Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023
just off Wall Street in Manhattan. I was about to open the door when I heard two women talking about me. “Did you see what Naomi Klein said?” I froze, flashing back to every mean girl in high school, pre-humiliated. What had I said? “Something about how the march today is
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gown, a melee documented by a bank of cameras. This is what the women in the bathroom were referring to when they talked about how “Naomi Klein” did not understand their demands. I had paid only peripheral attention to Wolf’s antics as they unfolded—they were just one of many bizarre
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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
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traced to “a very highly followed influencer in what we call the pseudo-medical community”: Naomi Wolf. Or, for those reading a little too fast: Naomi Klein. * * * This flurry of activity by Other Naomi during the Covid era meant that the stakes of getting confused with her had become significantly higher than
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Naomi had said now but equally delighted in the prospect that I would get at least some of the credit/blame (“Thoughts and prayers to Naomi Klein”). We were a pastime for profoundly bored people addicted to dopamine hits from our machines. It was giving people not pleasure exactly, but something synthetically
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warned about in my books. “I think she’s been got at!” someone whose handle is “RickyBaby321” said of me, telling Wolf, “I have relegated Naomi Klein to the position of being: ‘The Other Naomi’!” It’s a vertiginous thing to be harangued on social media about your alleged misunderstanding of your
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than once, someone typed: “OMG. I just now realized they are not the same person.” Or: “TIR [today I realized] that Naomi Wolf is not Naomi Klein and honestly things make a bit more sense now.” Someone else claimed The Shock Doctrine was “One of the most informative books written” and that
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utterly confused by Wolf’s actions because he had been attributing them to me the whole time. The problem, as he saw it, was obvious: “Naomi Klein should sue for trademark dilution and brand harm.” In short, according to Hon, my brand was in crisis. I looked for a current definition of
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unlikely … five years ago, the idea that you and I would be breaking bread … I sort of bracketed you with the other Naomi—you know, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, what’s the difference?” (Insert silent scream from me.) He went on: “And now, here we are. I mean, I think we are
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, a columnist for The Nation and an avid Wolf watcher, wrote after one of her more egregious streaks of Covid misinformation, “At this point, confusing Naomi Klein with Naomi Wolf is just anti-Semitism. I’m sorry, I don’t make the rules. Your brain should be able to handle more than
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way”: Jules Gleeson, “Judith Butler: ‘We Need to Rethink the Category of Woman,’” The Guardian, September 7, 2021. 1. Occupied You could look it up: Naomi Klein, “Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now,” The Nation, October 6, 2011. “I found out what it was”: Naomi Wolf, “The
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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
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(New International Version). “Where you go, I will go”: Ruth 1:16 (New International Version). 3. My Failed Brand, or Call Me by Her Name “Naomi Klein should sue”: Dan Hon @hondanhon, tweet, May 8, 2021, Twitter. “Stretching Capacity Too Thin”: “Brand Dilution: Definition, Causes and Examples,” MediaValet, March 2, 2021. “likely
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YouTube, March 30, 2021. “reason” and “democracy”: The Great Dictator, at 2:02:40. 8. Ridiculously Serious, Seriously Speechless cache of leaked Carlyle Group documents: Naomi Klein, “James Baker’s Double Life,” The Nation, October 12, 2004. “They tried to implement this doctrine of shock”: Alexis Tsipras and Slavoj Žižek, “The Role
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Who Became a Conspiracy Theorist—She’s a Conspiracist Who Was Once Right,” New Statesman, October 7, 2014. “There has been a distinct warming up”: Naomi Klein, “Screen New Deal,” The Intercept, May 8, 2020. “CEO of a tech company”: “Watch Dr Naomi Wolf Discuss ‘Why Vaccine Passports Equal Slavery Forever,’” DailyClout
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last thing”: George Manuel and Michael Posluns, The Fourth World: An Indian Reality (Don Mills, Ontario: Collier-Macmillan Canada, 1974), 65. “They stole the children”: Naomi Klein, “Stealing Children to Steal the Land,” The Intercept, June 16, 2021. “be honest with ourselves about our history”: Justin Trudeau, “Trudeau Says Canadians ‘Must Be
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, Socialism or Barbarism: Selected Writings, ed. Paul Le Blanc and Helen C. Scott (London: Pluto, 2010). “when I think of the land as my mother”: Naomi Klein, “Dancing the World into Being: A Conversation with Idle No More’s Leanne Simpson,” Yes Magazine, March 6, 2013. “precarious, dependent”: Sunaura Taylor, “Age of
