Naomi Klein

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein
Published 12 Jun 2017

Kleptocracy Free-For-All Baghdad gang of contractors descended on New Orleans Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 506. The company FEMA paid $5.2 million to build a base camp for emergency workers Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 495. FEMA paid Shaw $175 per square foot to install blue tarps on damaged roofs, even though tarps themselves provided by the government… Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 496.

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John Kerry: drought was a factor in tensions in Syria US Department of State, “Remarks at the Milan Expo 2015,” press release, October 17, 2015, accessed from https://groups.google.com/​forum/​#!topic/​wanabidii/​Xp6wYBlQIOg. Eyal Weizman: “astounding coincidence” Naomi Klein, “Let Them Drown,” London Review of Books 38, no. 11 (June 2, 2016), https://www.lrb.co.uk/​v38/​n11/​naomi-klein/​let-them-drown. Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh, The Conflict Shoreline: Colonialism as Climate Change in the Negev Desert (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2015), 99. Center for Naval Analyses: “The Middle East has always been associated with two natural resources…” CNA Corporation, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change (Arlington, VA: Center for Naval Analyses, 2007), accessed from https://www.scribd.com/​document/​4097167/​National-Security-the-Threat-of-Climate-Change.

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CHAPTER 10 When the Shock Doctrine Backfires Resistance, Memory, and the Limits to No Mekasi Camp Horinek: “I want to say thank you…” Alleen Brown, “Donald Trump Rewards Fossil Fuel Industry by Signing Climate Denial Executive Order,” TheIntercept.com, March 28, 2017, https://theintercept.com/​2017/​03/​28/​donald-trump-rewards-fossil-fuel-industry-by-signing-climate-denial-executive-order/; and author’s personal communication with Alleen Brown, n.d. When Argentina Said No Time magazine: Argentina’s economy a “miracle” Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 209. Fernando de la Rúa “groups that are enemies of order…” Naomi Klein, “Out of the Ordinary,” Guardian, January 25, 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/​world/​2003/​jan/​25/​argentina.weekend7. Argentina: thirty-day state of siege Clifford Krauss, “Reeling from Riots, Argentina Declares a State of Siege,” New York Times, December 20, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/​2001/​12/​20/​world/​reeling-from-riots-argentina-declares-a-state-of-siege.html.

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein
Published 11 Sep 2023

She started taking photographs of random clouds in upstate New York and London, prompting the environmental magazine Grist to declare, in 2018, that “Wolf is a cloud truther.” I always know when she has been busy—because my online mentions fill up instantly. With denunciations and excommunication (“I can’t believe I used to respect Naomi Klein. WTF has happened to her??”). And with glib expressions of sympathy (“The real victim in all this here is Naomi Klein” and “Thoughts and prayers to Naomi Klein”). How much does this identity merger happen? Enough that there is a viral poem, first posted in October 2019, that invariably shows up in these moments, and that been shared many thousands of times: If the Naomi be Klein you’re doing just fine If the Naomi be Wolf Oh, buddy.

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“They are sterilizing an entire generation”: Yew, tweet, May 23, 2021. “one foot in the grave”: Yew, tweet, May 23, 2021. “autocratic tyrants”: “Naomi Wolf Sounds Alarm at Growing Power of ‘Autocratic Tyrants,’” Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News, February 22, 2021. “This is your periodic reminder”: Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein, tweet, February 23, 2021, Twitter. “Still here, sadly”: Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein, tweet, June 5, 2021, Twitter. “a much-hyped medical crisis”: Naomi Wolf, 2021 introduction to The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021), xv. the “guise” of a medical emergency: “Naomi Wolf Sounds Alarm at Growing Power of ‘Autocratic Tyrants.’”

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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber
Published 1 Jan 2007

Brands are experiences, and brand experiences need to be “staged.”40 Good Morning America’s former producer Shelley Ross actually had a script for her stars that cast anchor Charles Gibson as “Dad,” and hence “Patriarch,” with Diane Sawyer as “the lover of all culture” and newsreader Robin Roberts as “the best friend.”41 Naomi Klein has reported in depth in her No Logo on what she calls these “‘brand vision’ epiphanies,” which she found under every marketing stone she turned over. Polaroid is no longer a camera but a “social lubricant,” IBM sells “business solutions” not computers, Swatch markets time rather than watches, and Diesel Jeans is a lifestyle “movement.” The idea is to embody a set of values, to deploy “attribute brands”—not to actually manufacture something, but, as Naomi Klein insists Tommy Hilfiger is doing, to be “in the business of signing his name.”42 Many brands today revolve around celebrities and personalities, from those like Michael Jordan and Larry King who are the brand, to those like Richard Branson (Virgin) and Phil Knight (Nike) and Bill Gates (Microsoft) who by turning a product into a celebrity reputation have, to a considerable degree, Martha Stewart style, become the brand.

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If their countries and tribes and religions can be made to appear as secondary to their global market tastes and youth-branded appetites as children, capitalism need not be impeded by pluralism. A global consumer economy in a world of differentiated cultures depends on the ability to sell uniform goods. According to Naomi Klein, the question is quite precisely: “What is the best way to sell identical products across multiple borders? What voice should advertisers use to address the whole world at once? How can one company accommodate cultural difference while still remaining internally coherent?”49 The business guru James U.

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The object is to displace traditional ascriptive identities associated with place and birth that are divisive and hence unsuited to the global marketplace—a twenty-something Turkish Kurd who is a Muslim—through contrived brand identities without borders: a twenty-something MTV-watching Pepsi drinker. Naomi Klein was one of the first to confront branding critically, observing in the mid-1990s that “what most global ad campaigns are still selling most aggressively is the idea of the global teen market—a kaleidoscope of multi-ethnic faces blending into one another: Rasta braid, pink hair, henna hand painting, piercing and tattoos, a few national flags, flashes of foreign street signs, Cantonese and Arabic lettering and a sprinkling of English words, all over the layered samplings of electronic music.”

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff
Published 7 Sep 2022

Douglas, “Gamification to Prevent Climate Change: A Review of Games and Apps for Sustainability,” Current Opinion in Psychology 41 (December 1, 2021): 89–94, https:// doi .org /10 .31219 /osf .io /3c9zj. 107   Evgeny Morozov points out : Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism (New York: PublicAffairs, 2013). 107   Hook Model : Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (New York: Portfolio, 2014). 108   Red flags abound : Andrea Valdez, “This Big Facebook Critic Fears Tech’s Business Model,” Wired , March 10, 2019, https:// www .wired .com /story /this -big -facebook -critic -fears -techs -business -model /. 108   “as big an existential threat” : The Social Dilemma, directed by Jeff Orlowski (Exposure Labs, The Space Program, Agent Pictures, 2020). 109   “They’re willing to see” : Douglas Rushkoff, interview with Naomi Klein, Team Human podcast, August 4, 2021, https:// www .teamhuman .fm /episodes /naomi -klein. Chapter 9: Visions from Burning Man 112   Shark Tank : A reality show where entrepreneurs pitch billionaires including Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran for investment. 113   “It’s well documented” : Nellie Bowles, “ ‘Burning Man for the 1%’: The Des ert Party for the Tech Elite, with Eric Schmidt in a Top Hat,” Guardian , May 2, 2016, https:// www .theguardian .com /business /2016 /may /02 /further -future -festival -burning -man -tech -elite -eric -schmidt. 113   “It’s important” : Bowles, “ ‘Burning Man for the 1%.’ ” 118   funneling capital from Colombia : Keith Larsen, “Investors Accuse Prodigy Network of Fraud at Troubled Park Ave Development,” Real Deal, September 24, 2020, https:// therealdeal .com /2020 /09 /24 /investors -accuse -prodigy -network -of -fraud -at -troubled -park -ave -development /. 118   charges of fraud : Global Property and Asset Management Inc., “Panic at Prodigy,” October 3, 2019, https:// globalpropertyinc .com /2019 /10 /03 /panic -at -prodigy /. 118   “game of life” : “Akasha—The Game of Life,” https:// www .playakasha .com, accessed August 10, 2021. 119   “exponential technologies … moonshots” : Singularity University, “An Exponential Primer,” https:// su .org /concepts /, accessed August 10, 2021. 119   “entrepreneurial leaders … planetary scale” : Singularity University, “Singularity University,” https:// su .org /, accessed August 10, 2021. 120   MacArthur Foundation : MacArthur Foundation, “100 & Change,” https:// www .macfound .org /programs /100change /. 122   She hated Robert Moses’s : Jane Jacobs, Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (New York: Random House, 1992). 123   new urbanism now amounts to : Rushkoff, Life Inc.: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back (New York: Random House, 2009), 74–83. 124   Rutt has applied : Jim Rutt, “A Journey to Game B,” Medium , January 14, 2020, https:// medium .com /@memetic007 /a -journey -to -gameb -4fb13772bcf3. 125   President Eisenhower : Center for the Study of Digital Life, http:// digitallife .center /, accessed August 10, 2021. 125   “Yet in holding scientific” : Dwight D.

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The group painfully lacks a structural critique of the market economy. Most of them appeared in the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma , which was widely acclaimed for its startling admissions by members of the tech industry, as well as its fictional movie-within-the-movie about a family devastated by its use of social media. Naomi Klein told me that she screened the movie to her undergraduate students at Rutgers. Watching the Center’s leaders opine about the dangers of platforms, the students said, “They’re willing to see everything except capitalism.” Instead, McNamee and others blame B. J. Fogg for teaching them such techniques, and share how they wouldn’t let their own kids use the apps they’ve built.

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For just as the Alliance for the New Humanity sought to combat media manipulation with more propaganda and solve the climate crisis by wasting more jet fuel, today’s leading efforts at correcting the ills of capitalism, industry, and technology seek to do so with more capitalism, industry, and technology. In her groundbreaking book The Shock Doctrine , Naomi Klein exposed the way oppressive governments, corporations, and wealthy individuals intentionally foment or seize upon natural and military disasters to establish neoliberal policies, entrench particular business interests, and build gated communities. So whether it’s Halliburton handling the logistics for Iraq’s postwar security and infrastructure, surveillance tech companies like Palantir winning contracts after 9/11, or the prison industry gaining business whenever there’s an increase in poverty and crime, those who profit off crises are incentivized to perpetuate them as well as the system that keeps this feedback loop in place.

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
by Stephen Graham
Published 30 Oct 2009

Henriksen , The Israeli Approach to Irregular Warfare, 40. 95 Imri Tov, ‘Economy in a Prolonged Conflict: Israel 2000–2003’, Strategic Assessment 6: 1, 2003, available at www.tau.ac.il. 96 USA Today, ‘US Military Employs Israeli Technology in Iraq War’, 24 March 2003. 97 Bernel Goldberg, ‘Introduction to WTCTA Breakfast Series: Israeli Investment and Trade Opportunities with the Pacific Northwest’, 4 May 2007, Tacoma, WA. 98 Naomi Klein, ‘Laboratory for a Fortressed World’, The Nation, 14 June 2007. 99 Donald Snyder, ‘Israel’s Technology Creates an Investment Goliath’, Fox Business. com, 16 January 2008. 100 Goldberg, ‘Israeli Investment and Trade Opportunities with the Pacific Northwest’. 101 Fairfax County Ecibiomic Development Authority, ‘Special Event: United States-Israel HLS Technologies Conference and B2B (Business to Business) Meetings between Israeli and US Companies’, 16–18 January 2007, available at www.fairfaxcountyeda.org. 102 Naomi Klein, ‘Laboratory for a Fortressed World’. 103 Israel High-Tech Investment Report, February 2008, available at www.ishitech.co.il. 104 Klein, ‘Laboratory for a Fortressed World’. 105 Jeffrey Larsen and Tasha Pravecek, ‘Comparative US-Israeli Homeland Security’, The Counterproliferation Papers, Future Warfare Series no. 34, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: United States Air Force Counterproliferation Center. 106 See Israeli Export and Economic Cooperation Institute, undated, at www.export.gov.il. 107 Klein, ‘Laboratory for a Fortressed World’. 108 Rafael Corporation, ‘Anti-Terror Homeland Security Solutions’, brochure, undated, available at www.rafael.co.il. 109 Ali Kravitz, ‘US Homeland Security Market Beckons’, Jerusalem Post, 18 January 2007. 110 James Carafano, Jonah Czerwinski, and Richard Weitz, ‘Homeland Security Technology, Global Partnerships, and Winning the Long War’, The Heritage Foundation, 5 October 2006, available at www.heritage.org. 111 Consuella Pockett, ‘The United States and Israeli Homeland Security: A Comparative Analysis of Emergency Preparedness Efforts’, Counterproliferation Papers Future Warfare Series no. 33, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: United States Air Force Counterproliferation Center, 150. 112 Ibid., 147. 113 State of Israel Ministry of Public Security, ‘Israel-USA Homeland Security Cooperation’, undated, available at www.mops.gov.il. 114 Joe Charlaff, ‘Joint Israeli-American Initiative to Streamline Homeland Security Management’, Israel 21c, 28 November 2004, available at www.usistf.org. 115 Fairfax County Economic Development Authority conference. 116 Ali Kravitz, ‘US Homeland Security Market Beckons’. 117 Defensoft.com press release. 118 Fairfax County Economic Development Authority conference. 119 Laura Goldman, ‘Israeli Technology to Keep US Borders Safe’, Israel21c.org, 15 Oct 2006. 120 Irreversible Consequences: Racial Profiling and Lethal Force in the ‘War on Terror’, briefing paper, New York University School of Law, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, 2006, 5. 121 Ibid., 13. 122 Nick Vaughan-Williams, ‘The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes: New Border Politics?’

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Such states of exception are declared not only to constitute the geographies of permanent violence that sustain the dominant economy but also to create what Achille Mbembe calls ‘death worlds’ – spaces such as Palestine, where vast populations are forced to exist as the living dead.92 In this way, states of emergency support broader geographies of accumulation through dispossession, which, while as old as colonialism, prove especially useful for neoliberal globalization. Here we confront the complex political economies of the new military urbanism and their central integration into what Naomi Klein has diagnosed as the tendency within contemporary neoliberal capitalism to engineer and/or to profit from catastrophic ‘natural’ or political-economic shocks.93 At issue is the character of what could be called the ‘new state spaces’ of war and violence, and their relation to political violence and contemporary geographies of dispossession.94 Citing the systematic Israeli bulldozing of homes and towns in Palestine, the similar erasure of Fallujah and other loci of Iraqi resistance, and the widespread erasure of informal settlements across the globe as city authorities entrepreneurially reorganize urban spaces, Kanishka Goonewardena and Stefan Kipfer point to ‘an ominously normalised reality experienced by the “damned of the earth” after the “end of history”’.

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New York: Routledge, 2003. 74 Simon Dalby ‘A Critical Geopolitics of Global Governance’, International Studies Association. 75 See Matt Hidek, ‘Networked Security in the City: A Call to Action for Planners’, Planners Network, 2007; Katja Franko, Analysing a World in Motion: Global Flows Meet ‘‘Criminology of the Other’’’, Theoretical Criminology 1: 2, 2007, 283–303 76 Amy Kaplan, ‘Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space’, Radical History Review 85, 2003, 82–93. 77 Ibid. 78 Ibid. 79 Paul Gilroy, ‘‘Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night’’: Homogeneous community and the planetary aspect’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 6: 3, 2003, 266. 80 Ibid, 261. 81 Lorenzo Veracini, ‘Colonialism Brought Home: On the Colonialization of the Metropolitan Space’, Borderlands 4: 1, 2005. 82 Sally Howell and Andrew Shryock, ‘Cracking Down on Diaspora: Arab Detroit and America’s ‘‘War on Terror’’’, Anthropological Quarterly 76:3, 2003, 443–62. 83 Jennifer Hyndman, ‘Beyond Either/Or: A Feminist Analysis of September 11th, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, February 2006. 84 Tim Watson, ‘Introduction: Critical Infrastructures After 9/11’, Postcolonial Studies 6, 109–11. 85 Ibid. 86 Allen Feldman, ‘Securocratic Wars of Public Safety’, 330–50. 87 Tony Blair, statement to the Press Association, 7 July 2005, quoted in Angharad Closs-Stephens, ‘7 million Londoners, 1 London’: National and Urban Ideas of Community in the Aftermath of the 7th July Bombings’, Alternatives 32: 2, 2007, 155–76. 88 Close-Stephens, ‘7 Million Londoners, 1 London’. 89 Paul Gilroy, ‘Multiculture in Times of War: An Inaugural Lecture Given at the London School of Economics’, Critical Quarterly 48:4, 29. 90 Ibid. 91 John Gray, ‘A Shattering Moment in America’s Fall from Power’, Observer, 28 October 2008. 92 Achille Mbembe, ‘Necropolitics’ Public Culture 15: 1, 2003, 11–40. 93 Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, London: Allen Lane, 2007. 94 The term ‘new state spaces’ comes from the pioneering book of that title by Neil Brenner, New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 95 Goonewardena and Kipfer, ‘Postcolonial Urbicide’. 96 See Chapter 9 and also Stephen Graham, ‘Switching Cities Off: Urban Infrastructure and US Air Power’, City 9: 2, 2005. 97 Kipfer and Goonewardena ‘Colonization and the New Imperialism’. 98 UN HABITAT, State of the World Cities 2006/7, Nairobi: United Nations, xi. 99 Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, New York: Grove, 2004. 100 Goonewardena and Kipfer, ‘Postcolonial Urbicide’, 28. 101 See Chapter 11. 102 Eyal Weizman, Hollow Land, London: Verso, 2007. 103 Eyal Weizman, ‘Lethal Theory’, LOG Magazine April 2005, 74. 104 Goonewardena and Kipfer, ‘Postcolonial Urbicide’, 28. 105 Ibid., 29. 106 ‘Predatory planning’ can be defined as ‘the intended process of dispossession through aggressive, global-powered planning processes and use of multiple redevelopment tactics (building blocks), in the wake of existing trauma.

Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover
by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and William Greider
Published 9 Jan 2009

Jackson 253 America Needs a New New Deal by Katrina vanden Heuvel and Eric Schlosser 255 What Do We Want? An Emergency Town Hall Featuring William Greider, Francis Fox Piven, Doug Henwood, Arun Gupta and Naomi Klein. Moderated by Christopher Hayes 260 The Global Perspective by Will Hutton 270 How to End the Recession by Robert Pollin 287 In Praise of a Rocky Transition by Naomi Klein 297 Acknowledgments 301 List of Contributors 303 Preface The year 2008 will live in infamy in the annals of American economic history. As mass foreclosures, bank failures and multibillion-dollar government bail-outs rocked the country, the media scrambled to stay on top of the big story of the moment: how the collapsing U.S. financial sector was threatening to take the rest of the economy down with it.

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by Jeff Faux 166 Part Three: The Crisis Hits The Panic of 2008 by Editors of The Nation 177 Bridge Loan to Nowhere by Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson 179 Crisis of a Gilded Age by Doug Henwood 188 Henry Paulson’s Shell Game by Joseph E. Stiglitiz 191 View from Asia by Walden Bello 196 Born-Again Democracy by William Greider 199 The Suicide Solution by Barbara Ehrenreich 207 The Great Depression II by Nicholas von Hoffman 210 We’re All Minskyites Now by Robert Pollin 213 The Bailout: Bush’s Final Pillage by Naomi Klein 217 Part Four: The Road to Recovery How to Fix Our Broken Economy by Jeffrey Madrick 225 Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program by Sarah Anderson and Sam Pizzigati 234 Trust but Verify by James K. Galbraith and William K. Black 244 King George and Comrade Paulson by Ralph Nader 247 A Big Government Bailout by Howard Zinn 249 Water the Roots by Rev.

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Moderated by Nation Washington editor Christopher Hayes, the panel featured national correspondent William Greider, famed author of the classic book on the Fed, Secrets of the Temple; Frances Fox Piven, longtime poor people’s activist and author of many books, including The Breaking of the American Social Compact; contributing editor Doug Henwood, author of Wall Street; Arun Gupta, activist and editor of the Indypendent newspaper; and columnist Naomi Klein, author of the bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Following is an edited transcript of their discussion. Chris Hayes: There are a lot of technical questions about this crisis that I don’t think we’re going to be able to resolve tonight: what’s a credit default swap and how does it work, for example.

The Capitalist Manifesto
by Johan Norberg
Published 14 Jun 2023

The proportion of the world population receiving basic education has skyrocketed and the illiteracy rates have almost halved: from 25.7 per cent to 13.5 per cent. In the age group 15–24, illiteracy is now just over 8 per cent. Between 2000 and 2020, child labour in the age group 5–17 decreased globally from 16 to just under 10 per cent.9 Global Progress: 1990–202010 The three decades after 1990 – when capitalism, according to Naomi Klein, enveloped the planet in its ‘most savage form’ – have seen greater improvements in human living conditions than the three millennia before that combined. It has also been three difficult decades, full of wars, crises and injustices. I am not saying that the era has been unequivocally good, only that it has been better than any other era humanity has experienced.

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Bernie Sanders said that the American dream was more alive in Venezuela than in the US. Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn praised Chávez for showing that ‘the poor matter and wealth can be shared’. Oxfam called Venezuela ‘Latin America’s inequality success story’. In an open letter to ‘Dear President Chávez’, luminaries of the Left such as Jesse Jackson, Naomi Klein, Howard Zinn and others state that they ‘see Venezuela not only as a model democracy but also as a model of how a country’s oil wealth can be used to benefit all of its people.’36 On paper, that $1,000 billion was enough to make every extremely poor individual in Venezuela a millionaire. But still, it is not much money if you do not invest it productively and if you destroy the ability to create new wealth with nationalization and price controls.

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Although the risks of their occurrence may be small, the consequences would be so enormous that it is worth investing quite a bit to insure ourselves against such an outcome. Reducing global warming and its consequences will require major changes. But which ones? A common line of argument is that the problem is the whole idea of an ever-growing economy with ever more planes and trucks ferrying people and goods across the continents around the clock. Leftists like Naomi Klein claim this is the inevitable result of global capitalism and ever-increasing production. But even a climate activist like Greta Thunberg complains that world leaders only talk about money and ‘some technical solutions’.2 This alludes to the widespread perception that we cannot rely on the growth and technology that have created the problems to solve them.

A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
by Tony Weis and Joshua Kahn Russell
Published 14 Oct 2014

To our elders and mentors, who remind us that the struggle has always been urgent, and that justice is a journey, not a destination. To everyone doing their part to co-create a better world, which the tar sands industry has no place in. The editors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to frontline grassroots environmental justice groups and campaigns. Table of Contents List of Contributors Foreword NAOMI KLEIN AND BILL MCKIBBEN Introduction: Drawing a Line in the Tar Sands TONY WEIS, TOBAN BLACK, STEPHEN D’ARCY, AND JOSHUA KAHN RUSSELL Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism 1. Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands ANGELA V. CARTER 2. Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar Sands RANDOLPH HALUZA-DELAY 3.

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He teaches and has published widely in sociology, environmental education, geography, and leisure studies, and co-edited How the World’s Religions are Responding to Climate Change: Social Scientific Investigations (Routledge). Ryan Katz-Rosene is a PhD candidate in Geography at Carleton University in Ottawa. His research interests include critical perspectives on growth, energy, and transportation, and environmental political economy. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo (both with Picador). Melina Laboucan-Massimo is a member of the Lubicon Cree First Nation in Alberta, Canada, and an Indigenous and environmental activist. She has worked with Redwire Media Society, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and, most recently, as a tar sands, climate, and energy campaigner with Greenpeace.

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She is a former co-editor of the award-winning magazine New Internationalist, and was a member of the campaign organization People & Planet. Lilian Yap is a doctoral student in Political Science at York University, analyzing the nature of “green work” and the recycling sectors in Toronto and Buenos Aires. Foreword NAOMI KLEIN AND BILL McKIBBEN The fight over the tar sands is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that managed to marry quite explicitly concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet. It began, of course, with many years of resistance from Indigenous people in the Athabasca region to the destruction of their ancestral landscapes and to the calamitous health conditions they faced.

Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis
by Johan Norberg
Published 14 Sep 2009

His book In Defense of Global Capitalism, originally published in Swedish in 2001, has since been published in over 20 different countries. He is also the author of Nar manniskan skapade varlden, 2006 (When Mankind Created the World), the coauthor of Ett annat Sverige ar mojligt, 2006 (Another Sweden Is Possible), and Global rattvisa ar mojlig, 2001 (Global Justice Is Possible), the coauthor of Allt om Naomi Kleins nakenchock, 2008 (Naomi Klein's Baseless Shock) and the coeditor of Frihetens klassiker, 2003 (The Classics of Freedom), all of which are available only in Swedish at this time. His personal website is http://www.johannorberg.net/. He wrote and hosted Globalisation Is Good, a documentary for Channel Four in Britain.

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An official admitted to the New York Times that Treasury did not expect any practical results. It was a symbolic action "to scare the hell out of everybody," as that official put it 39 As such, it was successful beyond expectations. Socialism for the Rich In her book The Shock Doctrine, Canadian writer Naomi Klein claimed that politicians and economists exploit crises to scare voters so that they can push through unpopular liberalizations, tax cuts, and privatizations. A look at the history of government in the Western world shows her to be right that politicians exploit crises, though seldom to liberalize and reduce the size of the state but rather to increase government control, public spending, and their own power.4o The Great Depression of the 1930s is one example of that; the week following the fall of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 is another.

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Oakley, "Short-Selling Ban Has Minimal Effect." 38. Younglai, "SEC's Cox Regrets Short-Selling Ban." 39. Nocera, "Alarm Led to Action." 40. For critical scrutiny of her book, see Norberg, "The Klein Doctrine" (and for more exhaustive treatment of the issue in Swedish, Benulic and Norberg, Allt oni Naomi Kleins nakenchock). 41. The next administration thinks along similar lines. On November 19, 2008, Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, treated the Wall Street Journal CEO Council to a description of the opportunity to create new political projects and regulate financial markets: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste....

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
Published 19 Feb 2019

Can capitalism survive climate change?: Moore raises this question in Capitalism in the Web of Life, and it is discussed at some length in Benjamin Kunkel, “The Capitalocene,” London Review of Books, March 2, 2017. Klein memorably sketched out: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007). the island of Puerto Rico: Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes On the Disaster Capitalists (Chicago: Haymarket, 2018). Maria could cut Puerto Rican incomes: This comes from Hsiang and Houser’s “Don’t Let Puerto Rico Fall into an Economic Abyss,” The New York Times, September 29, 2017.

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Trade will surely endure, perhaps even thrive, as indeed it did before capitalism—individuals making trades and exchanges outside a single totalizing system to organize the activity. Rent-seeking, too, will continue, with those who can scrambling to accumulate whatever advantages they can buy—the incentive only increasing in a world more barren of resources, and more mournful of recent apparent abundance, now disappeared. This last is more or less the model that Naomi Klein memorably sketched out in The Shock Doctrine, in which she documents just how monolithically the forces of capital respond to crises of any kind—by demanding more space, power, and autonomy for capital. The book is not primarily about the response of financial interests to climate disasters—it focuses more on political collapse and crises of the technocrats’ own making.

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the richest 10 percent: Oxfam, “Extreme Carbon Inequality,” December 2015, www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/mb-extreme-carbon-inequality-021215-en.pdf. many on the Left: The argument is a pervasive one, in part because it is so persuasive, but has been made with special flair by Naomi Klein in This Changes Everything and The Battle for Paradise; Jedediah Purdy in After Nature but perhaps more strikingly in his essays and exchanges published in Dissent; and of course Andreas Malm in Fossil Capital. the socialist countries: History is not a much better guide, with Left industrialization during Stalin’s Five Year Plan or Mao’s Great Leap Forward, or even Venezuela under Hugo Chávez not offering a more responsible approach than anything that was happening in the West.

Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill
Published 1 Jan 2007

Crush Them; Let Us Wage Total War on Our Foes,” Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2001. 7 Fox Special Report with Brit Hume transcript, “Terrorism Hits America,” Fox News, September 11, 2001. 8 Naomi Klein, “Downsizing in Disguise,” The Nation, June 23, 2003. 9 Ibid. 10 Ibid. 11 L. Paul Bremer, My Year in Iraq, pp. 6-7. 12 Knut Royce (Newsday), “Diplomat Expected to Take Charge in Iraq; Bremer to Replace Garner as Leader of Postwar Transition,” Seattle Times, May 2, 2003. 13 Naomi Klein, “Downsizing in Disguise,” The Nation, June 23, 2003. 14 Romesh Ratnesar with Simon Robinson, “Life Under Fire,” Time, July 14, 2003. 15 David Leigh, “General Sacked by Bush Says He Wanted Early Elections,” Guardian, March 18, 2004. 16 Mike Allen, “Expert on Terrorism to Direct Rebuilding,” Washington Post, May 2, 2003. 17 Bremer, My Year in Iraq, p. 8. 18 Scott Wilson, “Bremer Adopts Firmer Tone for U.S.

