"Infomercial" from youtube for the book, covers the basics:
main site's overview of reviews for the book:http://www.naomiklei...octrine/reviews
Quote from the daily telegraph :
In its most primitive form, this "doctrine" refers to the practice of seeking out wars and natural disasters and, then, while the locals are too shellshocked to protest, clearing a route for multinational companies. Today, however, the doctrine is more refined: its adherents engineer catastrophes.
This she terms "disaster capitalism"; she argues that it has led to the rise of a new kind of multinational that covers all the security, intelligence and war-fighting roles that were once the monopoly of the state. In short, we are seeing the rise of an international gangster class, intent on making cash from chaos.
Iraq is not a flop: it is what it is supposed to be. As Klein says: "When the same mistakes are repeated over and over again, it's time to consider the possibility that they are not mistakes at all."
So yeah, this is what we will get with a totally free market, corporations acting like kings and emperors. Dancing around rules by shocking the people and distracting them from noticing that hard-won rights are being re-written so that they can get more money than they deserve by forcing you into poverty and chaos.
the problem in society today is that the ones with power are the ones with money, and the ones with money are the ones who likes this kinda thing. where lobbying is king and money is the way of life, how are you supposed to be able to get such a topic up into the rings of power, and how can you trust them to do something about it? how can you change a global system that allows the ones with money to get less money? theres practically no way of doing it without uprooting everything, which might be very painful.