The Shock Doctrine

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Postby AlanStrangis » Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:16 pm

LilyPatToo wrote:I get the impression from the bit of Naomi Klein's writings that I've read that she's beginning to realize that she's treading upon very, very dangerous ground. And she's too intelligent to barge ahead into Fringe Territory, because if she does, her opportunity to wake up the sleeping masses will end abruptly...and I think she knows that.

Hmmm.... I was just gonna post the same thing, but notice that she's not too afraid to dip her toe in the Deep Politics end of the pool.

That I see as a good thing, as many of my leftist* friends like Klein.

* by leftist I mean the kind of friend that often throws in "Well, Chomsky says..." at the beginning of any lengthy discourse. They also consider the very idea of someone like Viktor Bout unlikely, that it's the Afghan farmers making all the opium money so THAT'S why the fields aren't shut down fast enough, and the CIA doesn't run drugs, and who CARES whether Oswald... etc and also don't believe in the phrase "deep politics", and think the important thing is to make sure Hillary or Obama win the White House (though that Ron Paul is an interesting fellow, if only because he wants to "stop the war").

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Robert Reich.

Postby Hugh Manatee Wins » Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:36 pm

I just heard a radio interview with former Clinton cabinet member, economist Robert Reich.

Seems he's got a new book out on how capitalism has gone up while democracy has gone down since the 1960s.
His language sounded very academic and thus safe, much safer than Naomi Klein's and I'm not sure if he's going to go into US state-sanctioned terrorism. Doubt it, hunh?

I think the hidden history we are learning about from the likes of Webster Tarpley and Antony Sutton and Mike Ruppert and Gary Webb and Greg Palast etc. ...is being channeled into much much safer versions that will appease the curiosity of the NPR/PBS gate-kept intellectual class who are getting wind of 'some kind of system' they need to know about.

What a surprise, ay? Limited hang-out appeasement works.
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And all of this keeps people busy talking about something other than controlled demolition of the World Trade Center. That worked, too.
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Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism

Postby Trifecta » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:52 am

the future is already here—it just got distributed to the wealthy first
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Rick Snyder's Shock Doctrine

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