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Fast-forward to this autumn, when the Iraqi government accused Blackwater of massacring civilians in downtown Baghdad. Suddenly the book looked prescient and we learned that the same press corps that had cheered on the war had also missed the biggest story in the war zone: that Iraq is more than a failed occupation; it’s a radical experiment in corporate rule.”—Naomi Klein, The Guardian (London) “Andy McNab couldn’t have invented this prescient tale of the private army of mercenaries run by a Christian conservative millionaire who, in turn, bankrolls the president. A chilling expose of the ultimate military outsource.” —Christopher Fowler, The New Review’s “Best Books of 2007” “Fascinating and magnificently documented . . .

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This is definitely an expansion.”189 The U.S. government pays contractors as much as the combined taxes paid by everyone in the United States with incomes under $100,000, meaning “more than 90 percent of all taxpayers might as well remit everything they owe directly to [contractors] rather than to the [government],” according to a 2007 investigative report in Vanity Fair.190 As journalist Naomi Klein put it, “According to this radical vision, contractors treat the state as an ATM, withdrawing massive contracts to perform core functions like securing borders and interrogating prisoners, and making deposits in the form of campaign contributions.”191 “I think it’s extraordinarily dangerous when a nation begins to outsource its monopoly on the use of force and the use of violence in support of its foreign policy or national security objectives,” said veteran U.S. diplomat Joe Wilson, who served as the last Ambassador to Iraq before the 1991 Gulf War.

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions
by Jason Hickel
Published 3 May 2017

The idea has always been to keep the basic logic of capitalism – exponential growth – in place while trying to make it a little bit less destructive than it otherwise might be. But the climate change emergency forces us to discard this approach and think seriously about the logic of capitalism itself. As Naomi Klein puts it in her most recent book, This Changes Everything, ‘Our economic system and our planetary system are at war.62 What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it’s not the laws of nature.’

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Rajner, The Great Starvation: An Irish Holocaust (New York: American Ireland Education Foundation, 1996). 35 ‘According to Locke, this added …’ This logic was also developed by William Petty and John Davies, who were crucial to justifying the new imperialism. 36 ‘These land grabs took …’ For example, 1,000 Indians were killed in the Apalachee massacre of 1704, and another 1,200 or so were killed at Fort Neoheroka in 1713, to list two of the biggest massacres of that century. 37 ‘Yet farmers found that …’ Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts (London: Verso, 2000), p. 290. 38 ‘And with water sources enclosed …’ Ibid., pp. 327–31. 39 ‘During the period from 1875 …’ Ibid., p. 299. 40 ‘“We are not dealing …”’ Ibid., p. 9. 41 ‘It worked: India, once …’ Ibid., p. 298. 42 ‘By the time they left …’ Angus Maddison, The World Economy, OECD, 2006. 43 ‘And, as in India …’ Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts. 44 ‘In the middle of the …’ Paul Bairoch, Economics and World History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). 45 ‘Even as late as 1800 …’ Paul Bairoch, ‘The Main Trends in National Economic Disparities since the Industrial Revolution’, in Paul Bairoch and Maurice Levy-Leboyer (eds), Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1975), pp. 3–17. 46 ‘Indian artisans enjoyed a better …’ Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts, pp. 292–3. 47 ‘From 1872 to 1921 …’ According to figures cited in Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts, pp. 311–12. 48 ‘Ten million Congolese perished …’ Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (London: Pan Books, 2006), pp. 225–33. 49 ‘And the costs of caring …’ Harold Wolpe, ‘Capitalism and cheap labor power in South Africa: from segregation to apartheid’, Economy and Society 1(4), 1972, pp. 425–56; J. S. Crush et al., South Africa’s Labor Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991). 50 ‘From the late 15th …’ I am indebted to Naomi Klein for the concept of the sacrifice zone. 51 ‘By contrast, incomes in Western …’ Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008), p. 25. 52 ‘At the end of this …’ Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), p. 69. 53 ‘This agenda became particularly clear …’ The Roosevelt Corollary was initially established to allow the US to respond militarily if Europeans invaded Latin America, which happened in 1902 when Britain, Germany and Italy blockaded Venezuela to demand debt repayment. 54 ‘The first was that the …’ One reason for this is that manufactured commodities have greater ‘elasticity of demand’, meaning that their prices rise as incomes rise.

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But protectionism in the US, which was difficult to dislodge at the time, precluded this option – so they chose instead to deepen ISI, while negotiating for the best possible terms. See Sylvia Maxfield and James Nolt, ‘Protectionism and the Internationalization of Capital’, International Studies Quarterly 34(1), 1990, pp. 49–81. 21 ‘When President Dwight Eisenhower took …’ My grasp of this narrative owes much to Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine (London: Allen Lane, 2007) and Noel Maurer, The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of US Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893–2013 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013). 22 ‘Operation Ajax was one of …’ The first successful attempt by the United States to overthrow a foreign government was in Cuba in 1933, when the US backed Fulgencio Batista in his uprising against the revolutionary government of Gerardo Machado.

Undoing Border Imperialism
by Harsha Walia
Published 12 Nov 2013

I am indebted to Hari Alluri, Lisa Bhungalia, Fariah Chowdhury, Stefan Christoff, Nassim Elbardouh, Mary Foster, Harjap Grewal, Stefanie Gude, Alex Hundert, Andrew Loewen, Cecily Nicholson, Dana Olwan, Dawn Paley, Sozan Savehilaghi, Andréa Schmidt, Parul Sehgal, Naava Smolash, and Shayna Stock for their diligent comments and edits. Any errors within this book, however, are my own. Thank you to all the brilliant contributors for their wisdom, Andrea Smith for honoring the book with a foreword, Ashanti Alston, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Naomi Klein, and Vijay Prashad for humbling blurbs, Melanie Cervantes and Josh MacPhee of Justseeds for stunning design work, Zach Blue, Christa Daring, and Charles Weigl of AK Press for publishing this manuscript, and Chris Dixon and Cindy Milstein of the IAS for soliciting, encouraging, supporting, and editing this manuscript, and essentially being the backbone of this entire process.

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According to Detention Watch Network, five prison corporations that hold contracts with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have poured twenty million dollars into lobbying efforts.(55) Arizona’s controversial SB 1070, which legalizes racial profiling based on “suspicion of being an illegal immigrant,” was drafted during a meeting between state legislators and the Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison corporation in the United States.(56) This is part of what Naomi Klein calls “a privatized security state, both at home and abroad,” as she outlines how the War on Terror has maximized profitability for security markets.(57) In this lucrative market of migrant detention and border securitization, the value of Israeli exports in security technologies has almost quadrupled.(58) A notable example is the contract for the border fence between the United States and Mexico going to a consortium of companies including Elbit.

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Detention Watch Network, “The Influence of the Private Prison Industry in Immigration Detention,” http://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/privateprisons (accessed July 5, 2012). 56. Laura Sullivan, “Prison Economics Help Drive Arizona Immigration Law,” National Public Radio, October 28, 2010, http://www.npr.org/2010/10/28/130833741/prison-economics-help-drive-ariz-immigration-law (accessed November 1, 2012). 57. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), 299. 58. “Israel Shows Off Its Homeland Security Technologies to International Visitors,” Times of Israel, May 20, 2012, http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-shows-off-its-homeland-security-technologies-to-international-visitors/ (accessed July 6, 2012). 59.

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture
by Taylor Clark
Published 5 Nov 2007

In fact, if you read a comment by a Starbucks employee and he or she doesn’t mention the “Starbucks Experience,” the phrase “surprise and delight,” or the company mission statement, something has gone horribly wrong. Because once Starbucks figured out what its customers wanted, it never went off-message again. Phase 2: Salivating at the Dinner Bell That Starbucks would seek to become — in the liberal social critic Naomi Klein’s words — “the coffee shop that wants to stare deep into your eyes and ‘connect’ ” was no surprise, given the tenor of the time. After the minor cataclysm known as “Marlboro Friday” sent Wall Street into a panic, every American company with a pulse scrambled to infuse itself with a lofty “purpose.”

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“These guys at Starbucks are seriously good at locating coffee bars,” wrote one of them, David Schomer of Seattle’s Espresso Vivace, in a primer on how to compete with Starbucks. “Just open your coffee bar next to one.” As Schomer knows, in a side-by-side comparison, customers will often choose quality and uniqueness over efficiency and uniformity. Naomi Klein, creator of the antichain “No Logo” movement, has lambasted Starbucks over its habit of clustering stores and opening next to mom and pops, but in the coffee-house business, a cluster of cafés can do better as a group than each café would alone. Just as a thicket of restaurants or gas stations will amplify business for everyone by forming a nexus people instinctively gravitate toward when they think food or gas, a Starbucks and an independent can work in tandem to draw more coffee drinkers.

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For more on Starbucks’s marketing and the story of the “Big Dig,” see Scott Bedbury and Stephen Fenichell, A New Brand World: 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century (New York: Viking, 2002); and Kim Murphy, “More Than Coffee, a Way of Life,” Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1996. Page 92. The story of Starbucks hypnotizing “hip young people” comes from Ruth Shalit, “Hypnotizing Slackers for Starbucks, and Other Visionary Acts of Marketing Research,” Salon.com, September 28, 1999. Page 93. Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2002). David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). Page 94. Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang, Pour Your Heart into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time (New York: Hyperion, 1997).

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein
Published 15 Sep 2014

Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s magazine, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and a syndicated columnist for The Nation and The Guardian. She is a member of the board of directors of 350.org and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute. MEET THE AUTHORS, WATCH VIDEOS AND MORE AT SimonandSchuster.com authors.simonandschuster.com/Naomi-Klein ALSO BY NAOMI KLEIN The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate We hope you enjoyed reading this Simon & Schuster eBook. * * * Join our mailing list and get updates on new releases, deals, bonus content and other great books from Simon & Schuster.

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You and What Army? Indigenous Rights and the Power of Keeping Our Word 12. Sharing the Sky: The Atmospheric Commons and the Power of Paying Our Debts 13. The Right to Regenerate: Moving from Extraction to Renewal Conclusion  The Leap Years: Just Enough Time for Impossible Acknowledgments About Naomi Klein Notes Index For Toma “We need to remember that the work of our time is bigger than climate change. We need to be setting our sights higher and deeper. What we’re really talking about, if we’re honest with ourselves, is transforming everything about the way we live on this planet.” —Rebecca Tarbotton, Executive Director of the Rainforest Action Network, 1973–20121 “In my books I’ve imagined people salting the Gulf Stream, damming the glaciers sliding off the Greenland ice cap, pumping ocean water into the dry basins of the Sahara and Asia to create salt seas, pumping melted ice from Antarctica north to provide freshwater, genetically engineering bacteria to sequester more carbon in the roots of trees, raising Florida 30 feet to get it back above water, and (hardest of all) comprehensively changing capitalism.”

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More personal thanks go to Misha Klein, Michele Landsberg, Stephen Lewis, Frances Coady, Nancy Friedland, David Wall, Sarah Polley, Kelly O’Brien, Cecilie Surasky and Carolyn Hunt, Sara Angel, Anthony Arnove, Brenda Coughlin, John Greyson, Stephen Andrews, Anne Biringer, Michael Sommers, Belinda Reyes, and Ofelia Whiteley. My deepest thanks go to little Toma, for his truly heroic feats of toddler patience. He is about to learn that the world is a lot bigger than our neighborhood. Photograph © Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times/Redux NAOMI KLEIN is an award-winning journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed #1 international bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, which The New York Times called “a movement bible.” Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s magazine, a reporter for Rolling Stone, and a syndicated columnist for The Nation and The Guardian.

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
by Joel Bakan
Published 1 Jan 2003

People should confront corporations directly, in the streets and through nongovernmental organizations and community coalitions , they say, rather than relying on governments to forge solutions. "We should be directly pointing the finger at businesses, not even bothering with the governments," says Anita Roddick,19 reflecting a widely held view that is also expressed by antiglobalization activist and pundit Naomi Klein: "We see corporations as the most powerful Page 151 political entities of our time, and we are responding to them as citizens , citizens to political organizations. . . . The corporation has become the new site of protest. . . . Rather than protesting on the doorsteps of governments on Sunday afternoon when no one is there, they're protesting outside of the Niketown on Fifth Avenue."

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Robert Monks says, "Particularly since the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, it probably is clear that the heads of large corporations have more impact on your life and the lives of citizens around the world than the head of any country." 51. Interviews with Chris Komisarjevsky and Clay Timon. For an excellent critical discussion of branding and its implications for society, see Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2000). More generally, the notion that corporations are persons-individuals- Back Matter Page 7 176 NOTES has served throughout history to obscure, in both law and public opinion, the fact that corporations exercise the collective economic power of vast numbers of shareholders and thus are profoundly more powerful than the rest of us. 52.

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And today I think that corporations are externalizing a lot of costs onto the community, whether it's the cost of burning up employees by increasing the work time, by working them for a few years and then throwing them out, by not paying the full cost of the labor that employees give to a firm, by coming into a community, getting all sorts of grants, and then turning around and leaving it in worse shape than they entered. All of those things externalize the cost onto the community of the corporation." 19. Quoted in Editorial, The Sunday Herald (Scotland), August 26, 2001. 20. Interview with Naomi Klein. 21. Interview with Noam Chomsky. 22. Indeed, from the perspective of its supposed beneficiaries, the regulatory system was imperfect from the beginning. Historically, regulation was a compromise, supported by many among the business elite, between business 's desire for freedom from controls and calls for more radical change.

Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook
Published 28 Mar 2016

In their popular critique of economic inequality, The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett tell us that “we need to limit economic growth severely in rich countries,” because “[o]nce we have enough of the necessities of life, it is the relativities which matter.”13 Similarly, best-selling author Naomi Klein argues that to truly deal with the problem of inequality, we must reject capitalism altogether, give up on the idea of economic progress, and embrace a decentralized agrarian form of socialism.14 Left-wing radio host Thom Hartmann will settle merely for banning billionaires: “I say it’s time we outlaw billionaires by placing a 100% tax on any wealth over $999,999,999.

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In every case, Piketty acknowledges that “these very high brackets never yield much” in the way of tax revenues. That is not the point. The point, he says, is “to put an end to such incomes and large estates.”78 The most consistent alarmists—those who value equality above all else—openly admit that they do not care about freedom and progress. Best-selling author Naomi Klein argues that to truly deal with the problem of inequality, we must reject capitalism altogether, give up on the idea of economic progress, and embrace a decentralized agrarian form of socialism.79 In The Spirit Level, Wilkinson and Pickett reach a similar conclusion, telling us that “we need to limit economic growth severely in rich countries.”

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We Can Choose Otherwise,” Washington Monthly, November/December 2014, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember_2014/features/conclusion_slow_growth_and_ine052716.php (accessed April 12, 2015). 11. Obama, “Remarks by the President on Economic Mobility.” 12. Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 513, 517. 13. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009), pp. 225–26. 14. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014). 15. Thom Hartmann, “The No Billionaires Campaign,” OpEdNews, July 18, 2012, http://www.opednews.com/populum/printer_friendly.php?content=a&id=153218 (accessed April 12, 2015). 16. Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality, p. 8. 17.

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement
by Amy Lang and Daniel Lang/levitsky
Published 11 Jun 2012

ISBN 978-1-78026-085-3 Contents Preface Staughton Lynd Foreword Eileen Myles Anonymous Introduction Amy Schrager Lang & Daniel Lang/Levitsky The Politics of the Impossible Information Desk Richard Kim The Audacity of Occupy Wall Street Ira Livingston Darth Vader and Occupy Wall Street: A Twitter Essay Naomi Klein The Most Important Thing in the World Media Declaration of the Occupation of New York City Occupy Student Debt Campaign Pledges & Principles The Mortville Declaration of Independence Council of Elders Occupy Wall Street Statement of Solidarity UAW Local 2865 Resolution in Support of Occupy Oakland General Strike American Library Association Occupy Wall Street Library Resolution & Press Statement jóvenes en resistencia alternativa Solidarity Statement: We walk by asking, we reclaim by Occupying Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq Message of Solidarity to Occupy Wall Street Comrades from Cairo Response to OWS Egypt Delegation Proposal Library Barbara Kingsolver Another American Way Angus Johnston What I Saw at #OccupyWallStreet Last Night, and What I Saw When I Left Adrienne Maree Brown from liberty plaza; let it breathe Adrienne Maree Brown, Jenny Lee, Yusef Shakur, et al One Step in Building the ‘Occupy/Unify’ Movement in Detroit Keguro Macharia Occupy DC (Hasty Notes) Jaime Omar Yassin Occupy Oakland Day Four: Wherein I speak to some folks, and the General Assembly debates MoveOn’s move in Facilitation Anne Tagonist Heirs to the Autonomen DeColonize LA Statement Larisa Mann On Occupy Wall Street Hannah Chadeyane Appel The Bureaucracies of Anarchy (Parts 1 & 2) Sonny Singh Occupying Process, Processing Occupy: Spokes Council musings by one POC Safer Spaces Jaime Omar Yassin Occupy Oakland: Hugs Are Also an Option Occupy Boston Women’s Caucus Statement A Bunch of Trans Women Occupiers OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny Aaron Bady Society Must Be Defended From Rats Occupy Wall Street Safer Spaces Working Group Transforming Harm & Building Safety: Confronting sexual violence at Occupy Wall Street and beyond People of Color Bruce A Dixon Occupy Where?

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Ira Livingston, by contrast, in Twitter-inspired 140-character lines echoing the way information circulates about Occupy, meditates on the impossibility of inhabiting neoliberal late capitalism. Deploying the fantasies of omnipotence that in US commercial culture carry fascist overtones, but in lived experience provide the possibility for social agency, he considers how we move from a sudden sense of political vitality to an active political stance. Naomi Klein, recalling the successful direct action that shut down the 1999 World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle and the less successful subsequent actions at international financial institution summits that followed, addresses the difference that unlimited time and a changed target makes.

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. ♦ (Acknowledgments: Many thanks to Thad Ziolkowski for insight into the VW ad, Jennifer Miller for citing Dread Scott, and apologies to Jayna for the Woody Guthrie references!) bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/darth-vader-and-occupy-wall-street-a-twitteressay-by-ira-livingston/trackback/ I’LL BELIEVE CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE WHEN TEXAS EXECUTES ONE The Most Important Thing in the World Naomi Klein 6 October 2011 I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (aka ‘the human microphone’), what I actually say at Liberty Plaza will have to be very short.

Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
by Gideon Rachman
Published 1 Feb 2011

The original antiglobalizers had been outflanked by a much more violent, ruthless, and radical rejectionist movement. The critics of globalization were so diverse that it is impossible to pick a single figure to exemplify the movement. They ranged all the way from a Nobel Prize–winning economist like Joseph Stiglitz to fulminating journalists like Naomi Klein to—at the extreme end—terrorist movements like al-Qaeda. The antiglobalization crowd included far-left radicals who despised global capitalism and far-right radicals who believed that globalization was an excuse for the creation of a single world government. Some argued that globalization was destroying the livelihoods of Western workers by subjecting them to merciless competition from Asians laboring for less than a dollar a day.

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South Korea and Thailand were two of the biggest victims of the Asian economic crisis, but the South Koreans only had to look across the border to North Korea to be reminded that economic isolation offered far worse and more devastating prospects. The Thais could perform the same exercise by looking across their western border into isolated, dictatorial, impoverished Burma, where a military junta had violently repressed the country’s democracy movement in 1990. What Joseph Stiglitz and Naomi Klein put their fingers on was a feeling that globalization was a project that benefited elites more than ordinary people. It was certainly true that the globalization consensus seemed firmest in places where the international political and business elite gathered, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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THE ANTIGLOBALIZERS: FROM THE ASIAN CRISIS TO 9/11 1. Philippe Legrain, Open World: The Truth about Globalisation (London: Abacus, 2002), 17. 2. Quoted in Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008), 256. 3. Ibid., 257. 4. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine (New York: Henry Holt, 2007). 5. Quoted in Legrain, Open World, 25. 6. Cited in William Greider, Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country (New York: Rodale, 2009), 70. 7. Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (London: Penguin, 2002), 4. 8.

Pity the Billionaire: The Unexpected Resurgence of the American Right
by Thomas Frank
Published 16 Aug 2011

Over the last four decades, Thatcher’s ideological comrades brought their free-market plans to countries all around the globe, remaking the souls of Chileans, Argentines, Poles, and Iraqis as the opportunities presented. Societies were “transformed,” all right: dynamited, bulldozed, privatized, swept away. And in the classic 2007 account of this particular chapter in civilization’s development, the journalist Naomi Klein explains that it often happened in the aftermath of crises: hurricanes, military coups, civil wars. An entire program of market-based reforms would be installed all of a sudden as a sort of “shock therapy” when traditional social systems had been knocked off balance.8 Let me repeat, before we proceed, that what I am describing were the acts of conservatives: professional economists using crisis to impose what they knew to be the correct social model—the market model—on nations that were not really interested in it.

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Also: that this really happened, that the economists talked about it openly. To hear the resurgent Right tell it, however, the only place where you’ll find such ruinous strategies in discussion are in the war rooms of the sneaky Left, as they plot to destroy the free market itself. In a curious inversion of Naomi Klein’s argument, the rejuvenated Right fastened on a single flippant 2008 remark from then-incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel—“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste”—and convinced itself on the basis of this one clue that a cadre of left-wingers were planning all manner of offenses against democracy including, in some tellings, the overthrow of capitalism itself, with the financial crisis as a pretext.

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According to political scientist David Campbell and sociologist Robert Putnam, Tea Party activists tended to be highly partisan Republicans before the Tea Party conquered the headlines in 2009. See Campbell and Putnam, “Crashing the Tea Party,” New York Times, August 16, 2011. 7. See, for example, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/matthew-vadum-The-Lefts-Blueprint-for-perpetual-power-94527604.html. 8. See Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine (New York: Metropolitan, 2007), pp. 6–7. 9. Glenn Beck, The Overton Window, p. 147. 10. Ibid., pp. 74, 276, 286, 296–97, and again on 303–4. 11. FEMA’s plans also would have outlawed strikes. See Jack Anderson’s column on the subject, September 25, 1984. See also Alfonso Chardy, “Reagan Advisers Ran ‘Secret’ Government,” Miami Herald, July 5, 1987. 12.

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet
by Jane Gleeson-White
Published 14 May 2011

As such, practitioners of the rare mathematic arts can become the powerful priests of investing, thanks to their strange and obscure language, much the way the medieval church trafficked in Latin’. The antics of the share market and its mathematical wizards manipulate not only the wealth of individuals and corporations, they also dramatically shape the political life of nations. Naomi Klein gives a stark example of the impact of markets on politics. Following the election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, ‘Every time a top party official said something that hinted that the ominous Freedom Charter might still become policy, the market responded with a shock, sending the rand into free fall.

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A grand plan to remake their country—a plan which had been conceived in the aftermath of the civil war—was carried out after the tsunami had ruined the beaches where the fishermen lived. International organisations, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, arrived to ‘plot Sri Lanka’s entry into the world economy’, as Naomi Klein puts it. Before the makeover overseen by these organisations, the men’s small-scale fishing had been their livelihood, giving them enough to feed their families. But their subsistence fishing did not contribute to economic growth as measured by the GDP figures used by organisations such as the World Bank and so it was expendable.

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p. 219 ‘accounts are used to . . .’ Ibid., p. 47. p. 220 ‘Most are idiot savants brought . . .’ Frank Ahrens, ‘For Wall Street’s math brains, miscalculations’, Washington Post, 21 August 2007. p. 220 ‘Math’s universal principles . . .’ Ibid. p. 221 ‘Every time a top party official said something . . .’ Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, Penguin Books, Camberwell, 2007, p. 207. p. 222 Economist Raj Patel points out that . . . The discussion of the corporation draws extensively on Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2009, p. 41. p. 222 Enron is revealed as having behaved . . . Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A financial history of the world, Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2008, p. 172.

Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
by Johan Norberg
Published 31 Aug 2016

Stockholm: Bonniers, 2009, p. 15. 4 ‘Hearing to receive testimony on the impacts of sequestration and/or full-year continuing resolution of the Department of Defense’, US Senate, Committee on Armed Services, Washington DC, 12 February 2013. http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/13-03%20-%202-12-13.pdf (accessed on 12 April 2016). 5 ‘Pope criticizes globalization, denies he is Marxist’, TeleSUR, 11 January 2015. http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Pope-Criticizes-Globalization-Denies-he-is-Marxist-20150111-0015.html (accessed on 12 April 2016). 6 Suzanne Goldenberg, ‘Naomi Klein: “We tried it your way and we don’t have another decade to waste” ’, Guardian, 14 September 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/14/naomi-klein-interview-capitalism-vs-the-climate (accessed on 12 April 2016). 7 John Gray, Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions. London: Granta UK, 2004, p. 32. 8 Angus Maddison, The World Economy: Historical Statistics.

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General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently testified before US Congress: ‘I will personally attest to the fact that . . . [the world] is more dangerous than it has ever been.’4 Pope Francis claims that globalization has condemned many people to starve: ‘It is true that in absolute terms the world’s wealth has grown, but inequality and poverty have arisen.’5 On the political left, activist Naomi Klein argues our civilization is ‘on a collision course’, and that we are ‘destabilising our planet’s life support system’.6 On the right, philosopher John Gray thinks that human beings are ‘homo rapiens’, a predatory and destructive species that is approaching the end of civilization.7 I used to share their pessimism.

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century
by Ronald Bailey
Published 20 Jul 2015

In his 2014 book, Oil and Honey, McKibben sees future climate change as portending “an endless chain of disasters that will turn civilization into a never-ending emergency response drill.” McKibben’s prescription is a turn away from global consumerism toward the organic and local, to “a nation of careful, small-scale farmers who can adapt to the crazed new world with care and grace, and who don’t do much more damage in the process.” Fierce progressive activist Naomi Klein in her newest screed, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, declares, “Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war.” Klein asserts that the progressive values and policies she advocates are “currently being vindicated, rather than refuted, by the laws of nature.” Climate science, she further claims, has given progressives “the most powerful argument against unfettered capitalism” ever.

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In addition, the researchers note, beliefs about the risks of climate change “come to bear meanings congenial to some cultural outlooks but hostile to others.” In this case, Egalitarian/Communitarians, who are generally eager to rein in what they regard as the unjust excesses of technological progress and commerce, see carbon rationing as an effective tool to achieve that goal. This view is distilled in Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Not surprisingly, Hierarchical/Individualists are highly suspicious when proposals involving carbon rationing just happen to fit the cultural values and policy preferences of Egalitarian/Communitarians. Kahan and his colleagues at the Yale Cultural Cognition Project suggest the Hierarchical/Individualists discount scientific information about climate change because it is strongly associated with the promotion of carbon rationing as the exclusive policy remedy for the problem.

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The Climate Change Bottom Line Despite the current pause in global warming and the real failings in climate computer model projections, the balance of the scientific evidence suggests that man-made climate change could become a significant problem by the end of this century. As we have seen, political progressives and environmentalists like Naomi Klein fervently promote the “climate crisis” as a pretext for radically transforming the world’s economy in ways that ratify their own ideological predilections. Thus they advocate the imposition of vast top-down regulatory schemes that ultimately amount to various forms of carbon and energy rationing.

Reset
by Ronald J. Deibert
Published 14 Aug 2020

Drawing inspiration from some of the ways republican-inspired thinkers have conceptualized restraint mechanisms in the past, I put forward some suggestions for how we might think about restraint measures in our own times — as means to rein in the excesses of social media and guard against abuses of power, all the while preserving the great potential of our communications ecosystem. After our reset, I argue, we need to double down on restraint. * * * While Reset is written in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, its larger backdrop is the looming climate crisis and the existential risks it poses to human civilization. As environmental activist and author Naomi Klein has put it, “Humbling as it may be, our shared climate is the frame inside which all of our lives, causes, and struggles unfold.”24 If it wasn’t apparent before, it should be now: nature is an inescapable force and the foundation for our very being. Pandemics, rising sea levels, melting ice caps, and escalating surface temperatures show that we are all in this together: one species, one planet.

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The companies trumpet their powerful machine learning and artificial intelligence systems, but their enterprises are “actually held together by tens of millions of anonymous workers tucked away in warehouses, data centres, content-moderation mills, electronic sweatshops, [and] lithium mines … where they are left unprotected from disease and hyper-exploitation,” as author Naomi Klein so aptly summarized.392 The ecosystem has spawned a bewildering variety of invasive species that thrive by feeding on the continuously expanding pools of data that spew forth each millisecond of every day: app developers, data brokers, location trackers, data fusion companies, artificial intelligence start-ups, and private intelligence firms.

