The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - mp3

AMY GOODMAN, DEMOCRACYNOW!: The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein on the Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Pinochet’s coup in Chile. The massacre in Tiananmen Square. The collapse of the Soviet Union. September 11th, 2001. The war on Iraq. The Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. Award-winning investigative journalist Naomi Klein brings together all of these world-changing events in her new book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” In her first national broadcast interview since the publication of “The Shock Doctrine,” Klein joins us in our firehouse studio for the hour. Klein writes, “The history of the contemporary free market was written in shocks.” She argues that “Some of the most infamous human rights violations of the past thirty-five years, which have tended to be viewed as sadistic acts carried out by anti-democratic regimes, were in fact either committed with the deliberate intent of terrorizing the public or actively harnessed to prepare the ground for the introduction of radical free-market reforms.”

Studs Terkel, historian and author of Working
\"Naomi Klein is . . . a muckraker who digs in where others accept the surface. I love her stuff.\"

Chalmers Johnson, author of the Blowback Trilogy
\"Naomi Klein\'s expos