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el-Fattah) Young Karl Marx, The Youngkin, Glenn YouTube; Wolf’s “slavery forever” video on Zionism Žižek, Slavoj zozobra Zuboff, Shoshana Zuckerberg, Mark Also by Naomi Klein No Logo Fences and Windows The Shock Doctrine This Changes Everything No Is Not Enough The Battle for Paradise On Fire How to Change Everything
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A Note About the Author Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and a New York Times bestselling author of books including No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes
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FOUR: FACING THE REAL 15. Unselfing Epilogue: Who Is the Double? Notes Acknowledgments Index Also by Naomi Klein A Note About the Author Copyright Farrar, Straus and Giroux 120 Broadway, New York 10271 Copyright © 2023 by Naomi Klein All rights reserved First edition, 2023 Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint a stanza
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein · 12 Jun 2017 · 357pp · 94,852 words
Copyright © 2017 Naomi Klein Published in 2017 in the United States by Haymarket Books, and simultaneously in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House Canada
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” Kellyanne Conway, tweet, posted by @KellyannePolls, January 27, 2017, https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls/status/825358733945475073. Halina Bortnowska: “the difference between dog years and human years…” Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 217. Donald Trump: “torture works” Arlette Saenz, “President Trump Tells ABC
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, tweet, posted by @realDonaldTrump, January 25, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/824080766288228352?lang=en. César Aira: “Any change is a change in the topic” Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007). UK’s Conservative government: become a tax haven for all of
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and Spending Cuts Needed,” BBC.com, June 23, 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36647006. Donald Rumsfeld: “Milton is the embodiment…” Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 138. PART I – HOW WE GOT HERE: RISE OF THE SUPERBRANDS
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, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-union-leaders-labor-secretary-2017-2. Labor leaders, representing around a quarter of all unionized workers in the US Naomi Klein, “Labor Leaders’ Cheap Deal with Trump,” New York Times, February 7, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/opinion/labor-leaders-cheap-deal-with
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-trades-activists-stand-trump. Remembering a Powerful Global Movement July 2001: roughly 300,000 people were on the streets of Genoa during a G8 meeting Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 236. Cochabamba and Bechtel: “water war” Emily Achtenberg, “From Water Wars
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economy scream” Peter Kornbluh, “Kissinger and Chile: The Declassified Record,” National Security Archive, George Washington University, September 11, 2013. Friedman: “shock treatment” approach to economics Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 94. Eduardo Galeano: “How can this inequality…” Eduardo Galeano, Days and
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, http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/resources/part7/chapter20/pro-market-ideas-katrina. 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
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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
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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. In November 2005, the Republican-controlled Congress announced that it
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needed to cut $40 billion from the federal budget… Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 496. Disastrous response to Katrina sparked an approval ratings free fall
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for the Super-Rich,” New Yorker, January 30, 2017, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-rich. Help Jet Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 499. Manhattan condominium: “submarine-style” Julie Satow, “The Generator Is the
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.html. “Wildfire Protection Unit,” American International Group, Inc., accessed April 16, 2017, https://www-200.aigprivateclient.com/index.php?Page=wildfire-protection-how-it-works. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), 52. California wildfire fighting: inmates California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, “Conservation (Fire
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, “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
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/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
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-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
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…” 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
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Fire: People’s Rebellion Facing the Deep Crisis of the Neoliberal Market Economy,” Democracy & Nature 8, no. 2 (2002): 331–35. Argentina: 250 “asambleas barriales” Naomi Klein, “Out of the Ordinary (Part Two),” Guardian, January 25, 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/25/argentina.weekend72. When Spain Said No March
