NAOMI KLEIN
“What we have been living for three decades is frontier capitalism, with the frontier constantly shifting location from crisis to crisis, moving on as soon as the law catches up. ”
“It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.”
“This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism’s single most damaging legacy: the realization of its bleak vision has isolated us enough from one another that it became possible to convince us that we are not just incapable of self-preservation but fundamentally not worth saving.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”
“Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.”
Social activist/film maker. Exposes how giant global corporations' operate in wars, natural disasters and financial crises.
Climate activist
From a family with a history of peace activism
Changed at the age of 17 from a 'spoilt brat' obsessed with brands and shopping after her mother became severely ill.
The massacre at the University of Monreal of female engineering students had a profound effect on Klein and changed her views and sparked her passion for taking on subjects such as women's rights, racism, rape and capitalism.
A university drop out in her third year to work in journalism.
She was a determined activist in the 1980s fighting for reform in gender equality despite rape and death threats.
She tried university again but managed to get an internship in journalism eventually working for the Guardian.
No Logo (2000)
A manifesto for the anti-corporate globalization movement
1 million copies sold. Highly critical of corporations' exploitation of workers in poorer countries, including severe criticism of Nike.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
New York Times best seller
Thesis is that large corporations profit from disasters, economic, natural, war etc.
Public schools privatized after hurricane Katrina destroyed most of the schools
Private security companies profited from the Iraq invasion
This creates huge financial inequality
She has become the modern face of the political left's movement against global capitalism and is often seen as an intellectual authority on these issues, often giving lectures and speeches, promoting an alternative vision to the current political status quo.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster
Initially it was interesting reading some of Naomi Klein's articles, the corporate profit making of natural disasters and war in particular are truly shocking and sad. However, as much as I am disgusted by the way large corporations and governments operate, I don't feel I have an active passion for these areas or at least to keep me going through level 5.
It's really alarming to hear how big corporations operate and how sinister governments can be but I feel these subject will not inspire me as I have grown exasperated with the global political climate and may lose the will to live if I read more about the way these psychopaths and morons run the world. I want an author who has more politically neutral work.
Social activist/film maker. Exposes how giant global corporations' operate in wars, natural disasters and financial crises.
Climate activist
From a family with a history of peace activism
Changed at the age of 17 from a 'spoilt brat' obsessed with brands and shopping after her mother became severely ill.
The massacre at the University of Monreal of female engineering students had a profound effect on Klein and changed her views and sparked her passion for taking on subjects such as women's rights, racism, rape and capitalism.
A university drop out in her third year to work in journalism.
She was a determined activist in the 1980s fighting for reform in gender equality despite rape and death threats.
She tried university again but managed to get an internship in journalism eventually working for the Guardian.
No Logo (2000)
A manifesto for the anti-corporate globalization movement
1 million copies sold. Highly critical of corporations' exploitation of workers in poorer countries, including severe criticism of Nike.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
New York Times best seller
Thesis is that large corporations profit from disasters, economic, natural, war etc.
Public schools privatized after hurricane Katrina destroyed most of the schools
Private security companies profited from the Iraq invasion
This creates huge financial inequality
She has become the modern face of the political left's movement against global capitalism and is often seen as an intellectual authority on these issues, often giving lectures and speeches, promoting an alternative vision to the current political status quo.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster
Initially it was interesting reading some of Naomi Klein's articles, the corporate profit making of natural disasters and war in particular are truly shocking and sad. However, as much as I am disgusted by the way large corporations and governments operate, I don't feel I have an active passion for these areas or at least to keep me going through level 5.
It's really alarming to hear how big corporations operate and how sinister governments can be but I feel these subject will not inspire me as I have grown exasperated with the global political climate and may lose the will to live if I read more about the way these psychopaths and morons run the world. I want an author who has more politically neutral work.
