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Titolo: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free
market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and
the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last
four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's
"free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the
exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq's civil war, a new law is unveiled that
would allow Shell and BP to claim the country's vast oil reserves..
Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly
out-sources the running of the "War on Terror" to Halliburton and
Blackwater.. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the
pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans's
residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public
housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened.. These events are
examples of "the shock doctrine": using the public's disorientation
following massive collective shocks - wars, terrorist attacks, or natural
disasters -- to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy.
Sometimes, when the first two shocks don't succeed in wiping out resistance,
a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun
on the streets.
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.
The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas through our
contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of
the recent past have been deliberate, active theatres for the shock
doctrine, among them: Pinochet's coup in Chile in 1973, the Falklands War in
1982, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1991, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in
1998.
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On 17 Gen, 11:06, "outis" <xxxxx@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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Cheppalle, ma dal 1848 ad ora non vi siete ancora stancati di 'sta
lagna?

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:129866f4-af19-403c...@j14g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
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Si vede che non sei disoccupato. 

 Si vede che non sei disoccupato.
Adesso no, ma mi è capitato e, probabilmente, mi potrà capitare
ancora.
Cosa che non provocherà la fine del capitalismo.

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outis l'anno scorso era tutto gongolante: credeva fosse finalmente
arrivato, dopo 150 anni, il momento del comunismo.
La delusione lo ha reso un po' livoroso...

 Si vede che non sei disoccupato.
Adesso no, ma mi � capitato e, probabilmente, mi potr� capitare
ancora.
Contento tu...
Cosa che non provocher� la fine del capitalismo.
Il capitalismo non finir� fino a quando non verr� abbattuto. Ma si tratta di 
un lavoro urgente. 

 Cheppalle, ma dal 1848
non mi risulta che Naomi Klein sia comunista. Ma che qualcuno sia
fissato con l'anticomunismo sì