Naomi Klein - Iraq: The Neoliberal Project (Part 7 of 8)

private properties of foreign moviestars and its elite.croatians enjoy so much their "independence"that every time they are reminded of their national debts,the second most expensive food prices in whole of europe with the maximum average salary of about 500 euros a month,and the increasing number of the obese kids(informer yugoslavia there was NO obesity.if you were obese,it was due to your health conditions,they really do not know whether to cry or to laugh.P.S.thanks for the bombs-says serbia

Naomi Klein President of the United states of America !!!

What is the answer? What kind of action? My friends always say there's nothing we can do, and i can never tell them. Did she mean boycotting the cooperations, they got their contracts from government not from citizens.

sounds like a good start. I was thinking moltov coctails, but boycotting could work too. In that second thought, I realize, we seem to be a grey scale between "us" and "them", and so should at least give them a chance to change. Apply as appropriate

people have to take responsibility for their actions. Perhaps sectarian violience is actually national violience like in the Yugoslavia break-up. Which the violience was founded on the basis of suppressing freedom.

to TheShield04:our actual national violence was prompted by "the economic opportunities","freedoms",and ideas of "independence and democracy" which were promised to us (by our corrupted leaders,and world leading politicians) if we accept the deals offered by the IMF,and the experts who were going to remake our countires and nations.after we killed ourselves by killing each other,destroyed our own homes,and everything we worked for the last 50 years,the abstract goals we were fighting for turned

how come she does not talk about the serctarian violence...isn't that ignoring a huge problem within iraq. Perhaps it is inconvenient for her arguments if she discusses sectarian struggles that have nothing to do with USA. When she ignores that fact, it makes her argument seam very simple and logical, hence everyone starts clapping hands and "gasping" when she talks....

The Shield04: There are a million different problems Naomi could discuss. Her topic in this speech, however, is primarily centered around neoliberalism and economic hegemony. (And, if you are familiar with her more recent writings, she is focused on "disaster capitalism.") How do you feel sectarian violence plays a key role in these economic topics? As I see it, a lack of economic justice always brings about and/or exacerbates sectarianism.

i hate what the administration is doing!

Excellent! This lecture should be translated and texted, so that people who don´t speak english also can understand it. If I had a transcripion I would love to give it a try (norwegian or spanish)...