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Disaster Capitalism
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."
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Capitalism Disaster

"... The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism"
-- Emma Goldman Biography - Anarchist, Feminist, Labor Advocate, 1869-1940

Disaster Capitalism History & Civil Business Politics

All of this can cause a person to think. I am not sure that anything bad is going to happen thought out the world but there are enough signs that point that way. We can sit back and watch and pray that it does not happen.

Capitalism Disaster

Capitalism Short Circuits Our Moral Hard-Wiring
By Gary Olson

Perhaps not since the 1930s have our citizens been more skeptical of received wisdom about our socioeconomic system. That is, the carefully manufactured narrative of market capitalist identity and its assumptions about human nature are now thrown into sharp relief.
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Finance Capitalism Hits a Wall
The Oligarchs' Escape Plan - at the Treasury's Expense
By Prof. Michael Hudson

The financial "wealth creation" game is over. Economies emerged from World War II relatively free of debt, but the 60-year global run-up has run its course. Finance capitalism is in a state of collapse, and marginal palliatives cannot revive it. The U.S. Economy cannot "inflate its way out of debt," because this would collapse the dollar and end its dreams of global empire by forcing foreign countries to go their own way. Ref. Source 2

Disaster Capitalism

I believe we are going to be seeing this in the stock market soon. I do not think that stocks can stay up where they are right now. Things are going to go downhill fast and soon in my opinion.

Disaster Capitalism

Racketeers for Capitalism
By Cindy Sheehan

The Empire preys on our kids using all the tools at its disposal: Economic panic, high college tuition, high unemployment and a mythology that the U.S. has some existential right to steal the resources of other nations. Ref. Source 2

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The documentary about the Shock Doctrine can be reviewed here: Source 8