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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by: Naomi Klein

May 01, 2008
Even though it was valuable for me to learn what is really going on, I read this book with a mixture of revulsion and horror. And recently, "New Scientist" (23 July 2008) carried an article stating that, for each year of a country's involvement with the IMF, the TB death rate increased by four per cent on average. This was not because countries with worsening TB attract more IMF attention since the TB rates had been falling, or at least steady, before receiving IMF "help".

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No Logo

by: Naomi Klein

January 15, 2001
pretty hard reading at times, but the content is excellent and certainly gets one thinking about ethical shopping!

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by: Naomi Klein

September 18, 2007
This is an important book which deserves to be read and considered carefully when forming our view on the issue of the practical and moral application of Corporate Globalization, which surely is one of the most significant changes to world order that has taken place in the last 25 years or less.

We have all learned over time that we must be careful in our quest for the truth; that we must weigh with a healthy amount of skepticism the facts as presented to us by various writers; that we must be cautious about unquestioningly accepting any particular interpretation of history, or more recent or current issues, as being fair, accurate or even honest. Naomi Klein is a radical lady. Anyone who has read her book "No Logo" will already know this. To ... Read More:

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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Globalization Debate

by: Naomi Klein

October 21, 2002
This book contains superb comments on strategies, policies and mass demonstrations against the actual way of the world. It poses the right questions (who holds power? who exercises it? who disguises it?) and the right answers (people before profits).

The way of the world
For Naomi Klein, the world is dominated by transnational corporations and investors, who control governments. These governments respond to the needs of the former, not of the people who elected them: affordable housing, medicines, clean water, clean land, basic food, education, sustainable energy sources and independent scientific research.
As someone in Prague said, `communism and capitalism have something in common. They both centralize power in the hands of a few.' Globalization and ... Read More:

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No War: America's Real Business in Iraq

by: Naomi Klein

June 02, 2005
Baghdad Year Zero, by Naomi Klien, is the first of three sections to this short, no-holds-barred, account of the truth behind the spin.

Much comment, even from supporters of the Iraq War, has focussed on how the coalition lost the peace. Accepted mythology has it that the allies had no plan of action: they assumed they would be made welcome, but the ungrateful Iraqis had other ideas.

This book explains why. Bush and his NeoCon Junta had a plan for postwar Iraq which involved a giant experiment in NeoCon theory. Iraq would be the first country in the world to be rebuilt by private enterprise, US corporation style. McDonalds and Wal Mart would enter Iraq, and the population would enjoy burgers, and slap their buttocks in delight for ever and a day.

How to do it? ... Read More:

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by: Naomi Klein

June 24, 2008
This is an important book which deserves to be read and considered carefully when forming our view on the issue of the practical and moral application of Corporate Globalization, which surely is one of the most significant changes to world order that has taken place in the last 25 years or less.

We have all learned over time that we must be careful in our quest for the truth; that we must weigh with a healthy amount of skepticism the facts as presented to us by various writers; that we must be cautious about unquestioningly accepting any particular interpretation of history, or more recent or current issues, as being fair, accurate or even honest. Naomi Klein is a radical lady. Anyone who has read her book "No Logo" will already know this. To me she comes across sometimes as an advocate ... Read More:

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No Logo

by: Naomi Klein

January 17, 2000
An interesting work but one largely assembled from layers of anecdotes glued together by elementary political analysis. There is a keen political analysis trying to get out,on the damaging effects of the globalisation of production on producers and consumers, but it is swamped by the torrent of anecdotes about one brand or another. The major narrative weakness of the work is that it struggles to rise above an almost fetishistic savouring of this or that particular anecdote, with the result that profund political abstraction is lacking. Only so many anecdotes are neccessary to make the point about Nike, McDonalds, etc. The book's style hasn't grasped this point and often one has to plough through blocks of fifty pages (all of which have the ring of 'haven't I just read that earlier')to get to a new insight ... Read More:

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No Logo!

by: Naomi Klein

January 31, 2005
An interesting work but one largely assembled from layers of anecdotes glued together by elementary political analysis. There is a keen political analysis trying to get out,on the damaging effects of the globalisation of production on producers and consumers, but it is swamped by the torrent of anecdotes about one brand or another. The major narrative weakness of the work is that it struggles to rise above an almost fetishistic savouring of this or that particular anecdote, with the result that profund political abstraction is lacking. Only so many anecdotes are neccessary to make the point about Nike, McDonalds, etc. The book's style hasn't grasped this point and often one has to plough through blocks of fifty pages (all of which have the ring of 'haven't I just read that earlier')to get to a new insight ... Read More:

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No Logo : Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

by: Naomi Klein

December 04, 2000
pretty hard reading at times, but the content is excellent and certainly gets one thinking about ethical shopping!

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War With No End

by: John Berger, Naomi Klein, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy, Ahdaf Soueif, Joe Sacco, Haifa Zangana

October 01, 2007
This useful anthology gives some idea of the vast range and depth of the US and British anti-war movements. It explores the impact of the `war on terror' from Palestine to Iraq, and looks at the US and British states' attacks on civil liberties and on public opinion.

In her excellent contribution, Arundhati Roy claims that capitalism undermines not national sovereignty, but democracy: in fact it undermines both. She rightly links the `war on terror' to the economic system that drives it, and points out that capitalism's international bodies, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation are all undemocratic, anti-national and secretive.

The best-researched piece is by Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine. She calls our current system `disaster capitalism'. ... Read More: