Shock Doctrine

La stratégie du choc : la montée d’un capitalisme du désastre - www.la-bas.org Médias et politiques sont déconcertés par un mouvement inédit, impulsé par la jeunesse des classes moyennes, une vague de fond anticapitaliste et libertaire, qui attaque les fondements de la société américaine. Après les avoir regardé de haut, pressés par une opinion publique majoritairement favorable au mouvement contestataire, les médias prennent désormais celui-ci au sérieux. Si certains, comme le célèbre blogueur John Hawkins, sur le site du Huffington Post, continuent à confondre les Indignés avec une bande de « hippies », l’hebdomadaire The Week se demande si « Occupy Wall Street » fait émerger un « Tea Party de gauche ». Le fameux Tea Party a d’ailleurs pris un coup de vieux et certains de ses membres vont même jusqu’à apporter leur soutien aux Indignés, espérant ainsi surfer sur la vague contestataire. « Je comprends la colère qui s’exprime dans ces manifestations » s’est senti obligé de dire Obama dans un entretien à la télévision. Noam Chomsky : « C’est sans précédent. »

La stratégie du choc / Michael Winterbottom et Mat Whitecross, d’après Naomi Klein at Le silence qui parle Suite à la publication, en 2007, de la Stratégie du choc écrit par Naomi Klein, Michael Winterbottom et Mat Whitecross décident de tourner ce documentaire à l’aide de nombreuses images d’archive. Le texte original reprend la méthode de « traitement de choc » de l’économiste Milton Friedman selon qui il fallait imposer des réformes économiques douloureuses avant que les gens n’aient pu se remettre de la crise : ainsi, ils l’accepteraient plus facilement. Naomi Klein l’a nommée « stratégie du choc ». Après un choc, chaque individu est plongé dans un état de fragilité et redevient comme un enfant, enclin à suivre un chef politique qui dit vouloir le protéger. la Stratégie du choc / 2010 A lire également :

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism was Klein's third book, first published in 2007. It became an international and a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 20 languages. The book sought to explode the belief that free markets went hand in hand with democracy. Klein asserted that deregulated capitalism had consistently been forced upon vulnerable people to suit alliances of big governments and big businesses, who exploited moments of disaster and trauma, such as the Falklands War and Hurricane Katrina, to make commercial gains. Not in my name: Klein disowns Winterbottom adaptation - TV & Rad

Clarification on "Shock Doctrine" Documentary | Naomi Klein I am getting many requests to respond to an article that appeared in the Independent reporting that I “disowned” The Shock Doctrine documentary that will air on More4 in the United Kingdom on Sept 1. A few important points of clarification. I don’t have a credit on The Shock Doctrine documentary made by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross because it is not my film. I chose not to make the documentary myself because when I finished the book I had been utterly immersed in the material for five years and I believed the project would benefit from a fresh perspective. However, I did think the material in the book was so inherently visual and emotional that it had great potential for film.

Around the world, government is seen as the last hope to stimulate a comatose economy. In California, anti-tax, anti-spending, and anti-government sentiments are converging: California is facing a de-stimulus package of epic proportions. Watch both parts of my half-hour documentary below, and check out AJE live, 24 hours day, at livestation.com . What we discovered (beyond some priceless video of Arnold Schwarzenegger introducing Milton Friedman’s TV series on PBS in 1990 , is that thanks to the quirks of California’s system, the state is a Petri dish for some of the most virulent strains of American political culture. Fault Lines, California: Failed State, Part 1: I just spent a week in LA and Sacramento filming a documentary on the crisis for Fault Lines, the show I co-host on Al Jazeera English Television . Video: Schwarzenegger’s Shock Therapy--The Poor Pay For The Sins

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Record numbers go hungry in households in the US | World news | The principal cause is unemployment, which has risen past 10%, as well as increasing numbers of people who have had their hours cut back or been forced in to minimum wage jobs. Even before the recent economic collapse many working people were struggling to meet rising living costs, such as those who drive long distances to their jobs in rural states who were hit by the rising cost of fuel. Feeding America said 40%of the people it helps live in families with at least one working adult. "Our network food banks are calling us every day, telling us that demand for emergency food is higher than it has ever been in our history," said Escarra. Charities say that many of those who fall into financial difficulties take years to get back on their feet and so the problem is likely to persist for years.

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In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE , 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. At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klei

In one of his most influential essays, Friedman articulated contemporary capitalism's core tactical nostrum, what I have come to understand as "the shock doctrine". He observed that "only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change". When that crisis occurs, the actions taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. The Shock Doctrine: An Excerpt From the Introduction | Naomi Kle