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In The Guardian UK, Naomi Klein says, "What [is] happening in Iraq and New Orleans was not a post-September 11 invention. Rather, these bold experiments in crisis exploitation were the culmination of three decades of strict adherence to the shock doctrine."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090807A.shtml

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THE SHOCK DOCTRINE - Have you heard of "Year Zero." It's essentially the idea of a totally fresh start. But it has shown up in grotesquely twisted form referring to the creation a harsh free-market economic mechanism in a society that would otherwise reject it, but has been damaged or destroyed by natural disaster or military attack? The more destruction, the easier the makeover.

http://www.nhne.org/news/NewsArticlesArchive/tabid/400/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3647/The-Shock-Doctrine.aspx

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The end of the world as we know it
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2169201,00.html

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Naomi Klein on the Shock Doctrine

In a wide-ranging interview with Truthout's Geoffrey Millard, bestselling author and investigative journalist Naomi Klein discusses the catastrophic failures that have ensued from the free-market reforms that have spread throughout the world over the past few decades. Klein explains that the rise in "disaster capitalism" is also leading to an increase in worldwide violence that will only get worse. She refers to the issue as "The Shock Doctrine," which is also the title of her groundbreaking new book.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122807J.shtml

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One Year After the Publication of The Shock Doctrine, A Response to the Attacks
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/09/02-7



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