Naomi Klein responds to recent attacks on her book, The Shock Doctrine, by Friedmanite apologists. Having read the book, I agree that the bulk of the criticism, from the CATO Institute and the New Republic, misinterpret what is written for ideological purposes and selectively and needlessly quote the late Dr. Friedman.
It is clear that the [...]
The Real News Network is releasing a series of interviews with Naomi Klein on China and the Olympics. In the first, she says:
I think this is an incredibly efficient, actually, a scarily efficient way of organizing society that’s actually being celebrated here, which is a hybrid of some of the worst elements of authoritarian [...]
With the weather so nice, I hung around outside instead of blogging this weekend. Terrible, I know.
So, here’s an update on some books I’m reading right now.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software - Stephen Johnson
The New City: How the crisis in Canada’s urban centres is reshaping the nation - John [...]
“Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear,” Naomi Klein writes in The Nation. Recent “attacks” from Clinton and others to his right have assumed that showing a picture of him in Muslim dress would damage his campaign. Klein clearly challenges this position, and challenges Obama to use the charge to ignite a debate. [...]