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The rise of individualism … and nationalism: Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Verso; Deibert, R. (2000). Parchment, printing, and hypermedia: Communication and world order transformation. Columbia University Press; McLuhan, M. (1963). The Gutenberg galaxy. University of Toronto Press. As … Naomi Klein has put it: Klein, N. (2019, August 21). Why the Democratic National Committee must change the rules and hold a climate debate. Retrieved from https://theintercept.com/2019/08/21/climate-debate-dnc/ Chapter One: The Market for Our Minds Initial coverage of the PRISM program: Greenwald, G., & MacAskill, E. (2013, June 7).

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle
Published 14 Oct 2022

If Hussein had engaged in crony socialism, the Americans were engaging in crony capitalism. None of this was lost on the Iraqis themselves, now reduced to unemployed bystanders in the Iraq rebuilding charade. No wonder many began contemplating using their remaining resources to join an insurgency against the American occupiers and their armies of private contractors. Naomi Klein, in her book The Shock Doctrine, portrays the course of events in Iraq as flowing directly from neoliberal principles cooked up in University of Chicago economics seminars and straightforwardly applied in this unfortunate Arab country. “The ‘fiasco’ of Iraq,” she writes, “is one created by a careful and faithful application of unrestrained Chicago School ideology.”24 But this is too simple a diagnosis.

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Across the next five years, left-leaning intellectuals and politicians acquired an influence on American politics that they had not enjoyed since the heyday of the New Deal order in the 1930s and 1940s.59 The leftist moment that Occupy inaugurated was marked by the flourishing of the so-called little magazines of the left, old (Dissent) and new (n + 1 and Jacobin), full of ideas about how to build radically different futures; by dramatic growth in the membership of the Democratic Socialists of America; by the popularity of books like Capital to the Twenty-First Century, an 800-page tome on inequality published by French economist Thomas Piketty in 2013 that sold approximately 3 million hardcover copies in the United States and beyond; by the soaring reputations of left-leaning writer-activists (and anti-neoliberal crusaders) Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, and David Graeber; and by the sudden appearance in electoral politics of individuals who made a critique of free market capitalism—and the concentration of wealth and power that went with it—their signature message. Elizabeth Warren won election as a US senator from Massachusetts in 2012 by making attacks on the dominance and irresponsibility of America’s mega-banks the centerpiece of her campaign.

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Rodgers, Age of Fracture (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011). 10.Burgin, The Great Persuasion; Slobodian, Globalists; Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism; Offner, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy. See also Noam Chomsky, Profit over People: Neoliberalism and the Global Order (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999); Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2008); Daniel Stedman Jones, Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012). 11.This view is one that Eric Hobsbawm long advanced. See Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991 (New York: Vintage Books, 1994).

In Defense of Global Capitalism
by Johan Norberg
Published 1 Jan 2001

There are indeed abuses and scandals in some quarters, and resolute action is needed to prohibit them. Mostly, abuse and scandal happen in poor dictatorships, and so, instead of freedom having ‘‘gone too far,’’ it has not gained a foothold. In her book No Logo, which quickly became popular in anticapitalist circles, Canadian activist Naomi Klein claims that Western companies have created terrible working conditions in such zones. But she does not offer any proof. She has only heard a few rumors of bad conditions in one Philippine export-processing zone, which she admits having traveled to only because it was one of the worst. When the OECD tried to obtain an overall picture of these zones, it found that they had multiplied job opportunities for the poor, and that wages there were higher than in the rest of the country.

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The presence of multinational corporations in oppressive governments can very often be an aid to the pursuit of democracy, because those corporations are sensitive to pressure from Western consumers, which has a direct impact on sales. It can be easier to influence Nigerian politics by boycotting Shell than by trying to bring pressure to bear on the Nigerian government. This is hinted at in the subtitle of Naomi Klein’s book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Klein points out that the big corporations have tried to create a special positive aura for their trademarks through many decades of advertising and goodwill. But by doing so they have also shot themselves in the foot. The trademarks, being their biggest asset, are hugely sensitive to adverse publicity.

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‘‘Foreign Friends,’’ The Economist, January 8, 2000. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Survey of OECD Work on International Investment, Working Paper on International Investment (Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1998), http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M000013000/M00013315.pdf. 16. Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador USA, 2000). Klein finds it repugnant that firms exploit people’s need to belong, to share in a group identity. But if this is a basic need, then surely it is a good thing that an identity should be freely chosen from among a range of options, rather than merely inherited.

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia
Published 9 Feb 2021

Praise for Border and Rule “In Walia’s expert hands, the planet’s sprawling borderlands are exposed as capitalism’s gaping wounds, filled with escalating terror and torment as whiteness ferociously seeks to defend its imagined boundaries. This is a book of unsparing truth and dazzling ambition, providing readers with desperately needed intellectual ammunition to confront the inherent violence of borders. An enormous contribution to our movements.” —Naomi Klein, author of On Fire “I was haunted and agitated by this book which is part exposé and part clarion call for radical action. Harsha Walia offers an unsparing analysis of the violences of forced migration, borders, imperialism, and capitalism. The case studies presented in this book weave a quilt that provides us with needed knowledge to confront current problems that demand an organized collective response.

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Thank you to Anthony Arnove, Ashley Smith, Róisín Davis, Jim Plank, Charlotte Heltai, Ida Audeh, and everyone on the team who believed in this book. Nisha Bolsey, in particular, responded to all my rookie questions about publishing, and her warm encouragement despite my lack of academic or institutional affiliation, and generous flexibility with timelines and word counts, were pivotal in this book coming to fruition. Compañera Naomi Klein also offered invaluable guidance and advice. I am utterly thrilled and humbled that the genius of Robin Kelley, whose prolific scholarly work and uncompromising political commitment has been one of my foremost inspirations, is part of this book, and that Nick Estes, one of our generation’s most politically grounded and profound thinkers in this corner of the world, has offered an afterword.

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The IMF is a predatory loan shark forcing conditions of market liberalization and state austerity as preconditions to receiving a loan, and using debt as a disciplinary mechanism to reorganize economies into bordered sites of resource extraction and labor exploitation. The neoliberal and neocolonial imposition of these structural adjustment programs became known as “debt dictatorship,” with developing economies forced to accept severe austerity packages that stripped away social safety measures while increasing capitalist investment and trade tariffs. Naomi Klein summarizes this prescription of the Washington Consensus as “Want to save your country? Sell it off.”10 For the more than seventy countries across the Global South and former Eastern bloc trapped in these neoliberal programs, structural adjustment has been synonymous with increased interest rates, currency devaluation, elimination of state subsidies for domestic industries and essential services, deregulation, export-oriented markets, and swelling poverty rates.11 A mantra of neoliberal deregulation is the privatization of profit and socialization of risk.

Chokepoint Capitalism
by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
Published 26 Sep 2022

When Friedman’s acolytes bemoaned the impossibility of their task and the irrelevance of their movement, he would comfort them by reminding them that their mission was to create “ideas lying around” that could be picked up and pressed into service when a crisis arose.13 There will always be crises: even the best-run society is subject to exogenous shocks—pandemics, extreme weather, earthquakes, invasions. When crisis strikes, the order crumbles, and in a flash, ideas lying around can move from the fringe to the center. Naomi Klein calls this idea “the shock doctrine” and describes it as “one of Friedman’s most lasting strategic legacies.”14 Monopolists and monopsonists create their own crises as they extract ever more profit and opportunity, which they predictably wield to make things ever better for themselves, until there’s not enough left for everyone else.

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If we leave their funding entirely to the market, eventually they’ll no longer be possible, and important parts of human culture will be lost. A job guarantee for creative workers could help prevent that. There’s precedent for this: the US successfully responded to the Great Depression in the 1930s by creating millions of public jobs as part of Roosevelt’s New Deal. As Naomi Klein explains, this included meaningful work for “tens of thousands of painters, musicians, photographers, playwrights, filmmakers, actors, authors, and a huge array of craftspeople,” generating “an explosion of creativity and a staggering body of work,” including live music performances that reached 150 million people.27 A job guarantee would mean that the day you lose your employment you could pick up a new, dignified job—including whatever training that requires—until someone in the private sector decides to offer you a better one.

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Gabriel Winant, “No Going Back: the Power and Limits of the Anti-Monopolist Tradition,” Nation, Jan. 21, 2021, https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/goliath-monopoly-and-democracy-matt-stoller-review. 12. Carstensen, Competition Policy and the Control of Buyer Power, 139. 13. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962). 14. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Knopf, 2007), 7. 15. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 US 310 (2010). CHAPTER 13: TRANSPARENCY RIGHTS 1. Interview with Susan May, 2021. 2. Interview with Susan May, 2021. 3. The original post has been deleted but is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20200921135114/https://www.yaplex.com/blog/how-to-rent-books-with-audible. 4.

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
by Antony Loewenstein
Published 1 Sep 2015

“This is the only civilized solution,” he told the Observer newspaper.13 In 2014, even the world’s leading economic think-tank, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, urged higher taxes for the rich to help the bottom 40 percent of the population. When establishment magazine Foreign Policy publishes an article by the US managing editor of the Financial Times, Gillian Tett, which closes expressing a wish for an “honest debate” about “wealth redistribution,” it is clear that the world has gone a little mad.14 Canadian journalist Naomi Klein coined the term “disaster capitalism” in her best-selling 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, in which she observes that privatization, government deregulation, and deep cuts to social spending are often imposed after megadisasters, man-made or natural, “all before victims of war or natural disaster [are] able to regroup and stake their claims to what [is] theirs.”

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Industries such as mining, construction, and security feed off each other. It is a global gravy train—when one country is sucked dry, it moves off to the next lucrative destination. During a visit to Greece in 2013 to investigate the reality of extreme austerity and those workers resisting it, Canadian writer Naomi Klein issued a stark warning: “We really are in a midst of what I’ve come to think of as a final colonial pillage for the hardest to reach natural resources in some of the most beautiful protected parts of the world using some of the most dangerous and damaging extractive practices.”3 Nothing remains untouched.

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Louise Adler, Elisa Berg, Sally Heath, Paul Smitz, and Penelope White have all contributed hugely to the vision in your hands. I continue to be inspired by a range of journalists and groups whose work informs my own: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Pratap Chatterjee, Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman, the late and great Michael Hastings, Naomi Klein, Dahr Jamail, Chelsea Manning, George Monbiot, Greg Palast, John Pilger, Jeremy Scahill, Edward Snowden, and Matt Taibbi. Alison Martin is a truly unique woman who constantly challenges, provokes, and loves me. Her intelligence, insights, and warmth run through this book. Our life journey together is one of the best damn things to ever happen to me.

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
by Johann Hari
Published 1 Jan 2018

More Praise for Lost Connections ‘Wise, probing and deeply generous, Hari has produced a book packed with explosive revelations about our epidemic of despair. Yes, it is about depression but it is also about the way we live now – and the havoc perennial isolation is wrecking on our collective mental health and general wellbeing’ NAOMI KLEIN ‘An important, convention-challenging, provocative and supremely timely read. It is about time we looked at mental health through the prism of society rather than, simply, medicine. This brilliant book helps us do that’ MATT HAIG ‘A beautiful book from the person that brilliantly once said “the opposite of addiction is connection” and who now explores and offers some solutions to our disconnection’ JEMIMA KHAN ‘This is one of those extraordinary books that you want all your friends to read immediately – because the shift in world-view is so compelling and dramatic that you wonder how you’ll be able to have conversations with them otherwise.

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To be kept up to date on new developments in depression and anxiety, you can (a) Follow this book’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/thelostconnections (b) Follow Johann on Twitter: www.twitter.com/johannhari101 (c) Sign up to receive occasional e-mail updates at www.thelostconnections.com/updates Acknowledgments You can’t write a book like this without being helped by a huge number of people. I want to thank first of all Eve Ensler, who is not just an extraordinary friend and the best person to explore ideas with that you could hope for, but an inspiration for how to fight against injustice with joy rather than rage. In the same vein, I thank my friend Naomi Klein, who is the greatest model I know for how to think deeply about complex questions without diluting or betraying their complexity. The people I owe the greatest debt to, when it comes to this book, are the social scientists who conducted the research on which it is based, and who patiently answered all my questions and endless requests to see if I had really understood what they were saying.

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Mark Fisher talks about this interestingly in his excellent book Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Winchester, UK: O Books, 2009)—see pp. 18–20. You have to turn now to all the other wounded people around you, and find a way to connect with them This idea—that we need to come home—was influenced by Naomi Klein’s writing in This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (London: Penguin, 2015), and Avi Lewis’s film of the same name. 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The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink
by Michael Blanding
Published 14 Jun 2010

“It’s one thing when your stock drops 10 percent because of a mistake your company has made . . . but it’s something else . . . when it drops because of a business with totally different financial and social dy­ namics.” For the next four hours, he patiently explained why people might not pay for a Marlboro but they would pay for a Coke. And he was right. Coke’s stock righted itself in a few weeks. As Naomi Klein recounts in her book No Logo, the real lesson of “Marl­ boro Friday” was that companies needed to invest more money in brand­ ing, not less. The companies that succeeded after the recession of the early 1990s were those that wrapped consumers in their products, creating not just an association with their product but a complete lifestyle—think Star­ bucks, Disney, Apple, Calvin Klein, and Nike.

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Page 69 more than $4 billion in net income: Associated Press, “Coke CEO Aims at 2B Serv­ ings Daily,” March 3, 1998. Page 69 3,500 percent increase . . . $88 a share by 1998: Dean Foust, “Coke’s Man on the Spot,” BusinessWeek, May 3, 1999. Page 69 “We don’t know how”: Morris, “Roberto Goizueta and Jack Welch: The Wealth Builders.” Page 69 Coke’s annual spending on advertising: Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador, 1999), 471. Page 69 alienating many: Hays, 123–124; Pendergrast, 400. NOTES 3 10 Page 69 “move the needle”: Zyman, 3–5, 118, 172. Page 69 “The sole purpose of marketing”: Zyman, 11. Page 69 “spending to sell” . . . “we poured on more”: Zyman, 15.

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Page 69 The domestic ad budget rose: Klein, No Logo, 471. Page 70 It was Zyman’s job: Zyman, 138. Page 70 “These are the consumers”: Zyman, 125. Page 70 “dimensionalizing” . . . at every occasion: Zyman, 124, 129. Page 70 compete for Coke’s vast advertising war chest: Zyman, 207. Page 71 Hollywood powerhouse Creative Artists Agency: Naomi Klein, No Logo, 59. Page 71 computer-generated family of polar bears: Matthew Grimm, “Coke Plans to Put Its Polar Bears to Work,” Adweek, June 21, 1993; Dottie Enrico, “Coke’s Polar Bear Is a Papa Bear,” USA Today, December 8, 1994. Page 71 Philip Morris cut the price . . . death knell for the brand: Klein, No Logo, 12–13.

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
by Douglas Rushkoff
Published 1 Jun 2009

The more expensive war gets, the less is available for social services and infrastructure at home. The poorer people get, the more easily they can be persuaded that foreign enemies greedy for oil profits and obsessed with religious violence are the real problem. The daily toll of bodies begins to feel less relevant than the escalating price at the pump. As Naomi Klein amply demonstrated in her book on the extension of war profiteering to other industries, Disaster Capitalism, human life is no longer even a valid component of the global business plan. It’s not really part of the equation. While privatized war provides direct evidence of the way market forces working within particular institutional structures can end up promoting conflict, with all the human and material waste that this implies, Klein sees the same essential dynamic at play elsewhere.

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In the face of all this, the hippest way out is to adopt the attitude of amused and quizzical cynicism worn by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. Besides, no matter how critical of corporatism some entertainers and journalists might be, the impact of their arguments is undercut by their dependence on corporatized media for dissemination. Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart work for Viacom. Naomi Klein writes for a division of the German publisher Verlagsgruppe, and this book is published by a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. We all have mortgages to pay. Even most progressive journalism—just like the kind that emerged in the early 1900s—tends to frighten and isolate the middle classes rather than bring them out of their homes to improve their communities.

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Ari Wallach Felipe Ribeiro Andrew Mayer Fernando Cervantes Bernard Lietaer Armanda Lewis Howard Rheingold David Pescovitz John Merryman Jonathan Taylor Propaganda Lance Strate John Leland John Rogers Darren Sharp Jules Marshall Amy Sohn Christina Amini Jason Liszkiewicz Jeff Newelt Kevin Werbach Xeni Jardin Timothy Mohn Anaid Gomez-Ortigoza Matthew Burton Max Brockman Josh Klein Russel Weinberger Jeff Gordiner Helen Churko Getachew Mengistie Courtney Turco Justin Vogt Joost Raessens Nancy Hechinger Rachel Dretzen Benjamin Kirshbaum Barak Goodman Ken Miller Naomi Klein David Feuer Kate Norris and, most of all, Barbara and Mamie Rushkoff NOTES CHAPTER ONE Once Removed: The Corporate Life-Form 4 Most history books recount For the best descriptions of late Middle Ages and Renaissance life and commerce, see Fernand Braudel, The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992), and Carlo M.

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
by Grace Blakeley
Published 11 Mar 2024

In reality, this new approach to crisis management simply meant that powerful capitalists were able to reap all the benefits of booming financial markets, while being protected during the bust.120 Workers were the ones forced to bear the consequences in the form of unemployment, lower wages, and cuts to public services and social security.121 Naomi Klein’s account of disaster capitalism in The Shock Doctrine shows exactly how the most powerful firms and states often work together during moments of crisis to manage events in their interests.122 Nobody planned the financial crisis. But the response to that crisis was determined by a tight-knit network of financiers and politicians deciding among themselves who would be saved and who would be sacrificed.

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One of the first things the US government did with occupied Iraq was sell off state assets en masse.108 In doing so, the planners of the invasion sought to share its spoils with US businesses and to introduce the disciplining hand of American capital into Iraqi society. The next step was to introduce legislation that the Economist described as a “wish list that foreign investors dream of,” including capping the tax rate at 15 percent and allowing investors to take unlimited sums of money out of the country.109 Naomi Klein sees the invasion and occupation as a perfect example of the “shock doctrine” whereby crises and disasters—often caused by the parties involved—are used as a means to extract profit and embed capitalist social relations.110 Klein makes clear that the occupation of Iraq was planned. Iraq was chosen as a test bed for a process of imperial state-building designed to uproot an allegedly dysfunctional society and build a capitalist utopia in its place.

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As Chamayou argues, the neoliberal state “must continuously save capitalism from its self-destructive tendencies, but without ever affecting the fundamental economic relationships that determine them.” Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society. 119. Panitch and Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism. 120. Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society. 121. Panitch and Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism. 122. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (London: Penguin UK, 2008). CHAPTER 3: DISASTER CAPITALISM 1. Drew Dahl and William R. Emmons, “Was the Paycheck Protection Program Effective?,” Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, July 6, 2022, https://www.stlouisfed.org/en/publications/regional-economist/2022/jul/was-paycheck-protection-program-effective. 2.

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey
Published 14 Sep 2019

Rather, he highlighted the problem of profiteering and called for government action to make markets fair by holding merchants accountable for fraud and pillaging. He was a fierce critic of unregulated profiteering, just as influential voices on the left and the right today, from Naomi Klein to Andrew Bacevich, raise questions over corporate profiteering in war zones and elsewhere.20 Readers may doubt this (Naomi Klein and Adam Smith in the same breath?) but Smith’s argument is accessible to read in Wealth of Nations. Smith’s call for better government regulation largely failed in his lifetime, but gradually checks on corporate entitlements and laws against monopoly privileges helped to rein in some aspects of rent-seeking behaviour that Smith identified.

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‘Dianne Feinstein’s outrageous underestimate of civilian drone deaths’ (The Atlantic, February 11); E. Schweiger, 2015. ‘The risks of remaining silent: International law formation and the EU silence on drone killings.’ Global Affairs 1(3): 269–275. 16 Civilian death tolls are notoriously hard to determine in most wars, something that can contribute to ‘official forgetting,’ Naomi Klein’s term for strategies that obfuscate government wrongs. See No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics (London: Penguin, 2017), 195. See also Brian Rappert, How to Look Good in War (London: Pluto Press, 2012). 17 C. Crain, 2016. ‘The case against democracy’ (The New Yorker, November 7). 18 J.

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Published 1 Nov 2012

I’m sure the people who write such articles have read the same climate change reports I have and take them seriously. But their institutional role makes such positions a social or cultural necessity. They could make different decisions, but that would require real rethinking of the nature of our institutions. The propaganda barrage has been effective. As Naomi Klein writes in the Nation, “A 2007 Harris poll found that 71 percent of Americans believed that the continued burning of fossil fuels would cause the climate to change. By 2009 the figure had dropped to 51 percent. In June 2011 the number of Americans who agreed was down to 44 percent—well under half the population.

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See also Andrew Revkin, “High Odds of Hot Times,” New York Times, Dot Earth blog, 20 May 2009. See also David Chandler, “Climate Change Odds Much Worse than Thought,” MIT News, 19 May 2009. 32. Edward Luce, “America Is Entering a New Age of Plenty,” Financial Times (London), 20 November 2011. 33. Naomi Klein, “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” Nation, 28 November 2011. 34. Clifford Krauss and Jad Mouawad, “Oil Industry Backs Protests of Emissions Bill,” New York Times, 18 August 2009. 35. Davis Asman, Interview with Ron Paul, Fox Business, 4 November 2009. 7. Learning How to Discover 1. William James, The Principles of Psychology, vol. 1 (New York: Henry Holt, 1918), p. 488. 2.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
by Andreas Malm
Published 4 Jan 2021

McKibben, for his part … McKibben, ‘Foreword’, p. viii. p. 36. ‘a whole new wave of comparisons’ … Maxine Burkett, ‘Climate Disobedience’, Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 27 (2016), p. 2. p. 36. The roster of historical analogies begins with slavery … For this analogy, see e.g. ibid., pp. 19–23; Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (London: Penguin, 2014), pp. 6, 462–64; Andrew Winston, ‘The Climate Change Abolitionists’, Guardian, 27 February 2013; Chris Hayes, ‘The New Abolitionism’, Nation, 22 April 2014; Climate Home News, ‘Al Gore Likens Climate Movement to Suffrage and Abolition of Slavery’, climatechangenews.com, 20 June 2017; Ed Atkinson, ‘A Voice from Our History: The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act’, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, citizensclimatelobby.uk, 8 April 2018.

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Cf. e.g. the call for a moratorium ‘on investments in fossil fuel assets’ in Filip Johnsson, Jan Kjärstad and Johan Rootzén, ‘The Threat to Climate Change Mitigation Posed by the Abundance of Fossil Fuels’, Climate Policy 19 (2018), p. 269. p. 67. ‘If we can’t get a serious …’ McKibben, Falter, p. 222. McKibben here quotes Naomi Klein (without specific source). p. 68. on one estimate, the instant suspension … Pfeiffer et al., ‘Committed Emissions’. p. 68. ‘Sabotage’, writes … R. H. Lossin, ‘Sabotage as Environmental Activism’, Public Seminar, 3 July 2018, publicseminar.org. Cf. Jeff Diamanti and Mark Simpson, ‘Five Theses on Sabotage in the Shadow of Fossil Capital’, Radical Philosophy 2.2 (2018): 3–12.

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben
Published 15 Apr 2019

We need to speed up that rhythm, and done right, the fight against inequality meshes powerfully with the fight against more existential threats such as climate change. That’s why, at 350.org, we talk a great deal about “climate justice,” convinced that it’s both right and smart to work most closely with communities on the front lines of environmental damage. It’s why we’re excited by efforts such as the Poor People’s Campaign, or the Leap Manifesto that Naomi Klein produced with an assortment of labor unions and indigenous people. It’s all the same struggle. But for this book, the rapid rise in poverty and inequality will primarily serve as a marker of who we are right now and how we got here; what we care about; how we understand the world. And for those purposes, the most important part of this “we” is the people in power, either formal or informal, who have allowed this poverty and inequality to shoot up over the last four decades.

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(In Oklahoma, trespassing near “critical infrastructure facilities” now can get you ten years in prison.)4 The same is true around the world, from Duterte’s Philippines to Erdogan’s Turkey to Maduro’s Venezuela to Putin’s Russia, where protest is often lethal. But the oligarchs face a fight at every turn. As Naomi Klein has said, if we can’t get a serious carbon tax from a corrupted Congress, we can impose a de facto one with our bodies. And in so doing, we buy time for the renewables industry to expand—maybe even fast enough to catch up a little with the physics of global warming. I recount all this not to boast—as I say, we’re not winning, and in any event, I’m not much of a leader.

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I spend the most time with my colleagues at 350.org, of course, and it has been a great privilege to watch the young people who launched it grow into full adulthood—the weddings, and the birth announcements, are happy days on the calendar every year. To work with people whom one loves and admires is a great privilege. Day to day, my ace colleague Vanessa Arcara keeps me going. Naomi Klein, Jane Mayer, and Rebecca Solnit read this book in draft form; each of them has been instrumental in shaping my thinking over the years, and the world owes them great thanks for their reporting and writing. Marcy Darnovsky also brought her sharp eye to bear on the chapters about genetic engineering, for which I am very grateful.

Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia
by Becky Hogge , Damien Morris and Christopher Scally
Published 26 Jul 2011

It goes unsaid why this might be a good idea – the lightning talk is mostly to pitch the micro-electronics lab Mitch will be running in the basement throughout the congress. But I know why I like it. Every time I visit London there are more TVs. The latest ones coat the walls of the escalator halls in the capital’s most-used underground stations, making me long for the static paper ads I once found so intrusive. Naomi Klein writes about the corporate takeover of “public” space in her best-selling anti-globalisation polemic No Logo. Mitch Altman’s device is the logical (and slightly less risky) extension of the activities of urban guerrillas like Adbusters, who reclaim public space by making midnight alterations to the billboards of major brands in order to turn them into satirical art.

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If what’s interesting about internet freedom is this idea of creating digital public spaces where we can debate whatever issues are relevant. And if what’s exciting about internet freedom is that countries that don’t have conventional public spaces could now have digital public spaces, then we have to recognise, those aren’t public spaces. Those are private spaces; those are corporate-controlled spaces.” * * * In No Logo, Naomi Klein details exactly what’s wrong with the real-world emergence of pseudo-public space in corporate America: The conflation of shopping and entertainment found at the superstores and theme-park malls has created a vast grey area of pseudo-public private space. Politicians, police, social workers and even religious leaders all recognize that malls have become the modern town square.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh
Published 16 Jan 2018

So if it is the case that the last, but perhaps most intransigent way that climate change resists literary fiction lies ultimately in its resistance to language itself, then it would seem to follow that new, hybrid forms will emerge and the act of reading itself will change once again, as it has many times before. PART II HISTORY 1 In accounts of the history of the present climate crisis, capitalism is very often the pivot on which the narrative turns. I have no quarrel with this: as I see it, Naomi Klein and others are right to identify the currently dominant model of capitalism as one of the principal drivers of climate change. However, I believe that this narrative often overlooks an aspect of global warming that is of equal importance: empire and imperialism. While capitalism and empire are certainly dual aspects of a single reality, the relationship between them is not, and has never been, a simple one: in relation to global warming, I think it is demonstrably the case that the imperatives of capital and empire have often pushed in different directions, sometimes producing counter-intuitive results.

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Howe in ‘This Is Nature; This Is Un-Nature: Reading the Keeling Curve’, Environmental History 20, no. 2 (2015): 286–93, 290. 174 ‘implement their demands’: Ingolfur Blühdorn, ‘Sustaining the Unsustainable: Symbolic Politics and the Politics of Simulation’, Environmental Politics 16, no. 2 (2007): 251–75, 264–65. 174 First World War: Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy, loc. 2998. 175 ‘They only consume’: Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2015), Kindle edition, loc. 640. 175 ‘legislation and governance’: Ibid. 175 ‘the modern world’: Adam B. Seligman et al., Ritual and Its Consequences, loc. 171. 176 ‘mere representation’: Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, thesis 1. 176 ‘reestablishes its rule’: Ibid, thesis 18; my italics. 177 ‘moral issue’: Naomi Klein makes a powerful case for enframing climate change as a moral issue in her magisterial This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Knopf, 2014). See also the following interview with Michael Mann: http://paulharrisonline.blogspot.in/2015/07/michael-mann-on-climate-change.html. 178 opposite side: I am following here the use of the word sincerity in Adam B.

