11/14 at 9:10 am to Huey Lewis
But where does the fact that AIPAC controls the U.S. government fit in? Everyone knows our government, financial institutions and entertainment industries are controlled by Zionists conspiracies.
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