Shock Doctrine Opponents Revolt: The Austerity Backlash Across Europe The truth is that the real world has paid the high priests of austerity an unwelcome visit by Owen Jones When I first read Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine a few years ago, I had no idea how prescient the book was. It was a polemic about “disaster capitalism”, [...]
The Shock Doctrine Video link to video http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31113.htm An investigation of “disaster capitalism“, based on Naomi Klein‘s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance. Posted April 18, 2012 Related articles The Shock Doctrine 2009(leftygazette.wordpress.com) Naomi Klein: ‘If You Take Climate Change Seriously, You [...]
For decades there has developed an art or science in the investigation of different forms of torture. That of course follows a history of centuries o the use of the infliction of pain as a means to an end. As long as those who seek power at any cost [...]
* * * 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 [...]
: Occupy Wall Street: Why Now? What’s Next? Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom in Conversation About Occupy Wall Street by Naomi Klein and Yotam Marom Naomi Klein: One of the things that’s most mysterious about this moment is “Why now?” People have been fighting austerity measures and calling out abuses by the banks for a couple of years, with [...]
Progressive intellectuals such as Naomi Klein have endorsed Hugo Chavez for his social programmes [EPA] Barcelona, Spain - I just returned from the sixth International Forum of Philosophy in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where philosophers from four continents were invited to discuss “State, Revolution and the Construction of Hegemony”. The event was inaugurated by the vice-presidents of [...]
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 [...]
This week has seen the largest number of posts on the page since this site was started a little over 2 years ago. You can get to the page before this and thers by clicking “Older entries” at the bottom of this page and the pages that you then come to. There all manner [...]
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 [...]
Award-winning journalist Naomi Klein has been reporting on global warming and the climate justice movement for years. “My fear is that climate change is the biggest crisis of all,” Klein says. “If we don’t come up with a positive vision of how climate change can make our economies and our world more just, more [...]
How does the Occupy Wall Street movement move from “the outrage phase” to the “hope phase,” and imagine a new economic model? In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we bring you excerpts from a recent event that examined this question and much [...]
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 [...]
Image by david_shankbone via Flickr #Occupy and the #Climate Movement How are the #occupy movement and climate change connected? Fossil fuels enable the current economic system to continue because it is global and requires a lot of fossil fuels for production and transportation. Multi-national corporations won’t do well if we stop burning fossil fuels. Failure [...]
About the Author Naomi Klein Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at The Nation Institute and author of the… Also by the Author The Most Important Thing in the World (Occupy Wall Street, Activism) The task of our time is to insist that we can afford to build a decent society—while at the [...]
A manifesto for regime change on behalf of all humanity The United for #GlobalDemocracy launch video On Saturday, people will be taking to the streets in almost a thousand cities, 82 countries and six continents. In London, people plan to occupy the Stock Exchange. We are united for global change and united for global [...]
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 [...]
The fight against climate change is down to us – the 99% Our movement differs from previous anti-globalisation protests. To change society’s values we must stay together for years Protesters react as police officers start to make arrests on the Brooklyn bridge during an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York. Photograph: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters [...]
You can watch this presentation at http://www.ecoshock.info/2011/09/fighting-fossil-goo-activism.html We begin with iconic anti-globalist author Naomi Klein, interviewed by Daphne Wysham from Earthbeat Radio. Naomi was outside the White House, September 2nd, on the Indigenous Peoples day of protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline proposed to carry dirty Tar Sands oil to refineries in Texas. Klein outlines the [...]
The US has been creating instability for decades. Even the most cursory reading of Chomsky and Chalmers Johnson can confirm not just the fact but also the reasons. Naomi Klein‘s book the Shock Doctrine also illu8strates how western capitalism and imperialism live and breathe instability to further their own aims. The following article by Nick [...]
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 [...]
Christian Parenti, Staff of Life, Bread of Death Posted by Christian Parenti at 9:55am, July 19, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: I have a special summer offer today. Christian Parenti is new to this site, but not to readers of the Nation and other magazines for his fine reporting, often from war zones. His new book, [...]
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 [...]
The majority of Obama’s campaign promises remain unkept, and many are now looking to new sources for change [GALLO/GETTY] A few short weeks ago, President Obama was on top of the world – or so it seemed. He first pushed back against the growing wave of domestic silliness by releasing his long-form birth certificate, turning [...]
AMY GOODMAN: In this exclusive broadcast, we are the only daily global news hour that is broadcasting on television, radio and the internet daily from the Bella Center, from inside the COP15, the climate change summit. But we’re going to go right now to the People’s Climate Summit, the Klimaforum, that’s taking place in the [...]
Why Marrickville BDS should stand; Naomi Klein and others make the call Published on 19 April 2011 in Israel. Comments (2) Print This Post Despite what Barry O’Farrell and his Liberal cohorts think there are plenty of people who support the BDS movement, so moves against Marrickville Council should be seen for what they really are, pro Israeli [...]
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the bestselling author of The Shock Doctrine. Yes, author and independent journalist Naomi Klein joins us from Toronto, Canada, to talk about the latest shocks to the economy and, with the climate summit in Copenhagen just two weeks away, the coming together of a global movement for climate justice. She [...]
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to play a clip of Hillary Clinton’s news conference just a few minutes ago. She was just here in the room outside where we’re broadcasting from in the Bella Center, had just arrived. People were asking her, you know, is, in fact, President Obama coming? We’re hearing rumors that he isn’t. [...]
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 [...]
AMY GOODMAN: Our guest for the hour is Naomi Klein, journalist and author. Her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She’s writing a new book on climate change and the climate change deniers. Naomi, take it from there. NAOMI KLEIN: Yeah, I mean, the book is not about the deniers, but it [...]
AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking to Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, as we turn now to Tim DeChristopher. Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted last week of two felony counts for disrupting the auction of more than 100,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas drilling. He spoke to us from Salt Lake City the [...]
