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Naomi Kleni's "The Shock Doctrine" launched

category international | arts and media | other press author Saturday September 08, 2007 14:04author by infanticide

Naomi Klein has written a new book examining what she calls "the shock doctrine" which based on Friedman's economic theories has seen Globalised Capitalism built on successive "shocks" to societies and states. She likens the shock approach to market changes and cut government spending to interrogation techniques developed and still used by the CIA in the late 1940's for individuals.
As part of the launch, "The Guardian" has a short movie clip by Alfonso Cuaran & Klein ff just under 6 minutes duration which brings you through it quite neatly http://books.guardian.co.uk/video/2007/sep/07/naomiklein

review here http://books.guardian.co.uk/shockdoctrine/0,,2159184,00....html
home site of the book here - http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
the video -
http://books.guardian.co.uk/video/2007/sep/07/naomiklein



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