The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
by James Rickards
Published 15 Nov 2016

DocumentID=26851&ArticleID=35480, ix. UN project adviser Andrew Sheng: Xiao Geng and Andrew Sheng, “How to Finance Global Reflation,” Project Syndicate, April 25, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016, www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sdr-reserve-currency-fight-deflation-by-andrew-sheng-and-xiao-geng-2016-04. Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007). Shock doctrine is an ideal tool: Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies: Volume 1, The Spell of Plato, 157–59. the Open Society Foundations: Ibid. CHAPTER 3: DESERT CITY OF THE MIND “Keynes asked me what I was advising”: Somary, The Raven of Zurich, 146–47.

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Information sharing and global cooperation will leave corporations and wealthy individuals without shelter. Coordinated action in the form of global wealth extraction will displace the former practice of sovereign economic competition. Global power elites will share the spoils. The elite agenda is settled. Elites now await a new shock. The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein’s 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine, popularized a technique elites use to advance hidden agendas. Elites formulate plans for the world order they wish to see. They wait for an exogenous shock, a natural disaster or financial crisis, then use fear created by shock to advance their vision. New policy is presented to mitigate the fear.

Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business
by Ken Auletta
Published 4 Jun 2018

A 2016 study of Western Europe for the World Federation of Advertisers, based in Brussels, concluded that each euro spent on advertising equates to seven euros of economic value. Predicting the exact impact of advertising on consumer behavior is not an exact science—though this book will demonstrate that going forward data will yield better evidence—but by anyone’s measure, advertising and marketing packs a mighty economic wallop. Naomi Klein chose to measure the impact of advertising in a very different way. In her book No Logo,* first published in 2000, she portrayed advertising “as the most public face of a deeply faulty economic system” that promoted sweatshops to produce their often unhealthy products, and that propped up global companies that held sway over politicians to advance globalism, which exported jobs.

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Evidence of advertising fatigue is found in ad blockers and in Nielsen data that says half of those who watch TV shows they have recorded on their DVR devices skip past the ads. The anxiety of the advertising community is revealed in the gibberish or verbal smokescreens they now employ. Just before the millennium, advertisers began to refer to themselves as “brand stewards,” as if the brand had a soul. Nike, as an amused Naomi Klein observed, announced that its mission was to “enhance people’s lives through sports and fitness”; Polaroid said it was selling “a social lubricant,” not a camera; IBM was promoting “business solutions, not computers.” All this begs a fundamental question that comes up often in the advertising and marketing community: Are they sufficiently alarmed about the menace they face?

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As comfortable interrogating a network executive as he is interviewing a software genius or bottling a human tornado like Ted Turner, Auletta builds his media-technology books the way a mason builds a wall—upon a firm foundation, one brick at a time and as level as the horizon.” He and his wife live in Manhattan. What’s next on your reading list? Discover your next great read! * * * Get personalized book picks and up-to-date news about this author. Sign up now. * Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2000). * Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016). * Randall Rothenberg, Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994). * Bob Levenson, Bill Bernbach’s Book: A History of the Advertising That Changed the History of Advertising (New York: Villard Books, 1987)

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed With Alcohol
by Holly Glenn Whitaker
Published 9 Jan 2020

Gabor Maté on Illness and Addiction,” Truthout.org, June 1, 2013, https://truthout.org/audio/capitalism-makes-us-crazy-dr-gabor-mate-on-illness-and-addiction/; Alexander, Globalization of Addiction; D. Courtwright, The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019); Naomi Klein, “Johann Hari & Naomi Klein: Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?” Democracy Now, March 11, 2015, https://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/11/johann_hari_naomi_klein_does_capitalism. 321It’s Big Pharma: Robert Whitaker, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Philadelphia: Perseus, 2002); Robert Whitaker, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (New York: Broadway Books, 2010); Andrea Tone, The Age of Anxiety: A History of America’s Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers (Philadelphia: Basic Books, 2009); Szasz, Ceremonial Chemistry; Barry Meier, “Origins of an Epidemic: Purdue Pharma Knew Its Opioids Were Widely Abused,” New York Times, May 29, 2018; Chris McGreal, “Johnson & Johnson Faces Multibillion Opioids Lawsuit That Could Upend Big Pharma,” Guardian, June 23, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/22/johnson-and-johnson-opioids-crisis-lawsuit-latest-trial; Daniel Oberhaus, “Risky Drugs Are Being Marketed to People with Mental Health Issues,” Vice, August 15, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a33gbe/risky-drugs-are-being-marketed-to-people-with-mental-health-issues; Robert Whitaker, “The Downside of Meds,” Boston.com, May 10, 2010, http://archive.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/05/10/robert_whitaker_talks_about_the_downside_to_psychiatric_meds/. 321It’s a government: German Lopez, “The War on Drugs, Explained,” Vox, May 8, 2016, https://www.vox.com/2016/5/8/18089368/war-on-drugs-marijuana-cocaine-heroin-meth; Bushauna Freeman, “Government Spending on Drug Control: Are the Priorities Right?”

The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
by Ian Bremmer
Published 12 May 2010

Finally, for tribal, ethnic, or sectarian groups—whether Croats, Kurds, or Northern Ireland’s Catholics—achievement of an independent nation-state remains the most tangible form of universal recognition. The Multinational Menace No organization has been singled out as a threat to the nation-state more often or with more theatrical flair than the multinational corporation. In her 2000 book, No Logo, author Naomi Klein warned that “corporations have grown so big they have superseded government.”8 For a more colorful obituary of the nation-state, look back to one of the great American films of the 1970s. If you were around in 1976 to see Network when it was first released, you probably remember Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen, standing in a darkened corporate boardroom and thundering at Peter Finch’s disturbed and cowering network news anchor, Howard Beale:You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples.

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But none of these organizations has eroded the sovereign power of its member states. 7 The best recent reports on China’s system of censorship include Rebecca MacKinnon, “China’s Censorship 2.0: How Companies Censor Bloggers,” First Monday blog, vol. 14, no. 2-2 Feb. 2009; Race to the Bottom: Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship, Human Rights Watch, Aug. 2006; and Journey to the Heart of Internet Censorship, Reporters Without Borders, Oct. 2007. 8 Naomi Klein, No Logo (Toronto: Knopf, 1999), xxiii. 9 Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh, The Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Policy Studies, Dec. 2000), based on statistics from Forbes magazine. 10 Frances Maguire, “The New Masters of the Universe,” Banker, Jan. 2, 2006. 11 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), World Investment Report 2008: Transnational Corporations and the Infrastructure Challenge (New York/Geneva). 12 These critics had plenty of vivid stories to make their charges stick: Union Carbide’s chemical plant in Bhopal, India, which accidentally released tons of toxic gas in December 1984, killing several thousand people over a period of several years; the Exxon Valdez oil spill that badly damaged Alaska’s Prince William Sound in March 1989; the reported use of poorly paid and treated workers, and even child labor, in footwear factories producing shoes for Nike, Puma, Reebok, and Adidas in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Vietnam; Philip Morris’s allegedly aggressive marketing of carcinogenic cigarettes in developing countries; and the refusal of big pharmaceutical companies to allow patented HIV/AIDS drugs to be reproduced cheaply in the African countries that arguably needed them most.

Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
by Becky Bond and Zack Exley
Published 9 Nov 2016

That includes a great many who didn’t sign up for the political revolution this time around, which is good news: Our movements can learn how to go even bigger and broader. We can win—but only if we continue to develop the kinds of tactics, tools, and vision laid out in this vitally important book, perhaps the first to explore how to organize at the true scale of the crises we face.” —Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine “Climate activists around the world watched Bernie’s vibrant volunteer network with envy and wondered whether we, too, could build that level of engagement absent a candidate and national election. Bond and Exley answer that question: Yes, we can!

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The people running the nonprofits participating in the coalition are not going to support you when you try to blow everything up. They can’t because they are dependent on that money—and money almost always comes with at least one string attached: the one that says you can’t blow everything up. When it comes to climate change—as Naomi Klein brilliantly documented in her book This Changes Everything—some of the largest environmental groups and their supporting industry of consultants are deeply in the pockets of big corporations and their charitable arms. The plans they propose simply don’t call for change as fast as we need it. And in this case, gradual change means catastrophe.

The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
by Thomas Frank
Published 5 Aug 2008

Touch Wall Street and you’re dead. The longing for permanent victory over liberalism is not unique to the Anglo-Saxon world. In country after country, business elites have come up with ingenious ways to limit the public’s political choices. One of the most effective of these has been massive public debt. Naomi Klein, a journalist who has traveled the world documenting the great shift to the right, finds that in case after case, the burden of enormous debts—often piled up by dictatorships or other noxious regimes—forced democratic countries to accept a laissez-faire system that they otherwise found deeply distasteful.

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Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities (1904; reprint, New York: Sagamore Press, 1957), p. 4. Lincoln Steffens, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1931), p. 413. 30. “In one place on Earth, the theory would finally be put into practice in its most perfect and uncompromised form,” writes Naomi Klein. “A country of 25 million would not be rebuilt as it was before the war; it would be erased, disappeared. In its place would spring forth a gleaming showroom for laissez-faire economics, a utopia such as the world had never seen.” Klein, “Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in Pursuit of a Neocon Utopia,” Harper’s, September 2004.

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A revolution is not successful unless it succeeds in preserving itself.” Hart, The Third Generation, p. 158. 2. On breaking the cycle of nationalization and privatization, see John Burton, “Privatization: The Thatcher Case,” Managerial and Decision Economics, 8 (1987). On the privatization of housing, see Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), p. 135. Eradicating Labor Party socialism: Richard A. Melcher, “Thatcher’s Revolution: Act III,” Business Week, May 25, 1987. 3. The quotes cited here are drawn from the following essays, most of them available on the Web site of Americans for Tax Reform.

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Published 22 Apr 2013

A parallel authority was set up to resolve disputes: Ibid., see Discussion of the Cassation Commission, pages 28 and 30. But despite their good intentions: Ibid, 29–31. The Somali diaspora: France Lamy, “Mapping Towards Crisis Relief in the Horn of Africa,” Google Maps, August 12, 2011, http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/08/mapping-towards-crisis-relief-in-horn.html. The journalist Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007). hundreds of thousands were killed: “Paul Farmer Examines Haiti ‘After the Earthquake,’ ” NPR, July 12, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/07/12/137762573/paul-farmer-examines-haiti-after-the-earthquake.

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All it takes is a bit of creativity, plenty of bandwidth and the will to innovate. 1 These difficulties were compounded by the fact that the United States set up operational headquarters in Saddam Hussein’s former palaces, which had been turned into electronically shielded bunkers by the paranoid dictator. 2 We take these duties from a list of the ten functions of the state in the book Fixing Failed States, by Clare Lockhart and Ashraf Ghani, the founders of the Institute for State Effectiveness. 3 The journalist Naomi Klein famously called these actors “disaster capitalists” in her provocative book The Shock Doctrine. Klein argues that neo-liberal economics advocates seek to exploit a postcrisis environment to impose free-market ideals, usually to the detriment of the existing economic order. Like psychological shock therapy, this free-market fundamentalism uses the appearance of a “blank slate” to violently reshape the economic environment. 4 Estimates on the death toll of the Haitian earthquake vary widely.

The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility
by Robert Zubrin
Published 30 Apr 2019

Russ George, “We Can Bring Back Healthy Fish in Abundance Almost Everywhere,” personal website, http://russgeorge.net/2014/04/11/bring-back-fish-everywhere/ accessed November 17, 2018). 8. NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/giovanni_user_images#iron_bloom_northPac (accessed November 17, 2018). 9. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism against the Climate (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014); Naomi Klein, “Geoengineering: Testing the Waters,” New York Times, October 28, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/geoengineering-testing-the-waters.html?pagewanted=all (accessed January 25, 2019). 10. Margaret Munro, “Ocean Fertilization: ‘Rogue Climate Hacker’ Russ George Raises Storm of Controversy,” Vancouver Sun, October 18, 2012. 11.

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For example, Silvia Ribeiro, of the international environmental watchdog ETC group, objected to it on the basis that it might undermine the case for carbon rationing. “It is now more urgent than ever that governments unequivocally ban such open-air geoengineering experiments. They are a dangerous distraction providing governments and industry with an excuse to avoid reducing fossil fuel emissions.” Writing in the New York Times, Naomi Klein, the author of a book on “how the climate crisis can spur economic and political transformation,” said that “at first,…it felt like a miracle.”9 But then she was struck by a disturbing thought: If Mr. George's account of the mission is to be believed, his actions created an algae bloom in an area half of the size of Massachusetts that attracted a huge array of aquatic life, including whales that could be “counted by the score.”

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
by Johann Hari
Published 25 Jan 2022

In the U.S., in April 2020, the average citizen spent thirteen hours a day looking at a screen. The number of children looking at screens for more than six hours a day increased sixfold, and traffic to kids’ apps trebled. In this respect, Covid gave us a glimpse of the future we were already skidding toward. My friend Naomi Klein, a political writer who has made many strikingly accurate predictions about the future for twenty years, explained to me: “We were on a gradual slide into a world in which every one of our relationships was mediated by platforms and screens, and because of Covid, that gradual process went into hyper-speed.”

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My totally brilliant editors, Kevin Doughten at Crown and Alexis Kirschbaum at Bloomsbury, both made this a much better book, as did my agents, Natasha Fairweather at Rogers, Coleridge & White (RCW) in London, and Richard Pine at Inkwell in New York. Lydia Morgan at Crown also made really helpful suggestions that reshaped the text. Thanks also to Tristan Kendrick, Matthew Marland, Sam Coates, Laurence Laluyaux, Stephen Edwards, and Katharina Volckmer at RCW. Conversations with my friends Naomi Klein and V, formerly known as Eve Ensler, really transformed this book and I owe them a lot, for this, and for so much more. My friend Lizzie Davidson helped me to track down lots of the people I talked with, using her sinister NSA-like powers of detection. In Provincetown, I am really grateful to Andrew Sullivan, James Barraford, Dave Grossman, Stefan Piscitelli, Denise Gaylord, Chris Bodenner, Doug Belford, Pat Schultz, Jeff Peters, and everyone at Café Heaven.

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See digital detox unschooling, 256–61 V Valium, 218 Verbeck, Donna, 249, 251, 252 violence ADHD symptoms and, 173–79 current trends, 183, 242, 243, 248–49 Vitruvius, 205 “voodoo dolls,” 126–27 W waking drive, 75–76 Wall Street Journal, 164–65 waning light, 75–76 waste removal, during sleep, 71–72 web browsers, 119–21 website hack comparison, 266–67 white nationalists, 136–37 Wikipedia, 31 wildfires, 281–83 Williams, James on attention, 13–14 on attention crisis, 282 on change strategies, 170 on forms of attention, 265–67 on tech design, 105, 123, 140–41 “wired,” 16–17 women’s rights, culture shifts and, 166–68 work ethic, 246–48 work hours background, 185–86 change strategy for, 270 during Covid-19, 193 four-day week, 187–90, 192, 193, 273–74 personal identity and, 192 productivity and, 97–98, 184, 186–90 “right to disconnect,” 194–95 weekends and vacation time, 190–92 work stress, 184 X Xanax, 218 Y Yang, Andrew, 181 yoga, 36–37, 178, 270 YouGov, 171–72 young adults, 10, 68 YouTube algorithms and, 131, 135–37, 138–39 profile tracking through, 126 radicalization debate, 162–63 reinvented, 159–60 Z zoos, 218–20 Zuboff, Shoshana, 127, 156, 170 Zuckerberg, Mark, 33, 123, 147, 165 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z BY JOHANN HARI Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions ABOUT THE AUTHOR Johann Hari is a British writer who has authored two New York Times bestselling books, which have been translated into thirty-seven languages and praised by a broad range of people, from Oprah Winfrey to Noam Chomsky, from Elton John to Naomi Klein. His first book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film The United States vs. Billie Holiday—on which Hari served as executive producer—and a separate eight-part documentary series narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, entitled The Fix.

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
by Paul Jarvis
Published 1 Jan 2019

If done poorly, this practice can create problems ranging from low ethical standards and unfair wages to vast amounts of waste as a side effect of manufacturing. In the beginning of separating branding from production, large companies believed that great fortunes could be made by achieving the lowest common denominator in production, and in recent years that belief has been propelled by the forces of globalization. According to author and activist Naomi Klein, however, globalization has had negative effects on workers, including poor conditions, low salaries, and unfair treatment. Klein believes that a new movement, one very much in line with the mind-set of companies of one, is breaking away from global brands with questionable morals that focus on maximizing profits over people, and that this movement will shift businesses toward slower, smaller, or on-demand strategies, making them more “fair” in all senses of the word.

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Revealing and Addressing Commitment Drift in Business,” Harvard University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, July 21, 2014, https://ethics.harvard.edu/blog/does-your-company-keep-its-promises-revealing-and-addressing-commitment-drift. 8. Scalable Systems 127 low salaries, and unfair treatment: Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (New York: Haymarket Books, 2017), 113. 129 return on investment of 3,800 percent: Jordie van Rijn, “National Client Email Report 2015,” Data & Marketing Association, 2015, https://dma.org.uk/uploads/ckeditor/National-client-email-2015.pdf. 130 26 percent more likely to be opened: Campaign Monitor, “The New Rules of Email Marketing,” https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/guides/email-marketing-new-rules/. 130 segmented automation emails: “Q1 2017 Email Trends and Benchmarks Show Increase in Desktop Open Rates,” Epsilon, July 24, 2017, http://pressroom.epsilon.com/q1-2017-north-america-email-trends-and-benchmarks-show-increase-in-desktop-open-rates-2/,7,11. 9.

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
by Michiko Kakutani
Published 20 Feb 2024

After the 2008 global financial crisis—fueled by greed and subprime mortgages and lax regulation—the government and banks promised: never again. And yet, ten years later, Trump signed a law watering down Obama-era regulations, and in 2023 several banks imploded, raising fears, again, of larger weaknesses in the financial system. Danger and crisis, clearly, can shock people out of complacency—sort of an inversion of what Naomi Klein argued in her 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine. In that volume, she quoted the conservative economist Milton Friedman’s assertion that “only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change,” and she argued that his neoliberal followers had turned this into a veritable blueprint for using disasters and wars as opportunities to spread the gospel of free-market fundamentalism and to enrich corporations through privatization.

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GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Trump signed a law watering down: David Enrich, “Back-to-Back Bank Collapses Came After Deregulatory Push,” The New York Times, Mar. 13, 2023, nytimes.com/​2023/​03/​13/​business/​signature-silicon-valley-bank-dodd-frank-regulation.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “only a crisis—actual or perceived”: Naomi Klein, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2011), 174. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “foreign investors and international lenders”: Ibid., 9. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “malleable moments when we are psychologically unmoored”: Ibid., 25–26.

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
by William Easterly
Published 1 Mar 2006

He concludes: “De facto trusteeships, and especially shared sovereignty, would offer political leaders a better chance of bringing peace and prosperity to the populations of badly governed states.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appointed Stephen Krasner to be head of policy planning at the State Department on February 4, 2005. As Naomi Klein wrote in The Nation on May 2, 2005, the U.S. State Department has an interesting new office: On August 5, 2004, the White House created the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, headed by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual. Its mandate is to draw up elaborate “post-conflict” plans for up to twenty-five countries that are not, as of yet, in conflict….

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-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in 2003 drew up one of the most radical free-market reforms ever attempted anywhere. Stanford economist John McMillan likened it to the “big-bang” free-market programs that had failed in the ex-Communist countries. The Economist wrote in 2003 that the intention of the CPA for Iraq was to “abruptly transform its economy into a virtual free trade zone.2 Naomi Klein wrote in September 2004 in Harper’s magazine about the attempt to transform Iraq from the blank slate of post-invasion “Year Zero” into a “neocon utopia.” CPA chief Paul Bremer announced the layoffs of five hundred thousand soldiers and state workers, the privatization of two hundred state enterprises, no restrictions on foreign investment in the nonoil sector, minimal taxes, and no import tariffs.

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Krishnan, “Professor Kingsfield Goes to Delhi: American Academics, the Ford Foundation, and the Development of Legal Education in India,” William Mitchell College of Law Working Paper no. 3, March 2005. CHAPTER 9. INVADING THE POOR 1.Quoted in http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/USRA_Imperialism_Justify.htm. 2.John McMillan, “Avoid Hubris: And Other Lessons for Reformers,” Stanford University mimeograph, July 2004. 3.Naomi Klein, “Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in Pursuit of a Neocon Utopia,” Harper’s, September 2004. 4.Ferguson, Colossus, p. 300. 5.Stephen Kinzer, Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, New York: Penguin, 1991, p. 364. 6.Lynn Horton, Peasants in Arms: War and Peace in the Mountains of Nicaragua, Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1988, p. 166. 7.The quote is from a Reagan speech made in 1986. 8.World Bank, Country Assistance Strategy, 2002. 9.Kinzer, Blood of Brothers, p. 179. 10.Horton, Peasants in Arms, p. 201. 11.Kinzer, Blood of Brothers, pp. 144–45. 12.Robert Kagan, A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977–1990, New York: Free Press, 1996, pp. 210, 212. 13.Ibid., p. 218; Kinzer, Blood of Brothers, pp. 97–98 14.Horton, Peasants in Arms, pp. 233–35. 15.Ibid., pp. 267–69. 16.Ibid., pp. 281–82. 17.IMF, Article IV Report, February 2003, executive summary. 18.World Bank, Country Assistance Strategy, December 18, 2002. 19.Worth H.

A Paradise Built in Hell: Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit
Published 31 Aug 2010

Others turn to looting, pillaging, or other forms of selfish, exploitative behavior. The aftermath is widespread immorality, social conflict, and mental derangement.” Later, he described another stereotype: “that disasters render people a dazed and helpless mass completely dependent on outside aid for guidance and organization.” Those beliefs have yet to die. Naomi Klein’s 2007 book The Shock Doctrine is a trenchant investigation of how economic policies benefiting elites are thrust upon people in times of crisis. But it describes those people in all the old, unexamined terms and sees the aftermath of disaster as an opportunity for conquest from above rather than a contest of power whose outcome is sometimes populist or even revolutionary.

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If a revolution is a disaster—which many who oppose them would heartily endorse—it is so because a disaster is also a utopia of sorts; the two phenomena share aspects of solidarity, uncertainty, possibility, and the upending of the ordinary systems governing things—the rupture of the rules and the opening of many doors. Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine explores one side of the impact of disaster: the scramble for power on the side of the powerful, of authorities, institutions, and capitalism. It is a scramble because multiple parties or facets of society are contending for power and legitimacy, and sometimes the other side—the people, civil society, social justice—wins.

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People trample one another”: Charles Fritz, “Disaster,” in Contemporary Social Problems: An Introduction to the Sociology of Deviant Behavior and Social Disorganization, ed. Robert K. Merton and Robert A. Nisbet (New York: Harcourt, 1961), 672. 107 “these malleable moments, when we are psychologically unmoored and physically uprooted”: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), 21. 107 “profound disorientation, extreme fear and anxiety, and collective regression”: Ibid., 42. Klein is talking about the effects of the September 11, 2001, disaster on New Yorkers. 107 In a public talk: Sponsored by City Lights Books and held at the First Unitarian Church, San Francisco, September 26, 2007.

The Profiteers
by Sally Denton

Shultz neglected to disclose to his readers that he was a member of the board of directors of Bechtel, which was positioned to make billions of dollars in postwar reconstruction contracts. “Since his role was at arm’s length from the administration, he was able to whip up hysteria about the imminent danger posed by Saddam, entirely free from any burden of proof or fact,” wrote Naomi Klein, author of Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Nor were the riches now flowing limited to Iraq. Bechtel landed the contract to “remove the remains of the twin towers” after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. But the fact that Bechtel was also considered for the billion-dollar ground zero cleanup barely made the headlines.

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One of the deadliest hurricanes in American history, Katrina was the catastrophe that “Uncle Miltie,” as his powerful followers called the famous ninety-three-year-old economist, had been seeking for decades. In one of her groundbreaking and controversial books, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein described the free-market global economic strategy that the Friedmanites had been perfecting since the 1970s: “waiting for a major crisis, then selling off pieces of the state to private players while citizens were still reeling from the shock, then quickly making the ‘reforms’ permanent.” Katrina formed in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005, causing severe destruction in the Bahamas and along the Gulf Coast.

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“a secret supergovernment” . . . “fabrication” . . . “not to reveal details”: “The Koch-Weinberger Letters: An Exchange of Rejoinders on the Mideast,” New York Times, November 9, 1983. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: ULTIMATE INSIDERS “young pup” . . . “feet” . . . “cluster of geniuses”: Rumsfeld, quoted in Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007), 65. See also Klein, 611, n. 5. “preference for uniformed”: Morris, “Undertaker’s Tally” (Part 1). “After the Iranian”: St. Clair, “Bechtel, More Powerful Than the U.S. Army,” 7. “unpaid government employee” . . .

Adam Smith: Father of Economics
by Jesse Norman
Published 30 Jun 2018

For many on the right of politics, he is a founding figure of the modern era: the greatest of all economists, an eloquent advocate of the freedom of the individual and the staunch enemy of state intervention, in a world released from the utopian delusions of communism and socialism. For many on the left, he is something very different: the true source and origin of so-called market fundamentalism, author of ‘the textbook on contemporary capitalism’ according to the activist and writer Naomi Klein, the prime mover of a materialist ideology that is sweeping the world and corrupting real sources of human value, an apologist for wealth and inequality and human selfishness—and a misogynist to boot. One thing is certain, however: in an era in which economists and economics have become ever more influential, Adam Smith is regarded as by far the most influential economist who has ever lived.

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Miller, Liberty Fund [1777] 1987 TMS: The Theory of Moral Sentiments, ed. D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie, Liberty Fund [1759–90] 1982 WN: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, ed. R. H. Campbell, A. S. Skinner, and W. B. Todd, 2 vols., Liberty Fund [1776] 1981 INTRODUCTION ‘The textbook on contemporary capitalism’: from Naomi Klein, Sydney Peace Prize Lecture 2016, excerpted in The Nation, 14 November 2016. Smith is also deemed to be the origin of ‘Selfish Capitalism’ by the psychologist and writer Oliver James in his Selfish Capitalism, Random House 2008 Survey of economists: William L. Davis, Bob Figgins, David Hedengren and Daniel B.

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Cohen, Karl Marx’s Theory of History, Princeton University Press 1978 explores these issues in detail and with great clarity and sophistication Loss of institutions as a result of development of economic theory: see e.g. Peter Boettke, ‘Hayek’s Epistemic Liberalism’, Liberty Fund Review, September 2017. See also Murray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson, After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy, Princeton University Press 2009, Ch. 13 Critique of ‘neoliberalism’: see e.g. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, Penguin 2008, and Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future, Penguin 2015. For a vigorous defence and reclamation of the word ‘neoliberal’, see Madsen Pirie, The Neoliberal Mind: The Ideology of the Future, Adam Smith Institute 2017. For initiatives to create a more inclusive public understanding of capitalism, see the work of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, www.inc-cap.com Keynes and uncertainty: the fundamental impact of distinguishing uncertainty from risk and treating uncertainty as a radical part of nature is explored within Keynes’s work by Hyman P.

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker
Published 13 Feb 2018

Nordhaus, “Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong,” New York Review of Books, March 22, 2012; R. W. Cohen et al., “In the Climate Casino: An Exchange,” New York Review of Books, April 26, 2012. 51. Climate justice: Foreman 2013. 52. Klein vs. carbon tax: C. Komanoff, “Naomi Klein Is Wrong on the Policy That Could Change Everything,” Carbon Tax Center blog, https://www.carbontax.org/blog/2016/11/07/naomi-klein-is-wrong-on-the-policy-that-could-change-everything/; Koch brothers vs. carbon tax: C. Komanoff, “To the Left-Green Opponents of I-732: How Does It Feel?” Carbon Tax Center blog, https://www.carbontax.org/blog/2016/11/04/to-the-left-green-opponents-of-i-732-how-does-it-feel/.

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Since dealing with climate change will be a multidecade effort, there’s plenty of time to back off if temperature, sea level, and ocean acidity happily stop rising. Another response to climate change, from the far left, seems designed to vindicate the conspiracy theories of the far right. According to the “climate justice” movement popularized by the journalist Naomi Klein in her 2014 bestseller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, we should not treat the threat of climate change as a challenge to prevent climate change. No, we should treat it as an opportunity to abolish free markets, restructure the global economy, and remake our political system.51 In one of the more surreal episodes in the history of environmental politics, Klein joined the infamous David and Charles Koch, the billionaire oil industrialists and bankrollers of climate change denial, in helping to defeat a 2016 Washington state ballot initiative that would have implemented the country’s first carbon tax, the policy measure which almost every analyst endorses as a prerequisite to dealing with climate change.52 Why?

