Naomi Kleinauthor profile |
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| born | May 05, 1970 |
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| gender | female |
| place of birth | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| website | http://www.naomiklein.org/main |
| genre | Nonfiction |
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about this author
Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, author and activist well known for her political analyses of corporate globalization. Klein ranked 11th in the The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, a list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals compiled by Prospect magazine in conjunction with Foreign Policy magazine. She was the highest ranked woman on the list. Prospect based the list and its rankings entirely on an Internet poll. |
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books by Naomi Kleincombine editionsavg rating: 4.07 | 2472 ratings | 12 distinct works see all books by Naomi Klein » |
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quotes by Naomi Klein
"In Venezuela Chavez has made the co-ops a top political priority, giving them first refusal on government contracts and offering them economic incentives to trade with one another. By 2006, there were roughly 100,000 co-operatives in the country, employing more than 700,000 workers. Many are pieces of state infrastructure – toll booths, highway maintenance, health clinics – handed over to the communities to run. It’s a reverse of the logic of government outsourcing – rather than auctioning off pieces of the state to large corporations and losing democratic control, the people who use the resources are given the power to manage them, creating, at least in theory, both jobs and more responsive public services. Chavez’s many critics have derided these initiatives as handouts and unfair subsidies, of course. Yet in an era when Halliburton treats the U.S. government as its personal ATM for six years, withdraws upward of $20 billion in Iraq contracts alone, refuses to hire local workers either on the Gulf coast or in Iraq, then expresses its gratitude to U.S. taxpayers by moving its corporate headquarters to Dubai (with all the attendant tax and legal benefits), Chavez’s direct subsidies to regular people look significantly less radical."
— Naomi Klein
— Naomi Klein