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.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/21/dakota-access-pipeline-ing-sells-stake-loan-standing-rock. Tokata Iron Eyes: “Like I have my future back” Naomi Klein, “The Lesson from Standing Rock: Organizing and Resistance Can Win,” Nation, December 4, 2016, https://www.thenation.com/article/the-lesson-from-standing-rock-organizing
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://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2016/02/05/take-the-leap-manifesto/. Energy Reparations Roughly half of Germany’s renewable energy facilities are community controlled Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2014), 131. Denmark in 2000: 85 percent of wind turbines owned by small players International Renewable Energy
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.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/leap-manifesto-gets-poor-marks-for-timing-and-content-otherwise-fine/article26373885/. “National suicide” Conrad Black, “Conrad Black: Few Will Support Naomi Klein’s Revolution, Thankfully Sparing Us from National Suicide,” National Post (Toronto), September 19, 2015, http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/conrad-black-few-will-support
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-naomi-kleins-revolution-thankfully-sparing-us-from-national-suicide. National poll on Leap: majority of Liberals, NDPs, Greens; 20 percent of Conservatives EKOS Politics, “Wise Crowds and
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/wise-crowds-and-the-future/. Utopia—Back by Popular Demand Alicia Garza: “whether it be Occupy Wall Street…” “Inauguration 2017 Special Coverage w/ Angela Davis, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader & More,” transcript of live video coverage, Democracy Now!, January 20, 2017, https://www.democracynow.org/live/inauguration_2017_live_coverage. Vision for Black
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are for patient little Toma, who missed his mom over these last months, but feels strongly that, “Donald Trump is too rude to be president.” NAOMI KLEIN is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, documentary filmmaker and author of the international bestsellers No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, The Shock
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein · 15 Sep 2014 · 829pp · 229,566 words
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
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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
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.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
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://www.nature.org. 18. “Consolidated Financial Statements,” Nature Conservancy, June 30, 2012, pp. 20-21; “Consolidated Financial Statements,” Nature Conservancy, June 30, 2013, p. 21; Naomi Klein, “Time for Big Green to Go Fossil Free,” The Nation, May 1, 2013; FOOTNOTE: Mark Tercek email communication to senior managers, August 19, 2013. 19
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. 31, http://www.edf.org. DONATION POLICY: “Corporate Donation Policy,” How We Work, Environmental Defense Fund, http://www.edf.org; “WOULD UNDERMINE”: Eric Pooley, “Viewpoint: Naomi Klein’s Criticism of Environmental Groups Missed the Mark,” Climate Progress, September 11, 2013; Michelle Harvey, “Working Toward Sustainability with Walmart,” Environmental Defense Fund, September 18
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, Say MEPs,” European Parliament, press release, November 21, 2012. 35. Andrea Schmidt, “Heirs of Anti-Apartheid Movement Rise Up,” Al Jazeera, December 15, 2013. 36. Naomi Klein, “Time for Big Green to Go Fossil Free,” The Nation, May 1, 2013; “Commitments,” Fossil Free, 350.org, http://gofossilfree.org; “Stanford to Divest from
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zero-waste design, 16 Zimbabwe, famine in, 272 Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2014 by Naomi Klein All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Simon & Schuster Subsidiary Rights Department
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.simonspeakers.com. Interior design by Joy O’Meara Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Klein, Naomi, 1970– This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate / Naomi Klein.—First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Environmental economics. 2. Environmental policy—Economic aspects. 3. Climatic changes—Economic aspects
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
by Stephen Graham · 30 Oct 2009 · 717pp · 150,288 words
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
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, ‘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
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the disposal or warehousing of capitalism’s surplus humanity are the places where exemplars for securocratic warfare are ‘concretely being assembled, tried, and tested’.93 Naomi Klein has argued that Israel’s experiments in incarcerating the entire population of Gaza and the West Bank serve a similar role.94 In the Indian
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. 110 Phil Agre, ‘Your Face Is Not a Bar Code: Arguments Against Automatic Face Recognition in Public Places’, Whole Earth 106, 2001, 74–77. 111 Naomi Klein, ‘Police State 2.0’, Guardian, 3 June 2008. 112 Cited in Ian Brown, Privacy & Law Enforcement, report for the UK Information Commissioner Study Project, 2007
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challenges of Israel are the security concerns of the United States writ small.42 A central component of the high-tech renaissance of Israel – what Naomi Klein has called the ‘standing disaster Apartheid state’43 – has been the gradual convergence between US military doctrine in post-invasion Iraq and the established Israeli