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Carbon Tax Center blog, https://www.carbontax.org/blog/2016/11/04/to-the-left-green-opponents-of-i-732-how-does-it-feel/. Economists’ statement on climate change: Arrow et al. 1997. Recent arguments for the carbon tax: “FAQs,” Carbon Tax Center blog, https://www.carbontax.org/faqs/. 53. “Naomi Klein on Why Low Oil Prices Could Be a Great Thing,” Grist, Feb. 9, 2015. 54. The problem with “climate justice” and “changing everything”: Foreman 2013; Shellenberger & Nordhaus 2013. 55. Scare tactics less effective than practical solutions: Braman et al. 2007; Feinberg & Willer 2011; Kahan, Jenkins-Smith, et al. 2012; O’Neill & Nicholson-Cole 2009; L. Sorantino, “Annenberg Study: Pope Francis’ Climate Change Encyclical Backfired Among Conservative Catholics,” Daily Pennsylvanian, Nov. 1, 2016, https://goo.gl/zUWXyk; T.

How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
by Peter Moskowitz
Published 7 Mar 2017

.… The key will be luring middle-class families into the rebuilt city, making it so attractive to them that they will move in, even knowing that their blocks will include a certain number of poor people. Given how the recovery has progressed these past ten years, it’s tempting to wonder if New Orleans politicians used Brooks’s column as a playbook. Katrina became the perfect opportunity for politicians to institute what author and activist Naomi Klein calls “shock doctrine capitalism,” using the chaos provided by the crisis to push through the reforms Brooks suggests: dismantling institutions that served the poor, and making the city more accommodating to an influx in capital. The result is a city that feels richer than before, but also unfriendly to those who do not fit into its new economy.

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Police also shot and killed two unarmed people: Associated Press, “New Orleans Police Officers Jailed over Katrina Shootings Get New Trial,” The Guardian, September 17, 2013. “These are some of the 40,000 extra troops”: “Military Due to Move in to New Orleans,” CNN.com, September 2, 2005. Before Katrina, the New Orleans public school system: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007), 6. “This is a tragedy”: Milton Friedman, “The Promise of Vouchers,” Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2005. Research from Tulane University: Adrienne Dixson, “Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter Schools,” in The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans, ed.

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
by Joseph Menn
Published 3 Jun 2019

“The Hong Kong Blondes claim to have found significant security holes within Chinese government computer networks, particularly systems related to satellite communications.” It would look awfully strange if cDc did not print its own scoop. Besides, Misha thought the piece might raise awareness, and he had been solidly behind media pranks in the past. He smoothed out Laird’s interview and published it on the cDc site. After the Wired News piece, Naomi Klein got in touch. The rising Canadian journalist saw the Toronto angle and was especially interested in China. Clinton had been working to normalize relations and de-emphasize human rights, and he had just conducted the first presidential visit to the nation since the Tiananmen massacre. “She thinks we’re this righteous politicized hacking machine out for world peace or somethin’.… Anyway, we’re gonna get a lot of miles outa this baby,” Laird wrote to the group.

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“As leader of the Hong Kong Blondes”: Arik Hesseldahl, “Hacking for Human Rights?,” Wired News, July 14, 1998, www.cultdeadcow.com/news/wired/19980714/. “Clinton had been working to normalize relations”: “President Clinton’s Visit to China in Context,” Human Rights Watch, n.d., www.hrw.org/legacy/campaigns/china-98/visit.htm. “Klein’s wide-eyed write-up”: Naomi Klein, “Computer Hacking New Tool of Political Activism,” Toronto Star, July 23, 1998, reprinted at www.cultdeadcow.com/news/newspapers/toronto_star72398.txt. Klein also wrote about the Blondes in her book No Logo, in which she explained that she had confirmed the legitimacy of the Laird-Wong interview with the “subject” of that piece.

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
by Bethany Moreton
Published 15 May 2009

To the contrary, it was an unstable compound, the 269 TO SERVE GOD AND WAL - M ART product in part of impressive agglomerations of power and money.21 But it was also the progeny of pragmatic responses to real needs, of idealistic hope in redemption, and of the elevation of serÂ�vice from its devalued position in the broader culture. The ideological work required to attach these human impulses to the market or contain them within a narrow defiÂ�niÂ�tion of the sacred was breathtaking. Surveying the free-market transitions imposed in places like postKatrina New Orleans and post-invasion Iraq, Naomi Klein rightly draws attention to what she terms “diÂ�sasÂ�ter capÂ�italism,” or “the orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events.”22 Quoting the free market’s most inÂ�fluÂ�enÂ�tial recent spokesman, she offers us Milton Friedman’s instructions for social change: “Only a crisis—acÂ�tual or perceived—,” wrote the Nobel Prize–winning economist in 1962, “produces real change.

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This summary of neoliberalism draws heavily on James Ferguson, “Introduction,” Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 1–23; Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New York: New Press, 2001); David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005); and Robert Kuttner, Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997). 3. Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60, History of Communication (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994); Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007); Kim Phillips-Fein, “Top-Down Revolution: Businessmen, Intellectuals, and Politicians Against the New Deal, 1945–1964,” Enterprise & Society (2006): 686–94; Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 312 NOTES TO PAGES 127 – 1 3 1 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

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See, for example, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–1960 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995); Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009); James K. Galbraith, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should, Too (New York: Free Press, 2008). 22. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), 6. 23. Milton Friedman, quoted in Klein, Shock Doctrine, 6. 24. Liza Featherstone, “Down and Out in Discount America,” The Nation, January 8, 2005, 11–15; Steven Greenhouse, “Workers at Pork Plant in North Carolina Vote to Â�Unionize After a 15-Year Fight,” NYT, December 13, 2008, A10; George Packer, “The Hardest Vote,” New Yorker, October 13, 2008; Michael Luo and Karen Ann Cullotta, “Even Workers Surprised by the Success of Factory Sit-In,” NYT, December 13, 2008, A9; Carolyn Crist, “Group Seeks Higher Wage,” Red and Black [University of Georgia], February 29, 2008; www.econjustice.org. 349 Acknowledgments It takes a village to write a book, and I only wish the virtual village I have depended on for this one could be gathered into a single small town, maybe in the Ozarks.

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Published 1 Jan 2004

The Truth about Bias and the News (New York: Basic Books, 2003); and Edward Herman, The Myth of the Liberal Media (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). 55 See David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen, Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (New York: Routledge, 1996). 56 For a description of the “social centers” in Italy, see Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (New York: Picador, 2002), 224-27. 57 For a useful summary of grievances across the world, see Samir Amin and François Houtart, eds., Mondialisation des résistences: L’état des luttes (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2002). 58 The literature on the 2000 U.S. presidential election is voluminous and growing.

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Clair, “Seattle Diary: It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas,” New Left Review, no. 238 (November-December 1999): 81-96. 80 See Mike Moore’s personal description of the successful path of the WTO from Seattle to Doha, A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). 81 The articles that Naomi Klein wrote as she traveled among the various globalization protest movements give a beautiful picture of their commonality and coherence. See Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (New York: Picador, 2002). 82 Social democrats (ever since the famous Bernstein debate) have insisted on the contradiction between reform and revolution, emphasizing the reasonableness of the former and the absurdity of the latter.

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Ronald Sousa (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), 3. 134 Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act 4, scene 3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It would be impossible here to thank all of those who helped us in the course of writing this book. We would like simply to acknowledge those who read the entire manuscript and gave us comments: Naomi Klein, Scott Moyers, Judith Revel, and Kathi Weeks. aA bricoleur is someone who constructs by piecing things together ad hoc, something like a handyman.

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity
by Douglas Rushkoff
Published 1 Mar 2016

“Housing starts” can accelerate only as fast as the market for new homes. When the marketplace isn’t being artificially goosed by speculators, humans just can’t keep up with the housing industry’s need for excuses to cut down more forests, irrigate more land, and construct more homes. Moreover, as Naomi Klein has more than demonstrated in her book This Changes Everything, climate change is a direct result of an expansionist economy: the physical environment can’t service the pace of capital while also sustaining human life.19 Economic philosopher John Stuart Mill identified this problem as far back as the 1800s.

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Ben Steverman, “Manipulate Me: The Booming Business in Behavioral Finance,” bloomberg.com, April 7, 2014. 17. Morgan House, “5 Alan Greenspan Quotes That Make You Wonder,” fool.com, October 15, 2008. 18. Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (New York, London: W. W. Norton, 2011). 19. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014). 20. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909), IV.6.2. 21. Ibid., IV.6.7. 22. David Dayen, “America’s Ugly Economic Truth: Why Austerity Is Generating Another Slowdown,” salon.com, October 21, 2014. 23.

After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine
by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor
Published 14 Jun 2012

There was my new friend, Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin, who had worked all her life on global political issues, but who grew up in a Zionist family and had long been held by that allegiance to say as little as possible about Israel. Horrified by Gaza, she had now thrown herself into the question and was doing more than anyone else to help the Gazans, defying the Israeli siege. Naomi Klein, the bestselling author, was also galvanised by Gaza. In an appearance on the West Bank after the onslaught, she had apologised to Palestinians for her “cowardice” in not being more forthright before. These women were pioneers, but the entire community was in tumult over the question of Zionism.

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He has written for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, the Guardian and Al Jazeera English and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. “Nothing will change until we are capable of imagining a radically different future. By bringing together many of the clearest and most ethical thinkers about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, this book gives us the intellectual tools we need to do just that. Courageous and exciting.” Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine To our parents, and the Palestinians and Israelis who deserve better First published 2012 by Saqi Books Copyright © Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor Copyright for individual texts rests with the authors ISBN 978-0-86356-816-9 eISBN 978-0-86356-839-8 All rights reserved.

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
by Ronald J. Deibert
Published 13 May 2013

Positive Technologies documented its findings in Yury Goltsev et al., SCADA Safety in Numbers, Positive Technologies, 2012, available at: www.​ptsecur​ity.co​m/do​wnload​/SCADA​_anal​ytics​_eng​lish.pdf. 15 “Cyberwar is very different from nuclear war …”: Fred Kaplan, “Why the United States Can’t Win a Cyberwar,” Slate, June 8, 2012, http​://ww​w.sl​ate.c​om/art​icles/​news_an​d_pol​itics/​war_st​ories/​2012/06/​obama​_s_​cyber_a​ttack​s_​on_i​ran_​wer​e_car​efully​_cons​idere​d_but​_the_​nucl​ear​_ar​ms_r​ace_​offer​s​_imp​ort​ant​_​lesso​ns​_.html. 12: THE INTERNET IS OFFICIALLY DEAD 1 The June 2011 RSA breach hit the American security: “Breachfest 2011” is documented in Matt Liebowitz, “2011 Set to Be Worst Year Ever for Security Breaches,” Tech News Daily, June 10, 2011, htt​p://www.techn​ewsdail​y.com​/271​0–20​11-wor​st-year-ev​er-secur​ity-brea​ches.html. 2 I first read about Narus’s technology: Narus’s 2007 press release is available at “Narus Expands Traffic Intelligence Solution to Webmail Targeting,” Narus, December 10, 2007, http​://www.nar​us.com/i​ndex.php​/overv​iew/n​arus-pr​ess-relea​ses/pr​ess-relea​ses-2​007/27​4-narus-exp​ands-traf​fic-intel​ligence-so​lution-t​o-webma​il-targe​ting. 3 its sales to Telecom Egypt: Timothy Karr discusses the use of Narus in Egypt in “One U.S. Corporation’s Role in Egypt’s Brutal Crackdown,” Huffington Post, January 28, 2011, http​://www.h​uffingto​n-pos​t.com/t​imothy-k​arr/one-u​s-corp​oration​s-role​-_​b_​815​281.html. 4 After thirty-three years of active service: In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein argues that Kenneth Minihan is responsible for implementing the “disaster capitalism complex,” defined as “a fully fledged new economy in homeland security, privatised war and disaster reconstruction tasked with nothing less than building and running a privatised security state, both at home and abroad.”

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Similarly, in his book Spies for Hire, investigative journalist Tim Shorrock traces the subservience of public to private interests in the intelligence-contracting industry, an industry that specifically “serves the needs of government and its intelligence apparatus.” Shorrock writes, “In the past, Minihan said, contractors ‘used to support military operations; now we participate [in them]. We’re inextricably tied to the success of their operations.’ ” Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007); and Tim Shorrock, Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008). 13: A ZERO DAY NO MORE 1 In the aftermath of the 2011 revolution: The chaos that followed the collapse of regimes in Egypt and Libya helped pry open secretive security apparatuses, revealing the extent of their international linkages.

No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
by Jane F. McAlevey
Published 14 Apr 2016

Ramirez and Potter devoted 2007 to making a handheld amateur video about the school closings, going around the city interviewing teachers, parents, and kids. By late 2007, these teachers had formed a citywide study group on the closings, inviting other teachers to join through informal activist networks.28 The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE) Forms Evolving out of the study group, whose first collective read in 2008 was Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine,29 two more important groups were developed: the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE), inside of the Chicago Teachers Union, and soon after that the Grassroots Education Movement (GEM), a CORE-inspired coalition created with community-based organizations to fight school closings, gentrification, and racism.30 The Shock Doctrine had just been published, and Klein was shaping an analysis about mass school closures, capitalism, and racism.

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New York City has yet to recover from this ugly moment in the teachers’ union history. 14.Sue Garza and George Schmidt, author interviews, September 2014. 15.Robert Michels, Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchic Tendencies of Modern Democracies, New York, NY: The Free Press, softcover edition, 1968. 16.George Schmidt, author interview, February 2015. 17.Illinois State General Assembly, Chicago School Reform Amendatory Act, Public Act 89-0015, 1995. 18.Although the idea was set up in the Amendatory Act, it would take one more year and some specific enabling legislation before the first charter schools opened in Illinois. 19.Illinois State General Assembly, ibid. 20.George Schmidt, author interview, October 2014. 21.http://www2.ed.gov/news/staff/bios/duncan.html. 22.CPS Stats & Facts, produced annually by the Chicago public schools. 23.Tracy Dell Angela, “South Side Faces School Shake Up,” Chicago Tribune, July 14, 2004. 24.The schools could also be “independent contract” schools or small schools, which, like charters, were placed outside the union’s purview. 25.Maureen Kelleher, “Rocky Start for Renaissance 2010,” Catalyst Chicago, October 1, 2004. 26.Angela Stich, “School Spirit,” NewCity Chicago blog, November 22, 2004. 27.Amisha Patel of the Grassroots Collaborative and Madeline Talbot, longtime leader of the Chicago branch of ACORN, author interviews, September and October, 2014. 28.Alexander Bradbury, Mark Brenner, Jenny Brown, Jane Slaughter, and Samantha Winslow, How to Jump-Start Your Union: Lessons from the Chicago Teachers, Detroit: Labor Notes, 2014. 29.Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, New York: Picador, a division of Henry Holt Books, 2007. 30.GEM’s initial community partners included KOCO, the Pilsen Alliance, Blocks Together, Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE), Designs for Change, Teachers for Social Justice, and a mix of random Local Schools Council (LSC) activists.

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
by Matt Mason

When graffiti irritated subway commuters, the authorities ripped out an entire train fleet and threw it in the sea. But the negative side effects of advertising are being largely ignored. Ads are messing with our heads. “The underlying message is that culture is something that happens to you,” says Naomi Klein in No Logo. “You buy it at the Virgin Megastore or Toys ‘R’ Us and rent it at Blockbuster Video. It is not something in which you participate, or to which you have the right to respond.” But for advertising's evil twin, graffiti, responding is a specialty. The Bubble Bursts We've become inundated by a daily onslaught of ads, and street artists are taking notice.

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Jennifer Scott, Heidi D’Agostino, “Beyond Stereotypes,” findings of the 2005 Dove Global study, Dove Campaign For Real Beauty, February 2006. http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/DoveBeyondStereotypesWhitePaper.pdf. American Psychological Association, “Television Advertising Leads to Unhealthy Habits in Children; Says Apa Task Force,” February 23, 2004. http://www.apa.org/releases/childrenads.html. Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2000), p. 178. Donella H. Meadows, “The Global Citizen,” Alertnet.org, May 15, 2000. http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article=vn8491asned. Kalle Lasn, interview by author, May 24, 2006 (other quotes from Lasn that appear throughout this chapter are taken from the same interview).

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
by Sarah Kendzior
Published 6 Apr 2020

Its transnational nature and reliance on non–state actors who can use digital media to override borders—Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is a prime example—means it lacks true historic precedent. Climate change is another factor that makes our current crisis distinct from any other. It is doubtful that this group of roving criminals and kleptocrats are the climate skeptics they purport to be. It is far more likely that they are, as Naomi Klein phrases it, “disaster capitalists” who see opportunity in a dying planet, and who will spare no expense in pursuit of their own preservation.16 Throughout this book, I describe how digital media has transformed state repression and citizen protest, and how globalization allowed organized crime to proliferate on an unparalleled scale.

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Sarah Kendzior, “Welcome to Donald Trump’s America,” Foreign Policy, August 3, 2016, https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/03/welcome-to-donald-trumps-america/. 15.   Sarah Kendzior, “Be Afraid: Trump May Have Bought the Fourth Estate,” Globe and Mail, September 9, 2016, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/be-afraid-trump-may-have-bought-the-fourth-estate/article31789981/. 16.   Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007). 17.   Sarah Kendzior, “We Are Heading Into Dark Times—This Is How to Be Your Own Light,” De Correspondent, November 18, 2016, https://thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-heading-into-dark-times-this-is-how-to-be-your-own-light-in-the-age-of-trump/1611114266432-e23ea1a6. 18.   

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore
Published 16 Oct 2017

An embarrassing list of people have read or heard slices of the book and shared how it might be improved. Deep thanks, then, to Kolya Abramsky, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Jun Borras, Zoe Brent, Chris Brooke, Harry Cleaver, Josephine Crawley-Quinn, Silvia Federici, Harriet Friedmann, Leland Glenna, Sam Grey, Shalmali Guttal, Friede Habermann, Naomi Klein, William Lacy, Phil McMichael, Daniel Moshenberg, Joe Quirk, Jackie Roth, Olivier De Schutter, Daniel Bowman Simon, John Vandermeer, and Ken Wilson for their time and wisdom. Jason: My thanks go first to my always gracious and ever insightful coauthor, Raj, for his vision that world-ecology’s relevance extends far beyond the university—and that it needs this book to do that.

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We aren’t sanguine about the future either, given polling data from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago which found that 35 percent of baby boomers feel blacks are lazier/less hardworking than whites and that 31 percent of millennials feel the same way.123 While maintaining a healthy pessimism of the intellect, we find optimism of the will through the work of organizations that see far more mutability in social relations. Many of these groups are already tackling cheap things. Unions want higher wages. Climate change activists want to revalue our relationship to energy, and those who’ve read Naomi Klein’s work will recognize that much more must change too.124 Food campaigners want to change what we eat and how we grow it so that everyone eats well. Domestic-worker organizers want society to recognize the work done in homes and care facilities. The Occupy movement wants debt to be canceled and those threatened with foreclosure and exclusion allowed to remain in their homes.

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
by Paul Gilding
Published 28 Mar 2011

The 1980s also saw the spectacular growth of environmental organizations around the world and strong campaigning against corporate pollution, with individual companies targeted rather than just a general push for regulation. This was the birth of campaigns targeting brands, with activists deliberately using a company’s focus on its brand as a point of vulnerability, as they did with Nike over sweatshops. Writer Naomi Klein noted: “Brand image, the source of so much corporate wealth, is also, it turns out, the corporate Achilles’ heel.”13 The more a company is a brand image, the more vulnerable it becomes to activist campaigns targeting that image. This was also the era when the seriousness of fighting for environmental protection came into sharp focus, with the murder of a Greenpeace activist by a Western government.

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Available online at http://www.csiro.au/files/files/plje.pdf. 11. Ingrid Eckerman, The Bhopal Saga—Causes and Consequences of the World’s Largest Industrial Disaster (India: Universities Press, 2005). 12. I first heard of this phrase in 1999 when used by John Passacantando, then of Ozone Action and later of Greenpeace. 13. Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, 2002), 343. CHAPTER 3: A VERY BIG PROBLEM 1. Principle 15, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992. Available online at http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm. 2. Article 2, Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1992. Available online at http://unfcc.int. 3.

Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives
by Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez
Published 5 Jan 2010

As the various stimulus bills made their way through Congress in 2009 with the urgent prompt of the economic crisis, it was hardly surprising, then, that the government targeted much of the money to “shovelready” projects, which were most often roads and bridges—infrastructure for the car system. This is an example of what Naomi Klein has called “disaster capitalism,” the phenomenon in which companies garner their most massive profits in extreme or crisis conditions such as wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and housing price collapses.29 While most people saw the crisis of 2008 as comeuppance for the car industry (and it certainly was unpleasant for the tens of thousands of laid-off auto workers), it in fact helped the car industry—both directly through bailout money and indirectly (and more importantly) through massive new road and road repair subsidies that will help sustain the car system far into the future.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin, “As Political Winds Shift, Detroit Charts New Course,” New York Times, May 20, 2009. By 1969, 600,000 people were working in local, state, and federal governments exclusively on the planning, maintaining, and repairing of roads. James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s ManMade Landscape (New York: Free Press, 1993). Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007). Surface Transportation Policy Project, “The $300 Billion Question: Are We Buying a Better Transportation System?” January 2003. www.transact.org/report.asp?id=223. CHAPTER 2 1. 2. 3. While the Mercedes sponsorship should lead us to take this claim with a grain of salt, 36 percent of a random sample of Americans with cars who were surveyed said they loved their cars.

Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following
by Gabrielle Bluestone
Published 5 Apr 2021

So that’s another flex for her too, where she can be like, ‘I got these, Nike gave these to me,’ because Nike is known for being very stingy with product seeding,” Sakany said. Put simply, Nike is now aspirational. Where once they sold sneakers, now they sell a lifestyle. “Nike isn’t a running shoe company,”183 writer Naomi Klein wrote in the tenth-anniversary edition of No Logo. “It is about the idea of transcendence through sports.”184 But if a shoe drops and nobody’s promoted it on social media, can you really call it cool? It’s exactly what the Fyre Festival capitalized on, using four hundred famous so-called Fyrestarters to whip up excitement about something that never existed.

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q=%22%E2%80%9CIf+the+therapeutic+function+of+freedom%22. 180.Terry Carter Jr., "Here are All the Celebrities Who Were Lucky Enough to Get an Ivy Park x Adidas Box From Beyoncé," BuzzFeed, January 17, 2020, www.buzzfeed.com/terrycarter/beyonce-sent-celebrities-ivy-park-x-adidas-boxes. 181.Joan Summers, "Kim Kardashian Swears She Didn’t Mail Herself a Giant Orange Ivy Park Gift Box," Jezebel, January 29, 2020, https://jezebel.com/kim-kardashian-swears-she-didnt-mail-herself-a-giant-or-1841326278. 182.Meagan Fredette, "Kim Kardashian Finally Received Her Orange Ivy Park Box," Revelist, January 29, 2020, www.revelist.com/style-news/kim-kardashian-ivy-park/17162. 183.Jessica Jacolbe, "On Brands’ Bad Social Media," JSTOR, July 27, 2019, https://daily.jstor.org/on-brands-bad-social-media/. 184.Naomi Klein, "No Logo at 10," The Baffler, Vol. 2, No. 1 [18], pp. 30-39, 2010, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43307610?seq=1. 185.Emily Gosling, "Fyre Festival Designer Oren Aks Opens Up, Reveals Unused Designs + Bizarre Text Convos," AIGA, April 2, 2019, https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/fyre-festival-designer-oren-aks-opens-up-reveals-unused-designs-bizarre-text-convos/. 186.Aleks Eror, "What David Shapiro’s ‘Supremacist’ Teaches Us About Supreme Fuccbois," Highsnobiety, June 16, 2016, https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/david-shapiro-supremacist/. 187.Tom Peters, "The Brand Called You, Fast Company," Fast Company, August, 31, 1997, www.fastcompany.com/28905/brand-called-you. 188.Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, February 16, 2018), Page: 175.

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
by Noam Chomsky and Laray Polk
Published 29 Apr 2013

With the publication of 9/11 in November 2001, inarguably one of the most significant books on the subject, he became as widely read and as an essential a voice internationally as other political philosophers throughout history. That book, like the present volume, was composed from interviews. Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs, and US foreign policy. In 2010 Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Michael Hardt, Naomi Klein, and Vandana Shiva became signatories to United for Global Democracy, a manifesto created by the international Occupy movement. Laray Polk was born in Oklahoma in 1961 and currently lives in Dallas, Texas. She is a multimedia artist and writer. Her articles and investigative reports have appeared in the Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, and In These Times.

Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia
by Ray Taras
Published 15 Dec 2009

In the case of the enlarged EU, a hierarchy based on a division of labor seems to have unfolded. Eastern Europe’s part in transnationalism has been construed by antiglobalization and nationalist critics as primarily economic in nature: the region serves as a sweatshop for western member states. This is a provocative claim to make. According to Naomi Klein, “Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic are the postmodern serfs, providing low-wage labor for the factories where clothes, electronics, and cars are produced for 20–25 per cent of the cost of making them in Western Europe.” This is a cheap-labor substitution economy. As she asked about the 74 Chapter 3 EU, “How do you stay open to business and closed to people?

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See Craig Calhoun, “The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism,” South Atlantic Quarterly 101, no. 4 (2002). For a different perspective, see Seyla Benhabib, Another Cosmopolitanism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). 51. Calhoun, “The Class Consciousness,” 872–73. 52. Calhoun, “The Class Consciousness,” 885. 53. Hedetoft, The Global Turn, 5. 54. Naomi Klein, “The Rise of the Fortress Continent,” The Nation, February 3, 2003. Metacultural Presumptions of European Elites 81 55. Angela Merkel (speech at at the official ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome, March 25, 2007), www.eu2007.de/ en/News/Speeches_Interviews/March/0325BKBerliner.html. 56.

Freedom
by Daniel Suarez
Published 17 Dec 2009

The razorback nearest Boerner raised one sword, and Boerner hung his leather jacket upon it. He rolled up his shirtsleeves and grinned at The Major. "I do so enjoy my vork. . . ." Further Reading You can learn more about the technologies and themes explored in Freedom through the following books: Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Penguin Press The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein, Metropolitan Books When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce, Beacon Press The Shadow Factory by James Bamford, Doubleday When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten, Kumarian Press & Berrett-Koehler Publishers The Transparent Society by David Brin, Basic Books Wired for War by P. W.

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Williams, Portfolio Brave New War by John Robb, John Wiley & Sons Acknowledgments This book was quite a journey. Dramatizing the sweeping socio-economic and technological transformation of civilization required a little research. I'd like to extend my profound gratitude to: James Bamford, David Brin, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis, Deborah Koons Garcia, Lawrence Goodwyn, Naomi Klein, David C. Korten, Fred Pearce, Michael Pollan, John Robb, and P. W. Singer whose published works informed this story in ways both great and small. The research and innovations of the following groups and institutions also aided greatly in the creation of this book: the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, the people and State of Iowa, and the Ames Research Center.

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics
by Peter Geoghegan
Published 2 Jan 2020

Months before the referendum, Crispin Odey, Peter Cruddas and over a hundred City executives signed an open letter that called for a slashing of red tape and radical divergence from EU standards after a Brexit vote. That massive political shocks can be used to push through radical economic change is well documented. Canadian writer Naomi Klein calls it “disaster capitalism”.73 After the Brexit vote, the language of disaster was often used by British politicians and commentators, although often in a positive sense, as an opportunity for collective renewal through suffering. Forgotten in the evocations of Dunkirk and the Blitz were the spivs of the 1940s who made a fortune on the black market.

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, Guardian, November 2015. 70 Caroline Wheeler and Rosamund Urwin, ‘Boris Johnson’s donor Crispin Odey eyes Brexit jackpot with £300m bet against British firms’, The Times, August 2019. 71 Stefan Boscia, ‘Conservatives break election donations record while unions turn on the taps for Labour’, City A.M., November 2019. 72 Seth Thévoz and Peter Geoghegan, ‘Revealed: Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding’, openDemocracy, November 2019. 73 Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (London, 2008). 74 William Davies, ‘England’s rentier alliance is driving support for a no-deal Brexit’, New Statesman, August 2019. 75 Ashley Cowburn, ‘Jacob Rees-Mogg’s investment firm opens second Ireland fund but insists it “has nothing to do with Brexit”’, Independent, July 2018. 76 David Edgerton, ‘Brexit is a necessary crisis – it reveals Britain’s true place in the world’, Guardian, October 2019. 77 Matthew Elliott and James Kanagasooriam, ‘Public opinion in the post-Brexit era: Economic attitudes in modern Britain’, Legatum Institute, October 2017.

Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das
Published 14 Oct 2011

In every crisis, policy makers argue that people’s life savings and pension entitlements are at risk if the system is not bailed out. No one asks who put them at risk in the first place. Bankers’ excuses are of someone having murdered their parents seeking clemency on the grounds that he is an orphan. The social activist Naomi Klein termed it disaster capitalism.15 Having unknowingly underwritten a system allowing banks to generate vast private profits, ordinary men and women were forced to bear the cost of bailing out banks. As his friend Dink tells author Joe Bageant: “Sounds like a piss-poor solution to me, cause they’re just throwing money we ain’t got at the big dogs who already got plenty.

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Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, Speech to the CBI Dinner (20 January 2009), East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham. 14. Senator Jim Bunning, Statement to the Senate Banking Committee on the Federal Reserve Monetary Policy Report (15 July 2008), Senate Banking Committee. 15. Naomi Klein (2008) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Picador, New York. 16. Joe Bageant (2007) Deer Hunting with Jesus: Despatches from America’s Class War, Scribe Publications, Melbourne: viii. 17. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1973) The Great Gatsby, Penguin Books, London: 186. 18. Quoted in Charles P.

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John Kay (2004) The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations Are Rich But Most Remain Poor, Penguin Books, London. John Kay (2009) The Long and the Short of It: Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Are Not in the Industry, Erasmus, London. Charles P. Kindelberger (1978) Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crisis, Basic Books, New York. Naomi Klein (2008) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Picador, New York. Jonathan A. Knee (2007) The Accidental Investment Banker, John Wiley, Chichester. Richard C. Koo (2008) The Holy Grail of Macro Economics: Lessons from Japan’s Great Recession, John Wiley, Singapore. Jesse Kornbluth (1992) Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken, William Morrow & Co.

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski
Published 24 Jun 2013

It may be the case that even those who feel they have a good working knowledge of political theory need to revisit the entire question of neoliberalism, if only to better focus upon the incongruity of the neoliberals coming out of the crisis stronger than when they were paving the way for its onset. It is one thing to glibly appeal to a nefarious “Shock Doctrine” (see Naomi Klein), it is another to comprehend in detail how the reckoning was evaded: something here dubbed the “Shock Block Doctrine.” Neoliberalism is alive and well; those on the receiving end need to know why. Questions as to its existence, its efficacy, and its vulnerability to refutation lie at the heart of the concerns that motivate this chapter.

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These suggest a degree of coherence and stability deriving from both continuity of intellectual tradition and persistence of community boundary work, the sum total of which is capable of supporting analytical generalizations about the movement. Clearly, neoliberals do not navigate with a fixed static Utopia as the astrolabe for all their political strivings. They could not, since they don’t even agree on such basic terms as “market” and “freedom” in all respects, as we shall observe below. One can even agree with Brenner et al. and Naomi Klein that crisis is the preferred field of action for neoliberals, since that offers more latitude for introduction of bold experimental ‘reforms’ that only precipitate further crises down the road.68 Nevertheless, Neoliberalism does not dissolve into a gormless empiricism or random pragmatism. There persists a certain logic to the way it approaches crises; and that is directly relevant to comprehending its unexpected strength in the current global crisis.

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Latter-day followers of Galbraith bring various counterexamples to the table, such as the recent policy to suppress cigarette advertising in the United States, but to no avail.86 Curiously enough, given that it bulks so large in everyday life, the average person still ardently believes that all that expenditure and all that effort to manage their desires is essentially impotent, and by implication, wasted. Neoliberals, as one might expect, have come to concoct a much more plausible justification of the phenomenon. They have carefully read and absorbed their leftist critics, from Thorstein Veblen to Naomi Klein, and far from rejecting them outright, they openly use their ideas to render the process of persuasion both more unconscious and more effective.87 Neoliberals have pioneered the signal innovation of importing the double-truth character of their project into the everyday lives of the common man.

The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim
Published 5 Mar 2013

, the notion of a resurgent elite further strengthening its hold on government is very much alive. In 2008, days after the massive US bank bailout was announced and a few short weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the rescue of the insurance giant American International Group (AIG), the critic Naomi Klein described the era as “a revolt of the elites . . . and an incredibly successful one.” She argued that both the long neglect of financial regulation and the sudden bailout reflected elite control over policy. And she suggested that a common trend in the concentration of power linked together major countries with seemingly opposed political and economic systems.

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Eisenhower’s speech is available online at http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html. 29. Domhoff, Who Rules America? Challenges to Corporate and Class Dominance. 30. Christopher Lasch, “The Revolt of the Elites: Have They Canceled Their Allegiance to America?” Harper’s, November 1994. 31. Klein’s talk is available online at http://fora.tv/2008/10/20/Naomi_Klein_and_Joseph_Stiglitz_on_Economic_Power#fullprogram. 32. Simon Johnson, “The Quiet Coup,” Atlantic, May 2009, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/. See also Johnson and Kwak, 13 Bankers. CHAPTER FOUR 1. Interview with Javier Solana, Washington, DC, May 2012. 2.

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson
Published 13 Nov 2007

Yet it is far from clear that American legislators are ready to take on the liabilities implied by a further extension of public insurance. Total non-insured damages arising from hurricanes in 2005 are likely to end up costing the federal government at least $109 billion in post-disaster assistance and $8 billion in tax relief, nearly three times the estimated insurance losses.6 According to Naomi Klein, this is symptomatic of a dysfunctional ‘Disaster Capitalism Complex’, which generates private profits for some, but leaves taxpayers to foot the true costs of catastrophe.7 In the face of such ruinous bills, what is the right way to proceed? When insurance fails, is the only alternative, in effect, to nationalize all natural disasters - creating a huge open-ended liability for governments?

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Scruggs, ‘Hurricane Katrina: Issues and Observations’, American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Judicial Symposium, ‘Insurance and Risk Allocation in America: Economics, Law and Regulation’, Georgetown Law Center, 20-22 September 2006. 4 Details from http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/PublicSafety/Hurricane_Katrina_Recovery.shtml, http://katrina.louisiana.gov/index. html and http://www.ldi.state.la.us/HurricaneKatrina.htm. 5 Peter Lattman, ‘Plaintiffs Laywer Scruggs is Indicted on Bribery Charges’, Wall Street Journal, 29 November 2007; Ashby Jones and Paulo Prada, ‘Richard Scruggs Pleads Guilty’, ibid., 15 March 2008. 6 King, ‘Hurricane Katrina’, p. 4. 7 Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York, 2007). 8 http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml. 9 John Schwartz, ‘One Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans is Still at Risk’, New York Times, 17 August 2007. 10 Michael Lewis, ‘In Nature’s Casino’, New York Times Magazine, 26 August 2007. 11 National Safety Council, ‘What are the Odds of Dying?’

What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way
by Nick Cohen
Published 15 Jul 2015

This was not just the view of one little-read academic reviewing the work of another. Foucault himself argued that liberal democracy was the worst form of tyranny. The Enlightenment that Westerners imagined had freed them had in fact enslaved them in insidious ways that Westerners were too stupid to see – with the exception of French philosophers. In Naomi Klein’s No Logo, the best-selling leftish book of the millennium, modern ‘capitalism’ was an almost supernatural force. ‘In ways both insidious and overt,’ she wrote, ‘this corporate obsession with brand identity is waging a war on public and individual space: on public institutions such as schools, on youthful identities, on the concept of nationality and on the possibilities for unmarketed space.’

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Scott Armstrong, ‘Unintelligible Management Research and Academic Prestige’, Interfaces, vol. 10, no. 2, April 1980, pp. 80–6. 99 ‘No one denies the need’ Denis Dutton, ‘Language Crimes: A Lesson in How Not to Write, Courtesy of the Professoriate’, Wall Street Journal, 5 February 1999. 100 ‘artificially difficult style’ Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin (eds), Critical Terms for Literary Study, 2nd edn, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 101 ‘Ah – so that’s it’ Ophelia Benson, ‘Bad Writing’, butterfliesandwheels.com 102 ‘Narayan’s preoccupations with’ Azfar Hussain, Review of Uma Narayan, Dis/locating Cultures/Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism, 1997, Rocky Mountain E-Review, vol. 54, no. 2, Fall 2000. 103 ‘would be exceedingly…Yes’ Robert Conquest: Reflections on a Ravaged Century, London: John Murray, 1999, pp. 9–11. 106 ‘There is no such’ Quoted in Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, p. 287. 107 ‘an Islamic movement’ Wesley Yang, ‘The Philosopher and the Ayatollah’, Boston Globe, 12 June 2005. 109 ‘In ways both’ Naomi Klein, ‘Introduction’, in No Logo, London: Flamingo, 2000. 110 ‘Disneyland is presented’ Quoted in Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason, p. 305. 111 ‘In Butler, resistance’ Martha Nussbaum, ‘The Professor of Parody’, New Republic, 22 February 1999. 114 ‘The ideas of’ J. M. Keynes, ‘Concluding Notes’, in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, London: Macmillan & Co., 1936. 115 ‘wrong to force’ Simon Blackburn, ‘The Lie of the Land’, Financial Times, 28 July 2006. 117 who ‘demonised’ Mugabe John Vidal, ‘Monster of the Moment’, Guardian, 1 July 2005. 119 ‘They operate on’ John Lloyd, The Protest Ethic, London: Demos, 2001, p. 11. 125 ‘Its cloying self-regard’ Ian McEwan, Saturday’, London: Jonathan Cape, 2005, p. 72.

This Land: The Struggle for the Left
by Owen Jones
Published 23 Sep 2020

Their placards and banners summed it up: ‘Our Resistance Is As Global As Their Capital’; ‘Say No To The WTO’; and most enduringly – in a defiant, desperately hopeful rejection of capitalist realism – ‘Another World Is Possible’. These movements were diffuse and disconnected and, without the ability to build a coherent alternative to the established order, their moment soon passed. Nonetheless, they revealed a deep well of discontent with the established order, and new radical voices – Naomi Klein’s No Logo, a cri de coeur against modern consumer capitalism, became the defining book of a generation – found a mass audience. These movements were, in retrospect, the first concerted attempt to throw off the suffocating blanket of market triumphalism. Then came the atrocity of 9/11. In the following months and years, the anti-capitalist movement was knocked off course.

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He began his journalistic career editing the radical Straight Left magazine and, even as British and global politics shifted right, stayed true to his beliefs. A stint as the Guardian’s labour correspondent in the 1990s deepened his already strong trade union links, and his appointment as comment editor in 2001 provoked furious consternation among New Labour-aligned columnists. According to iconic Canadian writer Naomi Klein, the paper’s comment section under Seumas Milne became a ‘truly global debating forum’, with even Conservative politician Daniel Hannan lauding him for taking ‘full advantage of the Guardian’s comment pages’ and ‘making them the most thought-provoking opinion in Britain’. For me, as a teenager growing up in a suffocating political environment – the age of ‘The End of History’ – Milne was, along with other dissenting writers such as Gary Younge and Klein, a political life raft, a rare example of someone who used their media platform to challenge vociferously the prevailing political consensus.

Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist
by Alex Zevin
Published 12 Nov 2019

See ‘The Case for Globalisation’, 23 September 2000. 49.‘Pro Logo: The Case for Brands’, 8 September 2001; Naomi Klein, 15 September 2001. ‘Pro Logo’ argued that brands were a blessing, ensuring quality, convenience, choice and consumer protection and accountability. And people liked them. A letter from Klein appeared the next week. But this was buried in the issue of 15 September 2001. The next time she merited a verbal flogging, she had been demoted to a small column in the business section where the level of threat she now posed was indicated by the title, ‘Face Value: Why Naomi Klein Needs to Grow Up’, 9 November 2002. 50.‘Americans without Bank Accounts: Into the Fold’, 6 May 2006.

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These would ‘not give that Indian child a better life’, and ‘tying trade to rules that forbid her from working will not help her either: that way lies greater poverty, not a better education.’48 In a sign of how concerned Crook and other editors were about the growth of anti-globalization sentiment in these years (a fact obscured by what came after), on 11 September 2001 – the day two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in Manhattan – the Economist on newsstands had nothing to do with Middle Eastern terrorists. In red, white and black, the cover read ‘Pro Logo’, and savaged the Canadian activist Naomi Klein for her ‘utterly wrong-headed’ No Logo (1999), the best-selling ‘bible of the anti-globalisation movement’.49 For his part, Emmott spied untrammelled vistas for financial innovation until the end. In his last signed piece in 2006, he hailed US banks for entering sectors served only by payday lenders and pawnbrokers.

What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth
by Chris Goodall
Published 30 Jan 2020

The UK-based economist looks at how countries can best allocate capital towards projects that improve low carbon infrastructure. Jonathan Ford in the Financial Times summarised Pettifor’s conclusions by saying that ‘she sees the nation state as eminently capable of financing decarbonisation’. Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal (Allen Lane, 2019). Klein brings a transatlantic perspective and a more radical emphasis on changing the very structure of our economies. She argues that conventional capitalism is incapable of dealing with the threat from climate breakdown. In this book I have tried to argue for a more moderate stance, not because of any faith in the ethical standards of corporations, but rather a conviction that rapid growth of zero carbon alternatives depends on the managerial and innovation skills of conventional large companies.

Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor
by John Kay
Published 24 May 2004

Development required the simultaneous establishment of a shoe factory, a clothing factory, a bicycle factory. Shoe workers could use their income to buy clothes and bicycles, and bicycle workers would buy shoes. A planning agency could coordinate this simultaneous development. Fifty years later, anticapitalist journalist and author Naomi Klein visited a shoe factory in the Philippines. 11 She did not find it a pleasant experience, and no sensitive person from a rich state would. Most employees of the factory were young women, daughters of peasant families. They worked long hours under tight discipline for low wages, living in small dormitories shared by four or six people.

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Workers and managers stole from the plant. The Morogoro plant was designed like a modern Western shoe factory, with aluminium walls and no ventilation system, inappropriate for the Tanzanian climate. The Morogoro shoe factory never operated at more than 5% of capacity and never exported a single shoe. It closed in 1990. Naomi Klein did not need to go to the Philippines to see the unpleasantness of early-stage industrialization. She could have read accounts of conditions in English factories during the industrial revolution, or Korean economic development in the 1950s. What she saw Culture and Prosperity { 281} in the Philippines was Rostow's "takeoff" as it had been in England and Korea.

Vanishing New York
by Jeremiah Moss
Published 19 May 2017

The ideology crystallized in the 1990s, and by the dawn of the twenty-first century it had become a fait accompli of globalized life, largely unquestioned, barely visible, and resistant to critique. It has become the air we breathe. Both Democrat and Republican, neoliberals believe in the unfettered free market, deregulation, privatization, reduction in government, and trickle-down economics. They often deny that this powerful system even exists. As Naomi Klein points out in The Shock Doctrine, “the ideology is a shape-shifter, forever changing its name and switching identities.” Call it free-market fundamentalism, globalization, free trade, laissez-faire, it’s all neoliberalism. Its followers will tell you that its effects are natural and inevitable.

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The people of New York, frightened and traumatized, put their trust in Giuliani’s judgment, allowing themselves to be convinced that only a billionaire CEO could dig Wall Street from the rubble, captivate the tourists, and avoid social chaos. New York, we were told, was in danger of going back to the “bad old days” of the 1970s. People were scared. In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein reveals the way neoliberal politicians and economists exploit crisis to force their agenda. She speaks to the national impact of 9/11 when she says, “What happened in the period of mass disorientation after the attacks was, in retrospect, a domestic form of economic shock therapy.” I would add that nowhere was that mass disorientation more profound than in New York City.

Collaborative Futures
by Mike Linksvayer , Michael Mandiberg and Mushon Zer-Aviv
Published 24 Aug 2010

Now we see a new model emerge—a distributed networked collaboration of interested individuals contributing digital labor, not just money. The political vacuum presented by these natural or man made crises leave room for a strong active force that o en enforces a new political and economic reality. In her book titled The Shock Doctrine, author Naomi Klein describes how governments and businesses have exploited instances of political and economic instabilities in recent decades to dictate a neo-liberal agenda. In each case the interested powers were the first on the scene, imposing rigid rules of engagement and coordination, and justifying enforcement by the need to restore order. 101 In contrast, the activists are providing the tools and the know how for data production and aggregation.

Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
by Steven Johnson
Published 14 Jul 2012

Emergence was not explicitly a political book, but I included the Seattle protests on the last pages as a nod toward a future in which social change would increasingly be shaped by these leaderless networks. I was not alone in sensing a meaningful connection between the Seattle protesters and the decentralized peer networks of the digital age. Writing in The Nation at the time, Naomi Klein had observed, “What emerged on the streets of Seattle and Washington was an activist model that mirrors the organic, interlinked pathways of the Internet.” It seemed clear to some of us at that early stage that the model of information sharing that the Internet had popularized was too potent and protean not to spawn offline organizational structures that emulated its core qualities.

The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Banks
by Ann Pettifor
Published 27 Mar 2017

G8 politicians, led by Britain’s Gordon Brown, at first co-operated at an international level to stabilise the system. That co-operation and an internationally co-ordinated stimulus quickly evaporated. Worldwide, politicians and policy-makers fell back on, or were once more talked into, orthodox policies for stabilisation, most notably fiscal consolidation. As Naomi Klein had warned, many in the finance sector quickly understood the crisis as an opportunity to reinforce the global financial system’s grip on elected governments and markets. After some hesitation they jumped at this opportunity, in contrast to much of the Left, or the social democratic parties. No fundamental changes were made to the international financial architecture.

Where We Are: The State of Britain Now
by Roger Scruton
Published 16 Nov 2017

The anonymity of the global economy goes hand in hand with a certain spectral quality – a sense that the agents behind every transaction are not creatures of flesh and blood who live in communities but discarnate corporations, who take no real responsibility for producing what they sell but who merely stick their brand on it, so claiming a rent on producer and consumer alike. It is difficult to articulate this complaint, though it has been made, with varying degrees of sarcasm, by a century of writers from Thorstein Veblen to Naomi Klein – the argument advancing step by step in order to accommodate the latest move towards anonymity. This economy is not dislocated, as the nineteenth-century socialists imagined, but unlocated. Yet it is for this very reason that it troubles us. Economic activity has become detached from the building of communities.

Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough
by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss
Published 31 May 2005

Indeed, Western culture can be described as a marketing culture and, as we will see, the advent of the marketing society is strongly correlated with the rise in depression, anxiety, obesity and a range of other disorders. The marketing culture is indispensable to the daily spread of affluenza. In her book No Logo, Naomi Klein describes the process whereby producers of consumer goods progressively offload all aspects of the actual manufacturing process by contracting out, especially to factories in the Third World. They concentrate their efforts on creating and sustaining the intangible features of consumer products that give them most of their value, that is, the brand.

On Palestine
by Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé and Frank Barat
Published 18 Mar 2015

Reading and feeling enlightened by those books really played a big part in changing my vision of life and what it was supposed to mean. I started with reading Chomsky and slowly became very interested in anything that had to do with Israel/Palestine. Reading Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, John Berger, Tanya Reinhart, Ilan Pappé, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein . . . all became part of my daily routine. Books changed me and I think that they are, more than anything else, one of the best tools we can use to learn, reflect on, and truly understand the world we are living in. They are a bridge between languages, continents, and people. A book will accompany you and will stay with you, it will mark you like nothing else.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff
Published 15 Jan 2019

See Larry Diamond, “Facing Up to the Democratic Recession,” Journal of Democracy 26, no. 1 (2015): 141–55, https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2015.0009. 63. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007); Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (London: Verso, 2010); Wendy Brown, Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005); Gerald F. Davis, Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-shaped America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). 64. Immanuel Wallerstein et al., Does Capitalism Have a Future? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (London: Verso, 2010); Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015); Wendy Brown, Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005); Davis, Managed by the Markets; Wolfgang Streeck, “On the Dismal Future of Capitalism,” Socio-Economic Review 14, no. 1 (2016): 164–70; Craig Calhoun, “The Future of Capitalism,” Socio-Economic Review 14, no. 1 (2016): 171–76; Polly Toynbee, “Unfettered Capitalism Eats Itself,” Socio-Economic Review 14, no. 1 (2016): 176–79; Amitai Etzioni, “The Next Industrial Revolution Calls for a Different Economic System,” Socio-Economic Review 14, no. 1 (2016): 179–83. 65.

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With tremendous lucidity and moral courage, Zuboff demonstrates not only how our minds are being mined for data but also how they are being rapidly and radically changed in the process. The hour is late and much has been lost already—but as we learn in these indispensable pages, there is still hope for emancipation.” —Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and No Logo, and Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University “Zuboff is a strikingly original voice, simultaneously bold and wise, eloquent and passionate, learned and accessible. Read this book to understand the inner workings of today’s digital capitalism, its threats to twenty-first-century society, and the reforms we must make for a better tomorrow.”

Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle
by Jamie Woodcock
Published 17 Jun 2019

Our authors include Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Rebecca Solnit, Angela Y. Davis, Howard Zinn, Amy Goodman, Wallace Shawn, Mike Davis, Winona LaDuke, Ilan Pappé, Richard Wolff, Dave Zirin, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Nick Turse, Dahr Jamail, David Barsamian, Elizabeth Laird, Amira Hass, Mark Steel, Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein, and Neil Davidson. We are also the trade publishers of the acclaimed Historical Materialism Book Series and of Dispatch Books.

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg
Published 14 Feb 2023

Mann / Atmospheric Science at Penn State, IPCC contributor, and author of many books, including The New Climate War. 5.13 A Genuine Emergency Response Seth Klein / Team lead with the Climate Emergency Unit and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. 5.14 Lessons from the Pandemic David Wallace-Wells / New York Times Opinion writer and magazine columnist.Author of The Uninhabitable Earth. 5.15 ‘Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice’ / Greta Thunberg 5.16 A Just Transition Naomi Klein / Journalist and bestselling author; UBC Professor of Climate Justice and Co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice at the University of British Columbia. 5.17 What Does Equity Mean to You Nicki Becker / Law student and climate justice activist from Argentina.Co-founder of Jovenes por el Clima; active in Fridays For Future MAPA.

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It means taking full responsibility for historical emissions. It means that polluters pay. It means including all our actual emissions in our statistics, including consumption, imports, exports, shipping, aviation, military and biogenic emissions. It means honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice. / 5.16 A Just Transition Naomi Klein Most of us have learned to think about political change in defined compartments: environment in one box; inequality in another; racial and gender justice in a couple more. Education over here. Health over there. And within each compartment, there are thousands upon thousands of different groups and organizations, often competing with one another for credit, name recognition and, of course, resources.

The Internet Is a Playground
by David Thorne
Published 24 Mar 2010

Regards, David From: Roz Knorr Date: Wednesday 14 October 2009 11:16 a.m. To: David Thorne Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Adelaide loser You wouldn’t know the first thing about charity or giving back to the community. People from Adelaide don’t do anything for the underprivileged in society. Go read Naomi Klein’s 1999 book “No Logo” and join the ant-globalist movement & start defacing corporate posters in public places with political statements, or visit a sweat shop with 7 year olds in Mexico & blog about it. Until then you are just another selfish parasite taking from this planet. Watch your back. I leave for New York in my private plain this afternoon so I don’t have any time for anymore of your pathetic hick town nonsense.

Minimal: How to Simplify Your Life and Live Sustainably
by Madeleine Olivia
Published 9 Jan 2020

Resources For more information on all the topics discussed in this book find me online: Madeleine Olivia www.madeleineolivia.co.uk @MadeleineOlivia DOCUMENTARIES Before the Flood www.beforetheflood.com Chasing Coral www.chasingcoral.com @chasingcoral Cowspiracy www.cowspiracy.com @cowspiracy Earthlings www.nationearth.com @EarthlingsMovie An Inconvenient Truth www.algore.com @algore Minimalism: A Documentary www.theminimalists.com @TheMinimalists The Need to Grow grow.foodrevolution.org @TheNeedToGrow Our Planet www.ourplanet.com @ourplanet A Plastic Ocean www.aplasticocean.movie The True Cost www.truecostmovie.com @truecostmovie BOOKS Michael Braungart and William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Vintage, 2009) Martin Dorey, No. More. Plastic (Ebury Press, 2018) Kathryn Kellogg, 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste (Countryman Press, 2019) Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate (Penguin Books, 2015) Elizabeth Kolbert, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2015) Mary Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Vermilion, 2014) Grey McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Virgin Books, 2014) Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Penguin Books, 2009) Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (Penguin Books, 2011) Lucy Siegle, To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill
Published 22 Apr 2013

Michael Ratner and Karen Ranucci have been so generous in their support and with their love for so many years. Thank you also to the great Michael Moore for giving me one of my first “real” jobs and for always supporting my work. Oliver Stone and John Cusack have offered support, encouragement and wisdom at key moments. My dear friend Naomi Klein has always been there for me through good times and bad. She and Avi Lewis are a great force for justice. Anamaria Segura and Phil Tisne have brightened my life. Muchas gracias also to Jorge and Clemencia Segura for all of their love and support. Wallace Segura is a scholar among scholars. Emma Kelton-Lewis and Daniel Avery have been tremendously generous in their personal support, as have Claire and Rennie Alba.

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Allen, Principal,” Chertoff Group, accessed October 5, 2012, http://chertoffgroup.com/bios/charles-allen.php. 18 “happy to pull the trigger”: 9/11 Commission Report, p. 211. 18 September 4 meeting: Ibid., p. 213. 18 three years to implement: Ibid. 18 “‘broad covert action program’”: Ibid., p. 214. 18 “Only a crisis”: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 40th anniv. ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), Preface, 1982, p. xiv. 18 mentored Rumsfeld: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007), p. 14. 18 Cheney, sought his counsel: Nina Easton, “Why Is Dick Cheney Smiling?” Money.CNN.com, November 25, 2007. 19 “When that crisis occurs”: Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, Preface, 1982, p. xiv. 19 “a new Pearl Harbor”: “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” p. 51. 19 “duty to use his bully pulpit”: Feith, War and Decision, p. 51. 19 “all necessary and appropriate force”: Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Those Responsible for the Recent Attacks Launched Against the United States, Pub.

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Paul Bremer III, with Malcolm McConnell, My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope (New York: Threshold Editions, 2006), pp. 6–7. 111 “paramount authority figure”: Ibid., p. 2. 111 brainchild: Ibid., p. 37. Bremer describes Defense Secretary Rumsfeld as giving him his “marching orders” to proceed with de-Baathification, with Feith doing the groundwork. 111 “Order 1”: Naomi Klein, “Baghdad Year Zero,” Harper’s, September 2004. 111 “450,000 enemies”: David Rieff, “Blueprint for a Mess,” New York Times Magazine, November 2, 2003. 111 “We are going to fight them”: Transcript, Interview with L. Paul Bremer III, Breakfast with Frost, BBC, June 29, 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/3029904.stm. 111 “My fellow Americans”: Transcript, “Remarks by the President from the USS Abraham Lincoln,” May 1, 2003. 111 were killed: Ann Scott Tyson, “Anatomy of the Raid on Hussein’s Sons,” Christian Science Monitor, July 24, 2003. 111 “the phrase ‘guerrilla war’”: Transcript, “DoD News Briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen.

Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals: How Drug Companies Plan to Profit From Female Sexual Dysfunction
by Ray Moynihan and Barbara Mintzes
Published 1 Oct 2010

Bizarre as it may sound, the idea that a drug company would play a role in ‘disease development’ is backed up by observations from another industry insider, this one with expertise in the practice known as ‘condition branding’.2 The advertising expert Vince Parry famously revealed how drug companies are sometimes involved in ‘fostering the creation’ of medical disorders, giving a little known condition renewed attention, helping redefine or rename an old disease, or sometimes assisting in the creation of a whole new one. The branding expert has said that as part of his high-level work for drug companies he will sit down with medical experts to try to ‘create new ideas about illness and conditions’. As the Canadian writer Naomi Klein told us in her classic No Logo, corporations are no longer just selling products, they are selling brands, and brands are about lifestyles and concepts, not commodities.3 These revelations about drug company plans to accelerate the development of a disease, in order to test and sell drugs for it, herald the opening of a new chapter in the story of the modern medical marketplace, where the corporate sector now works together with leading medical experts to help tell us who’s sick and who’s in need of the industry’s latest cures.

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away
by Doug Henwood
Published 9 May 2005

It's easy to see how even privately held assets of that more conventional sort can contribute to social wealth; unless they belong to a bomb factory, their produce can make people better off (even if the profits they generate are appropriated by a handful of managers and shareholders). But a "brand," as Naomi Klein (1999, p. 22) put it in No Logo, is a kind of "collective hallucination." Branders put a positive spin on these mass delusions. Ad agency Young & Rubicam identified them as "the new reH-gion," a source of "meaning" (Tomkins 2001). Today's brand builders, said Y&R, "could be compared to the missionaries who spread Christianity and Islam around the world."

