Book Review: The Shock Doctrine

Naomi Klein is a true intellectual and a fantastic investigative reporter. We cannot recommend her new book enough. The Shock Doctrine examines much of what is wrong with the privatization agenda being pushed by those in power. Here is some information about the book (you can order it here):

"With a bold and brilliantly conceived thesis, skillfully and cogently threaded through more than 500 pages of trenchant writing, Klein may well have revealed the master narrative of our time."

- William S. Kowinski
San Francisco Chronicle
September 23, 2007

Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay. --naomiklein.org