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branding of the new techniques and technologies of urban militarization have been a major selling point. ‘Many of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs’, observes Naomi Klein, ‘[are now] using Israel’s status as a fortressed state, surrounded by furious enemies, as a kind of twenty-four-hour-a-day showroom – a
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to the rhetoric of both Israel and the US, these exemplars of new military urbanism are not being mobilized to win a war. Rather, as Naomi Klein argues, their generalization and circulation serve primarily to underpin a new political-economic structure she labels the ‘disaster capitalism complex’.125 Such a constellation thrives
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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
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-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
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the survival of urbanites but rather to smooth the way for the installation of client régimes. Certainly, intact infrastructures greatly facilitate the imposition of what Naomi Klein calls the ‘shock doctrine’, now so central to neoliberal capitalism: a political economy which preys on and consumes geographies, resources and countries in the aftermath
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R. Barber · 1 Jan 2007 · 498pp · 145,708 words
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
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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
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(how it sells its products) represents a remarkable step forward, one requiring targeting and infantilizing consumers in a fashion utterly foreign to productivist capitalism. While Naomi Klein points amusingly to what she calls the “deep New Age streak” of the corporate world, much more is at stake than tree hugging and whale
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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
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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
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that it trivializes the logoed item itself: Don’t worry about what we’re selling, just buy the symbol we’ve stamped on it.”73 Naomi Klein has also been a critic, arguing that playing the marketing game in the name of antimarketing still expands the crowded and homogenizing space where marketing
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life in youthful good health” (from the website www.cryonics.org). 48. Chip Walker, “Can TV Save the Planet?” American Demographics, May 1996, cited in Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador, 2000), p. 119. 49. Klein, No Logo, p. 115. 50. A blurb from Helen
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Venture, 2000), p. 54. 9. Marc Gobé, Emotional Branding: The New Paradigm for Connecting Brands to People (New York: Allworth Press, 2001), p. xiv. 10. Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador, 2000), p. 120. 11. Shawn Carkonen, Amazon editorial review of David Brooks, Bobos in
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for $3.8 billion in August 2005, in the hope that the merger might challenge Nike (and LeBron James) for a larger market share. 45. Naomi Klein quotes ad executives Sam Hill, Jack McGrath, and Sandeep Dayal as arguing that their research proves “You can indeed brand not only sand, but also
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. Actually, the Business for Diplomatic Action/McNeel spin is more or less the same as America’s spin, and has had little impact. See also Naomi Klein, “Can Democracy Survive Bush’s Embrace?” The Nation, March 28, 2005. 102. Gobé, Citizen Brand, p. 230. Gobé cites as examples Verizon’s post-9
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, when marketed in this way, become common fashions. The result is less variety rather than more. 77. A Canadian department store advertising slogan, cited by Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (New York: Picador, 2000), p. 119. 78. Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, p. 121. 79. The
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the ideology of the swoosh, which assumes that there is no better way to express ourselves than through the logos we choose (or reject)?” 74. Naomi Klein, quoted in William MacDougall, “Just Screw It!: Adbusters takes on the might of Nike,” Seven Oaks magazine, March 29, 2004. 75. Lasn, Culture Jam, p
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill · 1 Jan 2007 · 924pp · 198,159 words
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
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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
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transnational corporations. The division was called Crisis Consulting Practice and offered companies “total counterterrorism services.” To sell this expensive insurance to U.S. corporations, wrote Naomi Klein in The Nation, “Bremer had to make the kinds of frank links between terrorism and the failing global economy that activists are called lunatics for
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was not confined to his religion. Upon his arrival, he moved swiftly to begin building the neoconservative vision in Iraq, ushering in a period that Naomi Klein labeled “Baghdad Year Zero.” True to form, after just two weeks in the country, Bremer declared that Iraq was “open for business.”39 The centerpiece
