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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 6 October 2008
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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq. In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term disaster capitalism. Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic shock treatment, losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman s free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement s peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
Mayday
"Truly horrific. . .delicious terror. . .MAYDAY is a novel for the true connoisseur of disaster novels."
-New York Times Book Review
Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo
passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both
nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the
plane.
From the master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot
Thomas Block comes MAYDAY - the classic bestseller that packs a
supersonic shock at every turn of the page...the most terrifyingly
realistic air disaster thriller ever.
Acts Of God - The Unnatural History Of Natural Disaster In America
The ten most costly catastrophes in U.S. history have all been
natural disasters--seven of them hurricanes--and all have occurred
since 1989, a period, ironically, that Congress has dubbed the Decade
for Natural Disaster Reduction. Ted Steinberg, professor of history
and law at Case Western Reserve University, looks at how much of
the death and destruction has been well within the realm of human
control. Surveying more than a century of losses from weather and
seismic extremes, he exposes the fallacy of seeing such calamities
as simply random events. Acts of God explores the unnatural history
of natural calamity, the decisions of business leaders and government
officials that have paved the way for the greater losses of life
and property, especially among those least able to withstand such
blows--America's poor, elderly and minorities. Seeing nature or
God as the primary culprit, Steinberg argues, has helped to obscure
the fact that, in truth, some Americans are better protected from
violence of nature than their counterparts lower down the socioeconomic
ladder. Donald Worster, the author of
Dust Bowl: The Southern
Plains in the 1930s, says, "This compelling book blows away
many obscuring clouds of misunderstanding and denial in our national
environmental memory."
