March 3, 2012
* * * Naomi Klein: ‘If You Take Climate Change Seriously, You Have to Throw Out the Free-Market Playbook’ Naomi Klein on ideological impediments to addressing climate change and how to move forward – Common Dreams staff In an interview with Solutions, author and activist Naomi Klein discusses how market-based solutions are not going to meet the needs [...]
Tags: Climate change, Climate change in the United States, Free market, Left-wing politics, Naomi Klein, No Logo, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, United States
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December 15, 2011
Capitalism vs. the Climate By Naomi Klein, The Nation, November 9, 2011 There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row. He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to [...]
Tags: Cato Institute, Climate change, Climate Depot, Heartland Institute, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Naomi Klein, Obama, Pew Research Center, United State, United States, YouTube
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December 9, 2011
Naomi Klein, the author of a string of provocative and popular books including “The Shock Doctrine,” recently took on global warming policy and campaigns in “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” a much-discussed cover story for The Nation that has been mentioned by readers here more than once in the last few weeks. Author and [...]
Tags: Climate change, Durban, Global warming, Heartland Institute, Klein, Naomi Klein, Naomi Oreskes, Post Carbon Institute, Post-Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions
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November 14, 2011
Environmental activists are claiming victory after the Obama administration announced Thursday it will postpone any decision on the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline until 2013. The announcement was made just days after more than 10,000 people encircled the White House calling on President Obama to reject the project, the second major action [...]
Tags: Bill McKibben, Keystone Pipeline, KeystoneXL, Naomi Klein, Obama, Oil sands, TransCanada, White House
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October 12, 2011
In October’s Newsletter: Naomi’s Speech at Occupy Wall Street: “The Most Important Thing in the World Now” Naomi Debates the OWS Protests in the New York Times Naomi and Bill McKibben at The Daily Beast :”Obama’s Pipeline Mess” Naomi’s Nation Op-Ed on the London Riots: “Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery” Check Out Naomi’s Recent Media Appearances to Discuss [...]
Tags: Bill McKibben, Daily Beast, London, Naomi Klein, New York Times, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street, World Trade Organization
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September 4, 2011
AMY GOODMAN: Rallies for workers’ rights are spreading across the country. In Michigan, over a thousand people rallied at the State Capitol in Lansing to oppose a measure allowing the breaking of labor contracts by placing schools and districts under emergency management. In a scene reminiscent of Wisconsin, hundreds of demonstrators packed the Capitol Rotunda chanting [...]
Tags: AMY GOODMAN, Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein, Newt Gingrich, Ohio, Paul Krugman, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, United State
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June 27, 2011
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is fast becoming the locus classicus as far as how the US in particular and Capital in general controls its conquests. Of course Noam Chomsky has written about this state of affairs with a different emphasis for over half a century and would have to be this and the last [...]
Tags: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Rockefeller Foundation, Shock Doctrine, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, United State, Wisconsin
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June 24, 2011
Tom Engelhardt There has been a great deal written and said about what is seen as the imperial project and the way in which imperialist aims and aspirations invariably are expressed in terms of war. Perhaps one of the most startling figures available is the way in which war itself has become very much a slaughterhouse [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Chalmers Johnson, chomsky, Deterring Democracy, Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope (American Empire Project), Iraq, Jonathan Schell, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Tom Engelhardt, United State, Warfare and Conflict, World War I
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June 2, 2011
Oakland Lighting the Climate Path By Naomi Klein – April 21st, 2011 Posted on Ella’s Voice (Ella Baker Center for Human Rights) I recently spent an unforgettable day with the Oakland Climate Action Coalition (OCAC), graciously hosted by the Ella Baker Center. And thanks to Emily Kirsch, lead organizer for the center’s Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, we [...]
Tags: Affordable housing, Avi Lewis, Climate Action Plan, Climate change, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, environment, Laney College, Naomi Klein
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