Naomi Klein - Obama and the Economic Crisis

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/16/Klein_-_Economic_Crisis_is_Anti-Obama__Insurance_

Liberal author and journalist Naomi Klein warns Obama supporters on how the current economic crisis could serve as Republican "insurance" against the goals of an Obama Administration.

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From the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to the unending war in Iraq, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Klein chronicles the rise of free-market policies and how they have been used to capitalize on disaster.

Are the communities that have been struck by tragedy being manipulated by our current politics and economics for profitable gain?

Klein challenges the ideology of the free market revolution and argues that it is not a peaceful global movement - The Commonwealth Club of California

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, author, and filmmaker. Her first book, the international bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, was translated into twenty-eight languages and called "a movement bible" by The New York Times. She writes an internationally syndicated column for The Nation and The Guardian and reported from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina's occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws degree from the University of King's College, Nova Scotia.

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[eirefrance]

Its cute how some people think ad hominem attacks actually prove anything besides ideological blinders.

[whodat121980]

if it doesn't fit their agenda then it DOES NOT EXIST!

[islandmuffin]

@pimpingmrli What is Obama? TELL US!

You do realize that with our humanity destroying debt, Obama is proposing INCREASING spending? He thinks Government can SPEND America to prosperity without regard to the long-term economic damage his deficit spending has wrought upon humanity!

Obama remains ignorantly defiant/resistant to rational economics! Can Obama be more ignorant and wrong?

Yet, Democrats are still asking for MORE spending! Do you FEEL ashamed for left-wing ignorance?

[pimpingmrli]

@islandmuffin Obama is no Marxist.  Shows you don't really know anything about Marx...seems like you don't know much about Obama either.

[raisinsunn]

War on corporations. Rob the rich to feed the poor, that is what we gotta do.

[arzoyan]

The political reality show organised by corporate USA for corporate USA is on, Obama the black skin guy is on board of USA plc. the leader worshipPER, and flag waving unthinking, ignorant majority , nurtured by CORPORATE USA, are in HOPE. How can wage slavery change, Market system of artificial scarcity change, not by the rulers not by their puppets,  wake up you

[islandmuffin]

Marxism can be summed up in only a couple of phrases, "class struggle" and "victims vs. oppressors." Obama is clearly not interested in the ideas of Milton Friedman and Adam Smith. However, racial Marxists, like Obama, use race and gender as proxies for the victimization class to promote economic envy, class warfare and racial hatred in order to facilitate their progressive redistribution schemes.

[eirefrance]

@jstewart0420 Ohohohohohohoho, you really called me out.

I will cry some more sir.

[jstewart0420]

@eirefrance cry some more bitch

[davidmesaaz]

I love it how Klein fails to even mention that all but 3 countries North Korea Laos Cuba, have experienced "neoliberal" reforms. She picks and choose which countries fit her thesis.

Even China is not the neoliberal paradise that she claims it to be. It ranks 136 out of a 174 countries.

[tbktb]

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