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happened. Thanks again to Garrett Ordower for everything. Gratitude to my friend and agent Anthony Arnove, who has believed in my work since we met. Naomi Klein for her undying friendship, solidarity, and support. Thank you to Daniela Crespo for her support. My compañeros Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Ana Nogueira, Carmen Trotta, and
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. 188 Senate Lobbying Records. 189. Author interview, February 2008. 190 Donald Bartlett and James Steele, “Washington’s $8 Billion Shadow,” Vanity Fair, March 2007. 191 Naomi Klein, “Outsourcing Government,” Los Angeles Times, October 20, 2007. 192 Author interview, July 2007. 193 Jeremy Scahill, “All Cowboys Out Now,” The Nation, November 26, 2007
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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
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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
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Year in Iraq, Bremer describes Defense Secretary Rumsfeld as giving him his “marching orders” regarding de-Baathification with Feith doing the groundwork, p. 39. 21 Naomi Klein, “Baghdad Year Zero,” Harper’s, September 2004. 22 Lara Marlowe, “Mission Impossible,” Irish Times, April 17, 2004. 23 Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near, p. 152
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Visit With Ambassador and Mrs. Bremer,” June 27, 2006. 38 Mark Zimmermann, “Iraq Envoy Says Faith Gives Him Strength,” Catholic Standard, June 19, 2003. 39 Naomi Klein, “Baghdad Year Zero,” Harper’s, September 2004. 40 Ibid. 41 Jeff Madrick, “Economic Scene; The Economic Plan for Iraq Seems Long on Ideology, Short on
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words
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
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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
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, 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
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
by Tony Weis and Joshua Kahn Russell · 14 Oct 2014 · 501pp · 134,867 words
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
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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
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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
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easier to balance a bicycle once it was already in motion. By combining some elbow grease with the vision of 350.org board members like Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben, we were able to garner support from some big-name public intellectuals, celebrity advocates, movement leaders, and scientists, like Maude Barlow, Wendell
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that given a sense of urgency, with all of the information on the table, and the media interest towards our spokespeople like Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein, participants could be fully engaged and prepared for the action. They knew they may need an extra day off work, in case they were held
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an end to what Native American activist, author, and vice-presidential candidate Winona LaDuke has described as “predator economics,”1 and what activist and author Naomi Klein rightfully describes as “shock doctrine” economics.2 Little did I know that all of these experiences were preparing me for what would be one of
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election, the president began talking green again, promising that now climate change would be a priority—but this growing resistance is, I think, unconvinced. As Naomi Klein has warned, Obama’s first term must be a lesson to all activists that the appearance of a progressive leader should not lull us into
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Economics, Human Rights, and Indigenous Peoples” at NYU, November 13, 2013, www.law.nyu.edu/news/winona-laduke-delivers-the-20th-annual-sheinberg-lecture. 2. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2007). 3. James Cameron, Tar Sands Press Conference, September 29, 2010, www.youtube.com
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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
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-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
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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
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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
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. 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
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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
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. tending toward more engagement: You can see this in how quite radical thinkers about the environment and our obligations to it, from Jedediah Purdy to Naomi Klein, focus so intently on the problems of political action. In Purdy’s After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2015
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what it’s worth—I nod my head in recognition when I read Kate Marvel calling for courage rather than hope, and when I read Naomi Klein rhapsodizing about a community of political resistance growing out of the local sites of protests she calls “Blockadia.” I believe, as Purdy does, that the
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