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La stratégie du choc. Naomi Klein "The Shock Doctrine" & "No Logo" interview. The Shock Doctrine. In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically.

The Shock Doctrine

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…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater….

After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. Naomi Klein vs. Alan Greenspan on Inequality.