The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy
by Tyler Cowen
Published 25 May 2010

The association of diversity with national boundaries or with regional geography is built into a great deal of the contemporary discussion of globalization, both among scholars and in the popular arena. If the nation of France becomes more like the nation of Germany, there is a presumption that “cultural diversity” has gone down. When people in Bangkok started wearing blue jeans and thus neglected native modes of dress, a wide array of commentators, from Naomi Klein to Benjamin Barber, suggest that such instances show a decline in cultural diversity. These writers asked how much one geographical region differs from another, and using that benchmark, they judged the progress of cultural diversity. But why should we focus on the form of diversity that lines up so closely with physical space, national boundaries, and “face time”?

The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
by Ndongo Sylla
Published 21 Jan 2014

How can labelling initiatives trade with actors whose economic, social and environmental practices are criticised worldwide? How can it be that they work hand in hand with actors often considered as responsible for the low remuneration received by producers and workers in the South and the North? Naomi Klein’s No Logo (2009) is without a doubt the best-known book among those that exposed these contradictions. In France, Christian Jacquiau’s investigation (2006) fits perfectly into this framework. Hence the hostile reception from the Fairtrade sphere. Fair Trade: a concept of variable geometry Looking at it closely, it is essentially the notion of Fair Trade as defined and implemented by FLO which is considered problematic by alterglobalist critics.

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
by Chris Hedges
Published 12 Jul 2009

Will we radically transform our system to one that protects the ordinary citizen and fosters the common good, that defies the corporate state, or will we employ the brutality and technology of our internal security and surveillance apparatus to crush all dissent? There were some who saw it coming. The political philosophers Sheldon S. Wolin, John Ralston Saul, and Andrew Bacevich, writers such as Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, David Korten, and Naomi Klein, and activists such as Bill McKibben, Wendell Berry, and Ralph Nader warned us about our march of folly. In the immediate years after the Second World War, a previous generation of social critics recognized the destructive potential of the rising corporate state. Books such as David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd, C.

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
by Parag Khanna
Published 11 Jan 2011

It’s cynical to claim that celebrities divert attention from those truly responsible for atrocities or poverty when they attempt to shine the spotlight on precisely those who are in charge—and it’s naïve to think those who are responsible on paper will act responsibly in practice. Author and activist Naomi Klein dismisses the “Bono-ization” of protest because it is less dangerous and less powerful than street protests. But the trouble with this logic is that the rich have never stormed their governments on behalf of the poor. That some intellectuals and politicians feel insecure about the prominence of celebrities pressuring them while educating the masses is deeply disturbing.

The Sport and Prey of Capitalists
by Linda McQuaig
Published 30 Aug 2019

Praise for Linda McQuaig On The Trouble with Billionaires A devastating expose … An indispensable read. — Naomi Klein Magnificent — the book of the moment. — George Monbiot, UK journalist and columnist for the Guardian I don’t know another book that illuminates the epic crime behind the current “economic crisis” as concisely, vividly and truthfully … — John Pilger, UK-based journalist and documentary filmmaker A narrative that moves along at the clip of a detective novel. I adore this book with its policy smarts and folksy style. — Ellie Kirzner, NOW Magazine This book is chock-full of hard economic facts — yet it’s as readable as a crime novel.

The Smartphone Society
by Nicole Aschoff

In 2015, 76 percent of Americans had never heard of Sanders or had no opinion of him; by October 2018, more than half of Americans had a positive opinion of him, largely because of social media.39 Millions followed the Dakota Pipeline protests, a movement started by LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, a Sioux elder, after two attention-grabbing videos were posted online: the well-known progressive author Naomi Klein’s interview of Tokata Iron Eyes, a cofounder of ReZpect Our Water, and Democracy Now! cohost Amy Goodman’s footage of protesters being pepper-sprayed and bitten by attack dogs at the protest camp.40 The digital nature of these movements also mitigated traditional constraints on organizing, such as age and resources.

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
by Safiya Umoja Noble
Published 8 Jan 2018

Davis, Jemima Pierre, Vilna Bashi Treitler, Imani Bazzell, Helen Neville, Cheryl Harris, Karen Flynn, Alondra Nelson, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Mireille Miller-Young, bell hooks, Brittney Cooper, Catherine Squires, Barbara Smith, and Janell Hobson, some of whom I have never met in person but whose intellectual work has made a profound difference for me for many years. I deeply appreciate the work and influence of Isabel Molina, Sandra Harding, Sharon Traweek, Jean Kilbourne, Naomi Wolfe, and Naomi Klein too. Herbert Schiller’s and Vijay Prashad’s work has also been important to me. I was especially intellectually sustained by a number of friends whose work I respect so much, who kept a critical eye on my research or career, and who inspired me when the reality of how women and girls are represented in commercial search would deplete me (in alphabetical order): André Brock, Ergin Bulut, Michelle Caswell, Sundiata Cha-Jua, Kate Crawford, Jessie Daniels, Christian Fuchs, Jonathan Furner, Anne Gilliland, Tanya Golash-Boza, Alex Halavais, Christa Hardy, Peter Hudson, John I.

What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right
by George R. Tyler
Published 15 Jul 2013

Donations from executives were helpful in the political career of Ronald Reagan and contributed to the Chicago School’s success in promoting deregulation. Friedman allowed his ideology to be exploited by executive suites, providing a fig leaf of respectability for their emerging narcissism. Writer Naomi Klein explains Friedman’s role in resurrecting laissez-faire economics this way: “If Friedman’s close friend Walter Wriston, head of Citibank, had come forward and argued that the minimum wage and corporate taxes should be abolished, he naturally would have been accused of being a robber baron. And that’s where the Chicago School came in.

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It is no accident that Soros’ Quantum fund is named in honor of physicist Werner Heisenberg. 39 John Kay, “How economics lost sight of the real world,” Financial Times, April 21, 2009. 40 Joseph Stiglitz, “Bleakonomics,” New York Times, September 30, 2007. 41 John Plender, “Capitalism in convulsion: Toxic assets head toward the public balance sheet,” Financial Times, September 19, 2008. 42 Nouriel Roubini, “Anglo-Saxon model has failed,” Financial Times, February 9, 2009. 43 Richard Thaler, “Markets can be wrong and the price is not always right,” Financial Times, August 4, 2009. 44 Ken Silverstein, “Labor’s Last Stand,” Harper’s Magazine, July 2009. 45 Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007), 68. 46 David E. Hoffman, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2009), 41. 47 See David Frum, Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again (New York: Broadway Books, 2008). 48 See Simon Johnson, “The Quiet Coup,” The Atlantic, May 2009. 49 Christine Mattauch, “The Secret Lobbyists,” Handelsblatt, February 28, 2011.

Losing Control: The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity
by Stephen D. King
Published 14 Jun 2010

Supporters of globalization include Martin Wolf with his Why Globalization Works (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004) and Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century (Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, New York, 2005). Its detractors – using varying arguments – include Joseph Stiglitz (Globalization and its Discontents [Penguin, London, 2003]), Naomi Klein (No Logo [Fourth Estate, New York, 1999]) and Noreena Hertz (The Silent Takeover [The Free Press, New York, 2002]). My sense, however, is that many of these books are written as if the West is still pulling the strings – either governments or corporations. This book suggests otherwise. CHAPTER 1: WIMBLEDON, THE OLYMPICS AND SCARCITY 1.

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
by Chris Hayes
Published 11 Jun 2012

.… Even those of us who considered ourselves pessimists were basically optimists: we thought that bullish investors might face a rude awakening, but that it would all have a happy ending.” But the experience of the fail decade has made Krugman profoundly skeptical of elite opinion and what he derisively calls Very Serious People. He now approvingly cites such insurrectionist heroes as the radical author Naomi Klein, something that would have been unthinkable a decade before. The insurrectionists not only think there is something fundamentally broken about our current institutions and the social order they hold up, but they believe the only way to hold our present elites accountable is to force them to forfeit their authority.

The Trouble With Billionaires
by Linda McQuaig
Published 1 May 2013

In a major investigative report in Rolling Stone, environmental activist Bill McKibben cited figures showing that fossil fuel companies currently have proven reserves of oil, gas ‌and coal worth $27 trillion.6 If the world were to reduce carbon emissions enough to keep the temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius (which the international community has agreed is the critical threshold), 80 per cent of those reserves would have to stay in the ground! McKibben notes that this means the fossil fuel industry would ‘be writing off $20 trillion in assets’ – not something corporate moguls are wont to do, especially when it involves their core business. As author Naomi Klein puts it, ‘with the fossil-fuel industry, wrecking the planet is their business model. It’s what they do.’ Given the stakes, it was almost inevitable that the opposition to climate change mounted by the fossil fuel lobby would be a campaign staggering in its size, scope and sophistication. At the same time, the campaign to tackle climate change was also considerably more sophisticated than the campaign to save the ozone layer, and was backed up by a more rigorous scientific process and a more engaged global public, including tens of millions of people who came to appreciate the enormity of the stakes for humanity.

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by Astra Taylor
Published 4 Mar 2014

The aim is to bypass or short-circuit viewer defenses by intimately associating with creative elements that people find appealing—to “engage target consumers in captive locations for extended periods of time through the power of emotional connections,” as the CEO of a leading media research firm put it. Given our populist sensibilities, advertisements, as writers Thomas Frank and Naomi Klein have observed, can no longer just tell us what to buy. Instead they offer us what appear to be gifts—like Wolf’s artist profiles—while slyly taking something—our attention or “mindshare”—in return. In this context it’s common for companies to fancy themselves patrons—modern-day Medicis, they’ve been called—giving needy creators a boost.

This Chair Rocks: A Manifiesto Against Ageism
by Ashton Applewhite
Published 10 Feb 2016

I have also been on staff at the American Museum of Natural History since 2000, where I write about everything under the sun. In 2015, I was honored to be included in Salt Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most inspiring women—along with Angelina Jolie, Elizabeth Warren, Amal Clooney, Aung San Suu Kyi, Naomi Klein, and other remarkable activists—committed to social change.

How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature
by George Monbiot
Published 14 Apr 2016

September 2015 Notes Introduction 1Thomas Piketty, 2014, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 2Susan Jacoby, 2008, The Age of American Unreason: Dumbing Down and the Future of Democracy, Old Street Publishing, London. 3David Harvey, 2005, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford University Press, Oxford; Naomi Klein, 2007, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Penguin Books, London. 4Isaiah Berlin, 1958, Two Concepts of Liberty, published in Isaiah Berlin, 1969, Four Essays on Liberty, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 5Fred Block and Margaret Somers, 2014, The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 6Amartya Sen, 1981, Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1.

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel
Published 12 Aug 2020

I’ve benefitted immensely from personal conversations – and in some cases collaborations – with Giorgos Kallis, Kate Raworth, Daniel O’Neill, Julia Steinberger, John Bellamy Foster, Ian Gough, Ajay Chaudhary, Glen Peters, Ewan McGaughey, Asad Rehman, Bev Skeggs, David Graeber, Sam Bliss, Riccardo Mastini, Jason Hirsch, Federico de Maria, Peter Victor, Ann Pettifor, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Peter Lipman, Joan Martinez-Alier, Martin Kirk, Alnoor Ladha, Huzaifa Zoomkawala, Patrick Bond, Rupert Read, Fred Damon, Wende Marshall, The Rules team, my editors at the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera and other outlets, where I first worked out many of the ideas that appear in this book, and of course my agent Zoe Ross, and Tom Avery, my editor at Penguin, who were willing to give this idea a platform. I’ve also learned from and been inspired by the writings of many others: Silvia Federici, Jason Moore, Andreas Malm, Naomi Klein, Kevin Anderson, Tim Jackson, Juliet Schor, Vandana Shiva, Arturo Escobar, George Monbiot, Herman Daly, Kate Aronoff, Robert Macfarlane, Abdullah Öcalan, Ariel Salleh, David Wallace-Wells, Nnimmo Bassey, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Timothy Morton, Daniel Quinn, Carolyn Merchant, Vijay Prashad, David Harvey, Maria Mies, Gustavo Esteva, André Gorz, Serge Latouche, Bill McKibben, Jack D.

Emergence
by Steven Johnson

The Seattle protests of 1999 were characterized by an extraordinary form of distributed organization: smaller affinity groups representing specific causes—anti-Nike critics, anarchists, radical environmentalists, labor unions—would operate independently for much of the time, only coming together for occasional “spokescouncil” meetings, where each group would elect a single member to represent their interests. As Naomi Klein reported in The Nation, “At some rallies activists carry actual cloth webs to symbolize their movement. When it’s time for a meeting, they lay the web on the ground, call out ‘All spokes on the web,’ and the structure becomes a street-level boardroom.” To some older progressives, steeped in the more hierarchical tradition of past labor movements, those diverse “affinity groups” seemed hopelessly scattered and unfocused, with no common language or ideology uniting them.

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
by Guy Standing
Published 27 Feb 2011

Obama never tried to reach out to the precariat, even though many in it had been hopeful that he would do so. The social democratic imagination could not empathise with real predicaments. In the United States and elsewhere, anger grew at some of the corrupt aspects of the globalisation era. Recall the systemic use of subsidies. Naomi Klein among others has called the globalisation era ‘crony capitalism’, revealing itself not as a huge ‘free market’ but as a system in which politicians hand over public wealth to private players in exchange for political support. Ironically, far-right groups captured the anti-corporatist backlash. If the state has been captured by cronyism, why should anyone support a ‘strong state’?

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
Published 7 Apr 2014

Together, Sacco and Hedges might just have created a form that can speak across divides unbridgeable without the supplement of graphic narrative.” —Public Books “ . . . a bleak, fist-shaking look at the effects of global capitalism in the United States.” —Joe Gross, Austin American-Statesman “This is a book that should warm the hearts of political activists such as Naomi Klein or the nonagenerian Pete Seeger. And cause apoplexy among the Tea Party and its fellow travellers. . . . Sure, it’s a polemic, but it’s a polemic with a human face.” —Globe and Mail (Canada) “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a harrowing account of the exploited American underclass. . . .

Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer
Published 14 Apr 2013

Erik Rauch, “Productivity and the Workweek,” http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime (accessed December 9, 2012); John de Graaf, “Affluenza Cure Calls for Political Action: Different Standards for Workweek an Opportunity,” special to the Denver Post, October 29, 2001. 49. For a more artistic way of saying pretty much the same thing, see the Flobots’ “Handlebars” video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y4EptA (accessed December 9, 2012). 50. Naomi Klein, “Geoengineering: Testing the Waters,” New York Times, Opinion, October 27, 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/geoengineering-testing-the-waters.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& (accessed December 9, 2012). 51. Division for Science Policy and Sustainable Development at UNESCO, “UNESCO Science Report: The Current Status of Science around the World,” Executive Summary (UNESCO Publishing, 2010), http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001898/189883e.pdf (accessed December 9, 2012). 52.

No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
by Linsey McGoey
Published 14 Apr 2015

Schrift, ed., The Logic of the Gift: Toward an Ethic of Generosity (London and New York: Routledge, 1997); see also Jacques Derrida, Given Time: Counterfeit Money (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). 36Pierre Bourdieu, ‘Marginalia – Some Additional Notes on the Gift,’ in Schrift, The Logic of the Gift, 231–2. 37Mark Dowie, American Foundations: An Investigative History (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), ix. 38Barry Ellsworth, ‘Koch Brothers’ Lies Tear at Very Fabric of American Society’, 2 August 2014, allvoices.com. 39Liza Featherstone, ‘On the Wal-Mart Money Trail’, The Nation, 21 November 2005. 40Foundation Center, ‘Top 100 US Foundations by Asset Size’, at foundationcenter.org. 41Clare O’Connor, ‘Report: Walmart’s Billionaire Waltons Give Almost None of Own Cash to Foundation’, Forbes, 6 March 2014. 42Interview with James Love, available at fireintheblood.com. 43Francesca Sawaya, ‘Philanthropy, Patronage, and Civil Society: Experiences From Germany, Great Britain and North America’, American Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 1 (2008), 203. CHAPTER ONE 1Alec MacGillis, ‘Scandal at Clinton Inc’., New Republic, 22 September 2013. 2Quotes from www.clintonfoundation.org. 3Branson’s shortfall was described in Naomi Klein’s compelling book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (London: Allen Lane, 2014). The CGI does maintain what they term a “commitment to action” webpage listing how many pledges have been fulfilled or not, but there is no penalty if a pledge is not carried out. 4Nicholas Confessore and Amy Chozick, ‘Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finance and Ambitions’, New York Times, 13 August 2013. 5‘Integrated Activist Defense’, teneoholdings.com. 6My description is indebted to Andy Hoffman’s National Magazine Award–nominated analysis of Clinton and Guistra’s partnership.

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Published 30 Aug 2021

For more, see Leo Strine, “The Dangers of Denial: The Need for a Clear-Eyed Understanding of the Power and Accountability Structure Established by the Delaware General Corporation Law,” SSRN Scholarly Paper ID 2576389, Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network, https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2576389. 34 Lawrence Mishel and Jori Kandra, “CEO Compensation Surged 14% in 2019 to $21.3 Million: CEOs Now Earn 320 Times as Much as a Typical Worker,” Economic Policy Institute (blog), August 18, 2020, https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-surged-14-in-2019-to-21-3-million-ceos-now-earn-320-times-as-much-as-a-typical-worker/. 35 Rebecca Henderson, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire (New York: PublicAffairs, 2020); Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014). 36 Sarah Kaplan, The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-Offs to Transformation (Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2019); R. Edward Freeman, Kristen Martin, and Bidhan L. Parmar, The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs (New York: Columbia Business School Publishing, 2020).

Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
by John Elkington
Published 6 Apr 2020

The film eventually scooped dozens of awards, posing a simple, if deeply provocative, question: If corporations are considered by law to be legal “persons,” then what would happen if you put them on the psychiatrist’s couch? What sort of persons might they turn out to be? The film crew had interviewed some forty insiders and critics, among them Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore. Their conclusion: At least as defined by law in the United States, corporations are psychopaths. Shareholder activist Bob Monks, quoted by Bakan in the book, explained that the corporation is “an externalizing machine, in the same way that a shark is a killing machine”—not because it is malevolent but because that is the way it was designed.

The Googlization of Everything:
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Published 1 Jan 2010

The texts, signs, and messages that flow through global communications networks do not carry a clear and unambiguous celebration of ideas and ideologies we might lazily label Western, such as consumerism, individualism, and secularism.61 These commercial pipelines may instead carry texts that overtly criticize 110 TH E G OOGL IZATION OF US and threaten the tenets of global capitalism, such as albums by the leftist rock band Rage against the Machine, films by Michael Moore, and books by Naomi Klein. Time Warner does not care if the data inscribed on the compact discs it sells simulates the voice of Madonna or of Ali Farka Touré. What flows from North to South does not matter as much as how it flows, how much revenue the flows generate, and who uses and reuses them. In this way, the Googlization of us has profound consequences.

Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
by Robert McCrum
Published 24 May 2010

Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer (New York, 2008). Thomas Keneally, Lincoln (London, 2003). Frank Kermode, The Age of Shakespeare (London, 2004). Parag Khanna, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (London, 2008). Mark Kishlansky, A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603–1714 (London, 1996). Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (London, 2007). James Kynge, China Shakes the World (London, 2006). Mark Leonard, What Does China Think? (London, 2008). Seth Lerer, Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (New York, 2007). John Lukacs, Five Days in London (New Haven, 2001)

Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
by Jeff Faux
Published 16 May 2012

That, the farmer knew, would be too expensive. So he asked the advice of his daughter, who had not gone to college. She replied, “Get the pigs out of the trough.” If you are an American, your future depends on us doing just that. Notes 1. Martin Fackler, “Japan Goes from Dynamic to Disheartened,” New York Times, October 17, 2010. 2. Naomi Klein, “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” Nation, November 28, 2011. 3. “Bank Bailouts Supporter Palin Criticizes TARP as ‘Crony Capitalism,’ ‘Slush Fund . . . Just As We Had Been Warned About,’ ” Media Matters, February 6, 2010, http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201002060024. 4. John Nichols, “Rick Perry’s Attack on Democracy,” Nation, October 10, 2011, http://www.thenation.com/article/163548/rick-perrys-attack-democracy. 5.

Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
by Paul Mason
Published 30 Sep 2013

Did they know this had all been done before? They had a vague idea. I watched their eyes widen—sixty of them, cross-legged on the Jane Austen–era floorboards—as I explained the debates between Proudhon, Blanqui, Marx and Garibaldi in the years before 1871, scarcely needing to draw out the parallels with Climate Camp, the Black Bloc, Naomi Klein and the Zapatistas. Afterwards, a few of us wedged ourselves into the nearby Museum Tavern, where Marx had been a regular. There was @spitzenprodukte and @benvickers_, both art activists; @dougald—the inventor of the term ‘collapsonomics’; @digitalmaverick, a schoolteacher and ‘moodle evangelist’; and Tim, who’d dedicated his life to fighting for human rights in the Niger Delta.

Corbyn
by Richard Seymour

Scheuerman, Carl Schmitt: The End of Law, Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999; Renato Christi, Carl Schmitt and Authoritarian Liberalism: Strong State, Free Economy, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1998; Perry Anderson, ‘The Intransigent Right’ in Spectrum: from right to left in the world of ideas, Verso, 2005, pp. 15–16; and Renée Sallas, ‘Friedrich von Hayek, Leader and Master of Liberalism’, El Mercurio, 12 April 1981. On the role of neoliberals in the Pinochet dictatorship, see David Harvey, Neoliberalism: A Short History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 7–9; Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007, pp. 77–87; Greg Grandin, ‘The Road from Serfdom: Milton Friedman and the Economics of Empire’, Counterpunch, 17 November 2006. And on the underlying assumptions of neoliberal thought with regard to state and economy, see: Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, London: Verso, 2013; Philip Mirowski, ‘On the Origins (at Chicago) of some Species of Neoliberal Evolutionary Economics’, in Robert van Horn, Philip Mirowski and Thomas A Stapleford, eds., Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America’s Most Powerful Economics Program, Cambridge University Press, 2011. 26James M.

Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
by Jamie K. McCallum
Published 15 Nov 2022

Christopher Flavelle, “Work Injuries Tied to Heat Are Vastly Undercounted, Study Finds,” New York Times, July 15, 2021, Climate, www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/climate/heat-injuries.html; Erika Mahoney, “Farm Workers Face Double Threat: Wildfire Smoke and COVID-19,” NPR, September 7, 2020, www.npr.org/2020/09/07/909314223/farm-workers-face-double-threat-wildfire-smoke-and-covid-19; Whitney Kimball, “Amazon’s New Safety Crisis Could Be Heat Waves,” Gizmodo, June 29, 2021, https://gizmodo.com/amazons-new-safety-crisis-could-be-heat-waves-1847188930. 21. Naomi Klein, “Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change,” Dissent, Winter 2020, www.dissentmagazine.org/article/care-and-repair-left-politics-in-the-age-of-climate-change. 22. IWL Rutgers, “Care Work Is Climate Work: A Series on the Green New Deal,” November 14, 2019, YouTube video, www.youtube.com/watch?

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
by David Talbot
Published 5 Sep 2016

After blasting away these negative thoughts, Cameron sought to replace them with “good ones,” through what he called “psychic driving”—playing taped messages encouraging positive behavior to his nearly comatose victims for between sixteen and twenty hours a day, week after week, as they slipped in and out of consciousness. In one case, a patient underwent reprogramming in Cameron’s Sleep Room for 101 days. The people who came to Cameron were generally seeking relief from everyday psychological ailments like depression and anxiety, even for help dealing with marital problems. But as author Naomi Klein later wrote, Cameron’s “shock and awe warfare on the mind” brought only much deeper misery to the patients—many of them women—in his care. “Though he was a genius at destroying people, he could not remake them,” Klein observed. “A follow-up study conducted after Cameron left the Allan Memorial Institute found that 75 percent of his former patients were worse off after treatment than they were before they were admitted.”

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: Dalessio and Silberstein, Wolff’s Headache and Other Pain, 4. 306“potentially useful secret drugs”: McCoy, A Question of Torture, 45–46. 306Joan has disturbing memories: Author interview with Joan Talley. 307“I have just understood the nature”: AMD letter to father, AWD correspondence. 308Cameron saw himself as an iconoclastic innovator: Rebecca Lemov, “Brainwashing’s Avatar: The Curious Career of Dr. Ewen Cameron,” Grey Room 45 (Fall 2011): 61–87. 308“shock and awe warfare on the mind”: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), 31. 308“he was a genius at destroying people”: Ibid., 47. 309“like prisoners of the Communists”: Ibid., 37. 309Kastner would come to think of the doctor: Ibid., 26. 309Orlikow could not remember her husband: The Scotsman (Edinburgh), Jan. 6, 2006. 310“a terrible mistake”: Klein, Shock Doctrine, 42. 310the work of Cameron . . . lives on at the agency: Ibid., 39. 310“He thought my brother could do better”: Author interview with Joan Talley. 310“I wish I could help him”: Penfield letter, Feb. 22, 1959, AWD correspondence, Princeton. 310She felt “joy”: Letter to MB, Nov. 1, 1961, Clover Dulles papers, Schlesinger Library. 311“endlessly patient in general”: DePue interview with Joan Talley. 311“the hands of a person who thinks”: Clover Dulles journals, Schlesinger Library. 312Dulles arranged for his niece: Author interview with Joan Talley. 312“walking on the bottom of the sea”: Letter to MB, Clover Dulles correspondence, Schlesinger Library. 312recommended that she see Dr.

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
by Richard Heinberg
Published 1 Jun 2011

Those with privilege will no doubt struggle to maintain it, while the poor, driven to desperation by generally worsening economic conditions, may in increasing numbers of instances organize or even revolt in order to increase their share of a shrinking pie. In her 2008 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Canadian anti-globalization author and activist Naomi Klein argued that modern neo-liberal capitalism thrives on disasters, in that politicians and corporate leaders take advantage of natural calamities and wars to ram though programs for privatization, free trade, and slashed social spending — programs that are inherently unpopular and would have little chance of adoption in ordinary times.51 Klein’s thesis seems confirmed in the present instance: the end of growth is presenting societies with an ongoing economic crisis, and we have already seen how, in the US, well-heeled investors and executives have benefited from government bailouts while millions of workers have lost jobs and homes.

An Optimist's Tour of the Future
by Mark Stevenson
Published 4 Dec 2010

I could fill this book again if I did. But as far as books go, that market is pretty much covered. In The Rational Optimist, Matt Ridley recalls browsing the current affairs section of an airport bookshop and, despite volumes on offer from authors as diverse a Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Al Franken, Al Gore, John Gray, Naomi Klein, George Monbiot and Michael Moore, not seeing a single optimistic volume. ‘All argued to a greater or lesser degree that (a) the world is a terrible place (b) it’s getting worse (c) it’s mostly the fault of commerce and (d) a turning point has been reached,’ he lamented. I think Ridley is being a bit harsh on those books.

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
by Stephanie Kelton
Published 8 Jun 2020

—Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic advisor, Allianz “In a world of epic, overlapping crises, Stephanie Kelton is an indispensable source of moral clarity. Whether you’re all in for MMT, or merely MMT-curious, the truths that she teaches about money, debt, and deficits give us the tools we desperately need to build a safe future for all. Read it—then put it to use.” —Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal “Kelton’s game-changing book on the myths around government deficits is both theoretically rigorous and empirically entertaining. It reminds us that money is not limited, only our imagination of what to do with it. After you read it you will never think of the public purse as a household economy again.

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
by Gregory Zuckerman
Published 5 Nov 2019

Renaissance spent years legally converting short-term gains into long-term profits, saving its executives billions of dollars in taxes, even as Simons decried a lack of spending by the government on basic education in science, mathematics, and other areas. Some strident critics, including author and activist Naomi Klein, have questioned the growing influence of society’s “benevolent billionaires,” who sometimes single-handedly allocate resources and determine priorities in the nonprofit world at a time of stretched government budgets. Simons also can be criticized for hiring waves of top scientists and mathematicians for his hedge fund, even while lamenting about the talent that private industry siphoned from the public sphere and how many schools are unable to retain top teachers.

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth
by Chris Smaje
Published 14 Aug 2020

This may happen as wage stagnation and rising poverty, inequality and work precarity, set against rising capitalist profits – increasingly common worldwide, especially in the richer countries – makes hopes of long-term prosperity for the majority of people ever more visibly blocked by a minority.124 Sociologist Wolfgang Streeck coined the term ‘consolidation state’ to describe the turning away of the contemporary state from the wider interests of its citizens towards the specific interests of global markets and the wealthy owners of capital. Naomi Klein calls it ‘McGovernment’, a ‘happy meal of cutting taxes, privatizing services, liberalizing regulations, busting unions’ to remove impediments to private markets.125 In this way, the ideal of the creative and productive neoliberal market economy becomes the reality of rapacious and unfettered rent-seeking by global capital.

Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America
by David Callahan
Published 9 Aug 2010

An administration heavy with wealthy Wall Streeters, Robert Rubin most notably, put globalization on a fast track and removed trade barriers to make the world flatter in ways that benefited corporations while leaving U.S. workers to be steamrolled by foreign competition. In the view of critics such as Naomi Klein, the rich have turned the world into one big zone of plunder, with multinational corporations moving like locusts to suck wealth from developing countries. All the while, oblivious to the suffering of billions, the wealthy treat foreign countries as playgrounds, bopping around in carbon-spewing private jets to places like Cabo San Lucas, Cannes, and Dubai.

Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike
by Eugene W. Holland
Published 1 Jan 2009

A host of oftentimes brutal laws designed to undermine whatever resistance people maintained against the demands of wage labor accompanied the dispossession of peasants’ rights, even before capitalism had become a significant economic force.68 Once capitalism has become a significant economic force, subordination to capital by political or blatantly military means tends to get displaced or remain in effect in the economically underdeveloped regions of the globe, whereas subordination by economic means tends to prevail in the over­ developed regions. With the new, neoliberal economic order, however, as both Naomi Klein and David Harvey have shown,69 forms of so-called primitive accumulation reappear in even the most overdeveloped econo­ mies—so that in the United States, for example, a regime of expanded ac­ cumulation by economic means alternates with a regime of accumulation by blatantly military means, as we saw in chapter 2.

Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens
Published 11 Mar 2013

They were literally "where the money was." How can a bank's share price go down? Later, as bank after bank failed and had to be rescued by the taxpayer, the general public was shocked. The only possible cause must have been corruption and fraud. For sure, corruption and fraud were present. As Naomi Klein lucidly explained in her 2007 book "The Shock Doctrine", any crisis is an opportunity for the mega-bandits to move in and empty the coffers. It's certain that some groups knew that banks would collapse and bet heavily on that. The crisis was long in the making. It was fully predictable; indeed, it was inevitable.

Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
by Tim Jackson
Published 8 Dec 2016

Praise for the second edition of Prosperity without Growth ‘It is hard to improve a classic, but Jackson has done it… a clearly written yet scholarly union of moral vision with solid economics.’ Herman Daly, author of Steady-State Economics ‘I remember exactly where I was when I first read Prosperity without Growth. It cuts through the intellectual clamour with clarity, courage – and hope.’ Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate ‘Tim Jackson’s Prosperity without Growth systematises and renders tangible an essential project few believed to be practical: recovering the dream of shared prosperity and human development through decoupling it from the bandwagon of growth.

21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
Published 29 Aug 2018

Challinor et al., ‘A Meta-Analysis of Crop Yield under Climate Change and Adaptation’, Nature Climate Change 4 (2014), 287–91; Elisabeth Lingren et al., ‘Monitoring EU Emerging Infectious Disease Risk Due to Climate Change’, Science 336:6080 (2012), 418–19; Frank Biermann and Ingrid Boas, ‘Preparing for a Warmer World: Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Change’, Global Environmental Politics 10:1 (2010), 60–88; Jeff Goodell, The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilized World (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017); Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Washington: National Geographic, 2008); Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014); Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction, op. cit. 10 Johan Rockström et al., ‘A Roadmap for Rapid Decarbonization’, Science 355:6331, 23 March 2017. 11 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Global Food: Waste Not, Want Not (London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2013), 12. 12 Paul Shapiro, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World (New York: Gallery Books, 2018). 13 ‘Russia’s Putin Says Climate Change in Arctic Good for Economy’, CBS News, 30 March 2017; Neela Banerjee, ‘Russia and the US Could be Partners in Climate Change Inaction,’ Inside Climate News, 7 February 2017; Noah Smith, ‘Russia Wins in a Retreat on Climate Change’, Bloomberg View, 15 December 2016; Gregg Easterbrook, ‘Global Warming: Who Loses—and Who Wins?’

Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton
Published 30 Apr 2014

Aesthetic revulsion against adverts and logos is not a new thing, nor will it be overcome by habituation. Indeed, it is one aspect of the negative response to techne described in the last chapter: one aspect of our alienation from a world in which everything is an instrument and nothing stands proud. From Vance Packard’s The Hidden Persuaders to Naomi Klein’s No Logo writers have drawn attention to the fact that we are not just distracted by these things, but invaded by them. They seek possession of the human soul, and they do this by colonizing the human habitat. We experience them as ugly because they are the avatars of the thing that is destroying us – the habit of remaking the world and everything in it as an object of consumption.

The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias
Published 19 Aug 2019

Thus, the appropriation of this resource is presented as something natural, with benefits for all of us. The transformation of “raw” data into a resource from which corporations can derive value is possible only through a material process of extraction, the second of the concepts we are discussing. As Naomi Klein observes, extractivism implies a “nonreciprocal, dominance-based relationship with the earth” that creates sacrifice zones, “places that, to their extractors, somehow don’t count and therefore can be . . . destroyed, for the supposed greater good of economic progress.”17 But extraction has also acquired new horizons.

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
by Steven W. Thrasher
Published 1 Aug 2022

And it can help us to understand not only why viruses reside where they do, and in whom they do, but also why the underclass has formed in the first place. It can help us to understand that the dynamic works in both directions: that just as marginalized people are made vulnerable to viruses, viruses are also used as justification for the policies and systems that marginalize people in the first place. Just as Naomi Klein’s “shock doctrine” and Michelle Alexander’s use of the concept of a “new Jim Crow” have done, a theory of the viral underclass can serve as a framework for understanding how vulnerability is manufactured for certain kinds of people and how it spreads through society more broadly—with the economy, media, and law acting as potent modes of transmission for the infection of inequality.

Dawn of Detroit
by Tiya Miles
Published 13 Sep 2017

William Hull to James Madison, August 3, 1805, as quoted in Farmer, History of Detroit, 490. 79. David Braithwaite, “Brigadier General William Hull: His Military and Political Story,” Hull Family Association Journal 15:1 (Autumn 2004): 96–99, 97. 80. Mr. Gentle as quoted in Farmer, History of Detroit, 491; Bald, Detroit’s First, 241. 81. Bald, Detroit’s First, 243. 82. See Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Picador, 2007). 83. Bald, Great Fire, 12. Elijah Brush, James May, and John Anderson to the President of the United States, 1806, LMS/Alexander D. Fraser Papers, 1800–1816, BHC, DPL. 84. Bald, Great Fire, 16. Kenneth R. Fletcher, “A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington D.C.,” Smithsonian.com, April 30, 2008.

A People's History of Poverty in America
by Stephen Pimpare
Published 11 Nov 2008

Nash, “Poverty and Politics in Early American History,” in Down and Out in Early America, ed. Billy G. Smith (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004), 36–37, fn 107; Stephen Pimpare, The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (New York: The New Press, 2004). See also Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007). 4 Robert E. Cray Jr., Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700–1830 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), 78. 5 Although states in the Midwest had pension and other relief programs for the blind in the late nineteenth century, and by 1919 fourteen states had some such provision (the first was in 1866 in the city of New York), by 1920 Colorado was the best place to be if you were blind, since the greatest number of its blind residents received some form of state relief.

A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption
by Steven Hiatt; John Perkins
Published 1 Jan 2006

Niall Ferguson, “Welcome the New Imperialism,” Guardian, October 31, 2001. 2. Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (New York: Wiley, 2003), p. 209. 3. John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004), pp. 14-15. 4. Naomi Klein, “Not Neo-Con, Just Plain Greed,” Globe and Mail (Toronto), December 20, 2003. 5. 2006 World Data Sheet (Washington, D.C.: Population Reference Bureau, 2006). 6. Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: How the Economic and Intellectual Histories of Capitalism Have Been Re-Written to Justify Neo-Liberal Capitalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). 7.

The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
by Yascha Mounk
Published 15 Feb 2018

The solution to the ills of undemocratic liberalism is to abolish tutelary institutions, to boot elites out of power, and to put the people back in charge.126 This basic set of intellectual instincts manifests itself in debates about a large range of issues and holds a significant amount of sway on both the far left and the far right. It fuels arguments against trade treaties as well as central banks. And it animates the language of Donald Trump as well as Jill Stein, and Stephen Bannon as well as Naomi Klein. The problem with all this is that it caricatures the origin, the operation, and the purpose of these institutions. It is true that political elites are overly comfortable with technocratic institutions that so happen to give them a lot of power. It is obvious that financial elites spend a lot of money and effort to mold these institutions to their own advantage.

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by Sarah Jaffe
Published 26 Jan 2021

PRAISE FOR WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK “Work Won’t Love You Back brilliantly chronicles the transformation of work into a labor of love, demonstrating how this seemingly benign narrative is wreaking havoc on our lives, communities, and planet. By pulling apart the myth that work is love, Jaffe shows us that we can reimagine futures built on care, rather than exploitation. A tremendous contribution.” —Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal “Sarah Jaffe gives us engrossing stories of how ordinary people in familiar jobs navigate the precarious and all-consuming conditions of work and fight back against them. How did we come to this? Through sharp analyses of the recent history and social contours of each occupation, Jaffe helps us understand the contemporary landscape and provides tools to contest how we are put to work.

The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power
by Keith Barnham
Published 7 May 2015

They fear that it will impact on the profits of the fossil-fuel industry. Their influence on Congress during the administrations of George W. Bush was exposed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr in Crimes Against Nature, where he described the “corrosive effect of corporate cronyism.” The politics has been brought up to date by Naomi Klein in her book This Changes Everything. Her arguments are summarised by her equally memorable phrase “capitalism versus the climate.” The Burning Answer is complementary to both of these excellent political tracts. It explains how renewable technologies work and how PV is similar to the technology of the semiconductor revolution that has changed all our lives.

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by Evgeny Morozov
Published 16 Nov 2010

The rigidity of thought suggested by the Orwell-Huxley coordinate system leads many an otherwise shrewd observer to overlook the Huxleyan elements in dictatorships and, as disturbingly, the Orwellian elements in democracies. This is why it has become so easy to miss the fact that, as the writer Naomi Klein puts it, “China is becoming more like [the West] in very visible ways (Starbucks, Hooters, cellphones that are cooler than ours), and [the West is] becoming more like China in less visible ones (torture, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, though not nearly on the Chinese scale).” It seems fairly noncontroversial that most modern dictators would prefer a Huxleyan world to an Orwellian one, if only because controlling people through entertainment is cheaper and doesn’t involve as much brutality.

Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth
by Andrew Smith
Published 3 Apr 2006

If you were an antiwar hippy protester, they looked like the same group of people.” So I seemed to have happened upon a space Country Joe McDonald, who went on to tell me about the Foundation’s recent “Return to the Moon” conference and their sophisticated “jujitsu” lobbying model (an idea I first heard being used by environmental groups in Naomi Klein’s antiglobalization tract No Logo); about being part of MirCorp, the private, Amsterdam-based company partly run by people who’d marched against the war in their youth, which actually managed to lease the Mir space station from the Russian government for a brief period, only to be brutally “taken out” by the dark forces of the space establishment; about testifying before Congress and meeting high-level Russian officials in Moscow; about the various flashpoints within the organization, and all in a language that I understood.

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
by John Cassidy
Published 10 Nov 2009

.”: Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose (New York: Avon Books, 1971), 195. 80 “If one storekeeper . . .”: Ibid., 212. 80 “The consumer is protected . . .”: Ibid., 215. 81 “if we continue to grant . . .”: Ibid., xx. 81 “The two ideas . . .”: Ibid., 297. 81 “Reagan was especially . . .”: Martin Anderson, Revolution (San Diego: Harcourt, 1988), 172. 82 “due almost entirely . . .”: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), 591. 83 “From 1973 to 1995 . . .”: Friedman, Two Lucky People, 408. 83 “What’s the single most important . . .”: Quoted in Daniel Yergin amd Joseph Stanislaw, Commanding Heights (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 150–51. 7.

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
by Johann Hari
Published 20 Jan 2015

On the first of each month, for a year after this book is published, I will post questions from readers and go through them, and I will go through any requests for corrections and lay out my thinking on whether they are correct. To save the best for last—I am especially indebted to Elton John, David Furnish, and Andrew Sullivan, the fairy godfathers of gays everywhere; Jemima Khan, Naomi Klein, and Eve Ensler, the fairy godmothers of lefties everywhere; and Barbara Bateman, my own personal fairy godmother. I couldn’t have done this without you. Notes Any quote not listed here was said directly to the author and can be heard on the book’s website: www.chasingthescream.com/audio Introduction 1 This has been independently verified by the publisher of this book through contact with my ex-boyfriend and through the public writings of my relative. 2 This account of my own drug use has been independently verified by the publisher of this book with the doctor who treated me all through this period and after. 3 Shortly before this, I was involved in a journalistic controversy.

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci
Published 14 May 2017

For an early invocation of the term in reference to networked social movements, see Jesse Hirsh of the “TAO collective”—a Canadian-based collective that provided free technical support, e-mail, and web hosting especially to dissidents and movements—who referred to their efforts as “geek adhocracy.” Recounted in Naomi Klein, “The Vision Thing,” Nation, June 22, 2000, https://www.thenation.com/article/vision-thing/. 3. See especially W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg, “The Logic of Connective Action,” Information, Communication and Society 15, no. 5 (2012): 739–68. 4. “Egypt: The Legacy of Mohammed Mahmoud Street,” BBC News, November 19, 2012, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-20395260; also conceptually reintroduced in the context of social movements and digital technology by scholars of the early internet, including in the book Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold. 5.

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
by Oliver Morton
Published 26 Sep 2015

If, on the other hand, you keep focused on the industrial Anthropocene, you can see human interference in the earth-system not as an unavoidable consequence of being an upright, imaginative, tool-using ape, but as the effect of a particular way of organizing the lives of such apes – industrial capitalism, a social and political contingency inextricable from the rise of fossil fuels. If you think, in the words of Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, that capitalism is at war with the climate, you will not want a good Anthropocene – you will hold out for no Anthropocene at all. This is not a subject where people can simply agree to disagree – or impose their wills on each other through the more general mechanisms of politics.

Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse
by Adrian Wooldridge
Published 29 Nov 2011

Kenichi Ohmae has published a succession of books hammering home the argument, such as The Borderless World (1990) and The End of the Nation State (1995). (For all his celebration of “borderlessness,” Ohmae’s fame depended on his ability to explain America to Japan and Japan to America.) The left has also jumped on the “borderless” bandwagon. Naomi Klein and various “Kleinians” like Noreena Hertz have long argued that the world’s biggest multinational companies are bigger than all but a handful of nation-states.10 These multinational giants are the real masters of the universe, the argument goes; governments are mere playthings by comparison, constantly adjusting their policies to attract foreign investment and to prevent domestic companies from fleeing abroad.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
by Gabor Mate and Peter A. Levine
Published 5 Jan 2010

[In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts] reads not only as a lively textbook analysis of the physiological and psychological causes of drug addiction, but also as an investigation into his heart and mind.” The Globe and Mail “Gabor Maté’s connections—between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political—are bold, wise and deeply moral. He is a healer to be cherished and this exciting book arrives at just the right time.” Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine “It seems odd to use the word ‘beautiful’ to describe a book that focuses frequently, in graphic, unrelenting detail, on the lives of some of the most hopeless outcasts of our society: the hard-core street addicts with whom Dr. Gabor Maté works. Yet that’s the word that came repeatedly to mind as I read In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by David C. Korten
Published 1 Jan 2001

Business Week, March 1, 2004, 84–94. 43. “Inside the New China,” Fortune, October 4, 2004, 92. 44. Engario and Roberts, “China Price.” 45. Argentina: Hope in Hard Times was produced by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young. For information see http://www.movingimages.org/ page22.html. The Take was produced by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein. See http:// www.nfb.ca/ webextension/thetake/. Chapter 4: The Opportunity 1. As quoted by Philip H. Duran, “Eight Indigenous Prophecies,” http://home.earthlink.net/ ~phil-duran/prophecies.htm. 2. Thomas Berry, The Great Work (New York: Bell Tower, 1999), 201. 3. This characterization of the organizer cells is from John Feltwell, The Natural History of Butterflies (New York: Facts on File, 1986), 23. 4.

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness
Published 28 Mar 2010

For more on the histories, theories, prospects, and limitations of “culture jamming,” see Mark Dery, Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs (Westfield, nJ: Open Magazine pamphlet Series, 1993); lisa prothers, “Culture Jamming with pedro Carvajal,” Bad Subjects, no. 37 (1998); Kalle lasn, Culture Jamming: The Uncooling of America, 1st ed. (new york: Eagle Brook, 1999); naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (new york: picador, 2000), esp. 279–310; Duncombe, “Stepping Off the Sidewalk”; andrew Boyd and Stephen Duncombe, “The Manufacture of Dissent: What the left Can learn from las vegas,” Journal of Aesthetics and Protest 1, no. 3 (2004): 34–47; Christine Harold, “pranking rhetoric: ‘Culture Jamming’ as Media activism,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 21, no. 3 (2004): 189–212; Jo littler, “Beyond the Boycott,” Cultural Studies 19, no. 2 (2005): 227–252; vince Carducci, “Culture Jamming: a Sociological perspective,” Journal of Consumer Culture 6, no. 1 (2006): 116–138; M.

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley
Published 17 May 2010

The generation that has experienced more peace, freedom, leisure time, education, medicine, travel, movies, mobile phones and massages than any generation in history is lapping up gloom at every opportunity. In an airport bookshop recently, I paused at the Current Affairs section and looked down the shelves. There were books by Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Al Franken, Al Gore, John Gray, Naomi Klein, George Monbiot and Michael Moore, which all argued to a greater or lesser degree that (a) the world is a terrible place; (b) it’s getting worse; (c) it’s mostly the fault of commerce; and (d) a turning point has been reached. I did not see a single optimistic book. Even the good news is presented as bad news.

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
by Joshua B. Freeman
Published 27 Feb 2018

In addition to Appelbaum, “Giant Transnational Contractors,” particularly useful works include Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It’s Transforming the American Economy (New York: Penguin, 2006); Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution; and Xue Hong, “Outsourcing in China: Walmart and Chinese Manufacturers,” in Anita Chan, ed., Walmart in China (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011). 39.For a pioneering critical look at modern branding, see Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador, 1999). Lüthje, “Electronics Contract Manufacturing,” 230 (Nishimura quote); Marcelo Prince and Willa Plank, “A Short History of Apple’s Manufacturing in the U.S.,” The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6, 2012, http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/12/06/a-short-history-of-apples-manufacturing-in-the-u-s/; Peter Burrows, “Apple’s Cook Kicks Off ‘Made in USA’ Push with Mac Pro,” Dec. 19, 2013, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-12-18/apple-s-cook-kicks-off-made-in-usa-push-with-mac-pro; G.

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen
Published 14 Sep 2020

Then in 1980 the empire struck back, and victory was theirs. The economic left, during its decades in the wilderness, produced its own new think tanks (such as the Economic Policy Institute in the 1980s and the American Antitrust Institute in the ’90s) and its celebrated promoters: Buckley equivalents (Thomas Frank, Naomi Klein) as well as the Friedmanesque popular economists Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman, with their Nobels in the 2000s. In the very same week at the beginning of 2011, the centrist Democratic Leadership Council disbanded and the Occupy Wall Street protest was announced. At that moment as well, the star economist Thomas Piketty, French rather than Austrian, was starting to focus people’s attention on the very rich—“transforming the economic discourse,” Krugman has said, especially after his remarkable 2014 bestseller Capital in the Twenty-first Century.

It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir
by Emma Williams
Published 7 Nov 2012

The report concluded that most checkpoints were “not organized to stop hostile elements,” “the checking of cars is done randomly,” and they “harm the Palestinian population by creating friction between soldiers and Palestinians, with the former victimizing the latter.” “Checkpoints don’t work, says internal IDF report,” Ha’aretz 2 November 2001. 4 Naomi Klein, “The Likud doctrine,” Guardian 10 September 2004. 7 In Bethlehem? 1 The PFLP’s victim, Rehavam Ze’evi, was a member of the Israeli government. He held views that many Israelis found repellent: he had headed a political party whose name alone—the Transfer Party—was shocking to many, and he was the foremost exponent in Israel of ethnic cleansing.

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by Brian Merchant
Published 25 Sep 2023

Thanks also to Adrian Randall for reading, discussing, for the exhaustive work on the subject, and for all the delightfully polemical email threads. Thanks to everyone who read early drafts of the book and offered thoughtful ideas, notes, and encouragements: Mike Pearl, Paris Marx, Wendy Liu, Tim Maughan, Edward Ongweso Jr, Jathan Sadowski, Claire L. Evans, and Cory Doctorow. Thanks to Naomi Klein, Farhad Manjoo, Christopher Leonard, Malcolm Harris, Kim Kelly, and Margaret O’Mara for taking the time to dive into this Luddite lore, and for the generous words about the book. An extra special thanks to Elvia Wilk, for the close read and the next-level ideas, suggestions, and edits; thank-you, thank-you.

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
by Peter Marshall
Published 2 Jan 1992

Using the latest information technology, they organize and co-ordinate campaigns of direct action and civil disobedience across the globe. There can be no doubt that as a decentralized, leaderless network of self-organizing and autonomous groups, the international Global Justice Movement is very anarchistic. As Naomi Klein has observed, there is a general consensus that ‘building community-based decision-making power — whether through unions, neighbourhoods, farms, villages, anarchist collectives or aboriginal self-government — is essential to countering the might of the multinational corporations’.68 Anarchists have been involved in the World Social Forums, first held in Porto Alegre in Brazil in 2001, with the slogan ‘Another World is Possible’, and in the first European Social Forum in Florence in 2002, which defined itself as ‘Against the War, Against Racism, Against Neo-liberalism’.

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See also his Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2004) 64 See Benjamin Franks, Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms (Edinburgh: AK Press, 2006); Zerzan, Running on Emptiness, op. cit., p. 162 65 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Continuum, 1999), p. 74 66 See Erlich, ‘How to Get from Here to There: Building Revolutionary Transfer Culture’, Reinventing Anarchy, Again, op. cit., p. 352 67 See Séan M. Sheehan, Anarchism (Reaktion, 2003), pp. 7–12, 150 68 Naomi Klein, ‘Does Protest Need a Vision?’, New Statesman (3 July 2000) 69 In Bill Weinberg, Homage to Chiapas (Verso, 2002), p. 198. See also Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Ya Basta! Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising, ed. Ziga Vodovnik (Edinburgh: AK Press, 2004) 70 In Subcomandante Marcos, Our Word Is Our Weapon, ed.

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
by Lawrence Wright
Published 17 Jan 2013

Electroshock therapy was administered to break the “patterns” of personality; up to 360 shocks were administered in a single month in order to make the subject hyper-suggestible. On top of that, powerful drugs—uppers, downers, and hallucinogens—were fed to the incapacitated patients to increase their disorientation. According to author Naomi Klein, who wrote about these experiments in The Shock Doctrine, when Cameron finally believed he had achieved the desired blank slate, he placed the patients in isolation and played tape-recorded messages of positive reinforcement, such as “You are a good mother and wife and people enjoy your company.”

The Enemy Within
by Seumas Milne
Published 1 Dec 1994

Socialist Review ‘The Enemy Within is a tribute to every NUM member and Women Against Pit Closures activist who has fought over the past decade to save pits and miners’ jobs and to sustain mining communities.’ 1995 NUM Annual Report ‘Part detective thriller and part political primer, The Enemy Within … should be read by every trade unionist.’ NUCPS Journal ‘The definitive account of the strike – the best book on the Thatcher era.’ Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Seumas Milne is a columnist and Associate Editor at the Guardian and the paper’s former Comment Editor. He was previously the Guardian’s Labour Editor and a winner of the What the Papers Say Scoop of the Year Award. He studied economics and politics at Oxford and London universities and worked as a staff journalist on the Economist.

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
by Timothy Ferriss
Published 14 Jun 2017

This book reminded me to have faith at a low point in my life, hence I share it as widely as possible to pull others out of their misery. I was greatly influenced by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in my formative years. I still live my life wide-eyed in childlike wonder. Even though it was heavy for me at 15, I was greatly impacted by Salman Rushdie’s Shame. It made me kinder. Naomi Klein’s No Logo made me reassess consumerism and greed. What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months (or in recent memory)? In my case, it would be buying a pro subscription to my IMDb account, enabling people from all over the world to find me easily.

Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
by Vito Tanzi
Published 28 Dec 2017

It is clear, from Keynes’s other comments in the same essay, that he was comparing the Russian experiment with the American developments in the 1920s, a decade that would end with the disaster of the Great Depression. Economic Role of State between World Wars 29 Keynes’s pessimism about the future of capitalism, as it was practiced in the United States in the 1920s, was obvious. To some extent it anticipated the pessimism expressed by some recent writers, such as, for example, Naomi Klein in some of her books (2007, 2014), as well as several economists, including Piketty in his 2014, bestselling book. In the views of these modern critics and of those who had taken part in the “Occupy Wall Street” movements a few years earlier, modern capitalism is clearly not “leading to a destination far better than our present place” for many people and workers.

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of the Middle Kingdom
by Martin Jacques
Published 12 Nov 2009

Interview with Yu Zengke, Beijing, 22 May 2006. 84 . Zheng Yongnian, Will China Become Democratic?, pp. 198-9, 212. 85 . www.china.org.cn/english/2005/Oct/145718.htm (accessed 15/6/08). 86 . Zheng Yongnian, Will China Become Democratic?, pp. 126-7. 87 . ‘Tiananmen Recedes in Hong Kong’, International Herald Tribune, 5 June 2008. 88 . Naomi Klein, ‘Police State 2.0’, Guardian, 3 June 2008. 89 . Edward Wong, ‘A Bid to Help Poor Rural China Catch Up’, International Herald Tribune, 13 October, 2008; ‘On Solid Ground’, South China Morning Post, 23 February, 2008. 90 . Zheng Yongnian, Will China Become Democratic?, p. 256. 91 . Howard W. French, ‘Letter from China’, International Herald Tribune, 15 June 2006. 92 .

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas E. Ricks
Published 30 Jul 2007

CHAPTER 10: THE CFA: "CAN'T PRODUCE ANYTHING" In writing this chapter I relied heavily on more than thirty oral histories posted on the Web site of the U.S. Institute of Peace. The quotations in this chapter from Kraham, Raphel, Sammons, Coyne, Bachar, Dehgan, and Crandall are from that valuable collection. 203 "my time as an ice cream truck driver": This quotation appeared in Naomi Klein, "Baghdad Year Zero," Harper's (September 2004). 204 "The tour length for most civilians": This comment by Synnott is in his article "State-Building in Southern Iraq," Survival (summer 2005). 207 "Time off for me": Diamond's recollection isfromhis Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books, 2005). 209 "What this means is that for the first nine months": Krohn's memory of his time with the CPA was in his article "The Role of Propaganda in Fighting Terrorism," Army (December 2004).

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Published 15 Nov 2011

The speech of another character, Falsehood, before he is hanged, fills seventy-eight lines with light weights and high prices on offer from the townsmen (with thirty lines thrown in for a thieving shepherd and a “good common thief”): “then all the bakers will I curse / That mixes bread with dust and bran / And fine flour with barley meal,” and “Adieu, ye crafty cordiners, / That sell the shoes over dear,” and so on and so forth, down to Barbara Ehrenreich and Naomi Klein.8 The Elizabethan world picture, and the Great Chain of Being, was a conservative ideology or political rhetoric, which is to say a system of ideas and their expressions supporting those in power. Queen Elizabeth gave a short speech in Latin to the heads of Oxford University on September 28, 1592, ending with “Each and every person is to obey his superior in rank. . . .

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
by Frank Trentmann
Published 1 Dec 2015

Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Chicago, 1776/1976), bk IV, ch. 8, 179. 6. The quotation is from Neal Lawson, ‘Do We Want to Shop or to Be Free?’, Guardian, 3 Aug. 2009, 24. See also: George Monbiot in the Guardian, 26 Nov., 4 Feb. 2015, and 5 Jan. 2010; Lynsey Hanley, ‘Shopping: How It Became Our National Disease’, New Statesman, 18 Sept. 2006. See also: Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York, 1999); Oliver James, Affluenza (London, 2007); and Neal Lawson, All Consuming: How Shopping Got Us into This Mess and How We Can Find Our Way Out (London, 2009). In a more academic vein, see esp. Juliet B. Schor, The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (New York, 1999); Barry Schwartz, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less (New York, 2005); Avner Offer, The Challenge of Affluence: Self-control and Well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (Oxford, 2006); and Zygmunt Bauman, Consuming Life (Cambridge, 2007). 7.