Showing posts with label Naomi Klein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Naomi Klein. Show all posts

Monday, December 8, 2008

Naomi Klein Breaks Down the Bailout

Nation magazine columnist Naomi Klein speaks at a Nation/Brecht Forum event about the financial crisis. She offers some blunt advice to Barack Obama ("Larry Summers and Bob Rubin have got to go") and one big proposal: Nationalize Exxon.



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Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism

Nation columnist Naomi Klein explores a key argument from her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: After 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined notion of evil. Read more in her 2005 Nation column "The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."



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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Naomi Klein: The Borderline Illegal Deals Behind the $700 Billion Bailout

We've been had. The bailout is all a lie...
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. Posted November 18, 2008...
The bailout is a parting gift to the people that George Bush once referred to jokingly as "my base."
Amy Goodman: World leaders from nearly two dozen countries met in Washington over the weekend to discuss plans to increase regulation of international financial activity. They acknowledged that a failure of market oversight in countries like the United States had precipitated the financial crisis.

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