Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine - Part 2 of 6

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (http://policyalternatives.ca) presents:

Naomi Klein talks about her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Speaking at a benefit event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a social justice research institute.
Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

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• disaster
• capitalism
• iraq
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• neworleans
• katrina
• shockdoctrine

[bazmataz]

Nature doesn't need to be accountable to anyone. If anything, we are accountable to nature. We need to live within the boundaries of what nature can tolerate to sustain life on Earth.

The rest of your comment, about shareholders being tyrannical, I agree with.

[bazmataz]

Privatizing public utilities transfers power to market forces and the unaccountable tyranny of shareholders and boardrooms. That's not an abuse of language - that's a fact.

Putting economic power in the hands of tyrannical governments however isn't the answer either. The key is to reform democracy so that it responds to the needs of people, not profit.

[Outoftheclique]

This is such bullshjit you know it amazes me day by day that the left wing is even acknowledged

by the political system

[dagda825]

@bazmataz getting the people involved is key as well. until we all participate, it's all academic.

[martydrooo]

@bazmataz Profit is a need of the people, though.

[ZagorTeNay80]

I truly hope that people start getting what Milton Friedman started with the Chicago Boys and how much damage and innocent deaths he consequently is accounted for. Read Klein's book and read all the sources she states if necessary, but please try to see the truth. Talking about his ideas on education is just not worth it...he didn't see past system's flaws even after they blew up in his face(i.e. the whole South America)...

[preemiegirl]

@GarrettPetersen Milton Friedman's ideas for education are antiquated. Please look up "Finland's Education System" on youtube. They are using the best practices in education and they have the #1 system in the world.

[thegillotine09]

The quote at the end really gets to me. Where she says he wanted to "take advantage" of the people of New Orleans. What does Milton Friedman have to gain by hurting the people of New Orleans?

[GarrettPetersen]

Naomi Klein can only imagine the world as a zero sum game.

Milton Friedman didn't want to exploit the children of New Orleans. He wanted a school system that allowed students and their parents to choose the kind of schooling they wanted. He wanted a system under which schools and teachers who served students best would be rewarded and emulated, while schools and teachers who failed to serve their students would be allowed to fail.

[kimp401]

We will either wake up to the truth or wake up to a very different country. Billions are being spent on the right wing propaganda machines. Naomi Klein is telling the hard truth and you'd better believe it.

[MrsWebfoot]

It was corrupt liberal Democrats who were in power in New Orleans during Katrina, but why confuse Ms. Klein with facts.