In light of current crises,rexamining the Shock Doctrine-4/5

With Crises in Fuel, Food, Housing and Banking, What Gvt. Policies Are Being Pushed Through? Naomi Klein Reexamines "The Shock Doctrine"

As the country and the world reel from crises ranging from skyrocketing oil prices and global food shortages to housing and climate change, how best to understand the government policies being pushed through? We spend the hour with Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Klein also discusses Barack Obama's economic advisory team, whom she calls "Obama's Chicago Boys"; why she's suing the US government for spying on journalists like her; as well as her recent trip to China, where she says the government is building a high-tech police state with the help of US military contractors. [includes rush transcript]

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• shock
• doctrine
• naomi
• klein
• gas
• housing
• crisis
• food
• democracy

[fordeee2000]

This is ridiculous!!

So the free market is born out of shock and brutal supression with the use of torture and brutal suprssion. Well so has socialism, fascism and communism. Yeah what the CIA has done is rupugnant and wrong, but the KGB, SS, and a number of other secret agencies did these things in the name of an ideology.

She seems to think that all free market economists and politicians think the use of torture and military intervention is needed. Which is just not true.

[eversincealways]

Audio is fairly out of synch.