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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein.  It came out months ago, and I would’ve read it sooner had it not cost $45 dollars in Canada. <br/><br/>Much of the information meticulously detailed in the book was already available in Harper’s Magazine and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18051903">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dear Naomi Klein,<br/>	I recently finished reading your latest book, The Shock Doctrine.  Your detailed account of the connections between neoliberal economic policy and the use of violent repression, the decline of welfare states, and the rise of corporatized war and disaster capitalism is compell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18979739">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Naomi Klein's <em>The Shock Doctrine</em>  advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't just some relic from the bad old days. It's alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area near you.<p>  &quot;At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq'' civil war, a new law is unveiled that will allow Shell and BP to claim the country's vast oil reserves&#133; Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly outsources the running of the 'War on Terror' to Halliburton and Blackwater&#133; After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts&#133; New Orleans residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be re-opened.&quot;  Klein not only kicks butt, she names names, notably economist Milton Friedman and his radical Chicago School of the 1950s and 60s which she notes &quot;produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today.&quot; Stand up and take a bow, Donald Rumsfeld. <p>  There's little doubt Klein's book--which arrived to enormous attention and fanfare thanks to her previous missive, the best-selling <em>No Logo</em>, will stir the ire of the right and corporate America. It's also true that Klein's assertions are coherent, comprehensively researched and footnoted, and she makes a very credible case. Even if the world isn't going to hell in a hand-basket just yet, it's nice to know a sharp customer like Klein is bearing witness to the backroom machinations of government and industry in times of turmoil. --<em>Kim Hughes</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the San Diego fires this volume caught my eye. Mostly, it was the subheading &quot;The rise of disaster capitalism.&quot; Published in 2007, the summary promised a thorough indictment of the Milton Friedman inspired economics of &quot;disaster capitalism&quot; i.e. the method by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11418293">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Naomi Klein's <em>The Shock Doctrine</em>  advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't just some relic from the bad old days. It's alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area near you.<p>  &quot;At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq'' civil war, a new law is unveiled that will allow Shell and BP to claim the country's vast oil reserves&#133; Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly outsources the running of the 'War on Terror' to Halliburton and Blackwater&#133; After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts&#133; New Orleans residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be re-opened.&quot;  Klein not only kicks butt, she names names, notably economist Milton Friedman and his radical Chicago School of the 1950s and 60s which she notes &quot;produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today.&quot; Stand up and take a bow, Donald Rumsfeld. <p>  There's little doubt Klein's book--which arrived to enormous attention and fanfare thanks to her previous missive, the best-selling <em>No Logo</em>, will stir the ire of the right and corporate America. It's also true that Klein's assertions are coherent, comprehensively researched and footnoted, and she makes a very credible case. Even if the world isn't going to hell in a hand-basket just yet, it's nice to know a sharp customer like Klein is bearing witness to the backroom machinations of government and industry in times of turmoil. --<em>Kim Hughes</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent and compellingly written book about how Milton Friedman's Chicago school of free market capitalism has been imposed on countries following shocks, whether caused by natural or contrived disasters, and how the initial shock and followup shocks in the form of repression and frequently tortur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9394344">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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