Texas Labor Against the War

Naomi Klein — a 38-year-old Canadian journalist, author, film-maker, and regular columnist for The Nation and The Guardian – came to international attention in 2000 when No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies became an international bestseller by examining the effects of corporate-led globalization on communities, workers, the culture and economy.

Klein’s new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, is a groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant economic ideology of our time: Milton Friedman’s University of Chicago free-market economic revolution. From Chile in 1973 to Iraq and New Orleans today, Klein shows how Friedman’s ideological followers have harnessed terrible shocks and violence to implement their radical economic policies of privatization and deregulation. As John Gray wrote in The Guardian, “There are very few books that really help us understand the present. The Shock Doctrine is one of those books.”

“Klein provides a rich description of the political machinations required to force unsavory economic policies on resisting countries and of the human toll. She paints a disturbing portrait of hubris, not only on the part of Friedman but also of those who adopted his doctrines, sometimes to pursue more corporatist objectives.” – Joseph E. Stiglitz, The New York Times Book Review

Watch Naomi Klein interviewed on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and FOX Business News.