The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Beginning with a short film that illustrates the concepts of her new book, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. What has been done in other countries may happen in the U.S. next. Katrina was the test run. Be on the alert for the next great disaster to be used for the violent imposition of their agenda. Klein sites four examples from recent history: Chile after the coup by Pinochet, Thacher's privatization of Great Britain during the Falklands war, China after the Tienanmen square massacre, and Boris Yeltsin's attack on the Russian parliament. Klein urges us to become "shock resistant". Download Intro - Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6.