Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, a syndicated columnist, and the author of the bestsellers "No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies" and "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism." She lives in Montreal, Quebec.
"Naomi Klein is one of the most important new voices in American
journalism today."
--Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist
"Naomi Klein's exposé of neo-liberal economics is certain to be
sensational. She rips away the 'free trade' and globalization
ideologies that disguise a conspiracy to privatize war and disaster
and grab public property for the rich few. She is brilliant on the
malevolent influence of Milton Friedman and the University of
Chicago's Economics Department in promoting global privatization.
She offers an excellent explanation for the failure to repair New
Orleans after Katrina. Hers is a long-needed analysis of our
headlong flight back to feudalism under the guise of social science
and 'freedom.'"
--Chalmers Johnson, author of the Blowback Trilogy (on the book)
"Naomi Klein is an investigative reporter like no other. She roams
the continents with eyes wide open and her brain operating at full
speed, finding connections we never thought of, and patterns which
eluded us. She shows us, in clear and elegant language, how
catastrophes--natural ones like Katrina, unnatural ones like
war--become opportunities for a savage capitalism, calling itself
'the free market, ' to privatize everything in sight, bringing huge
profits to some, misery for others. To ensure the safety of such a
system, it becomes necessary to constrict freedom, to assault human
rights. The torture chambers for some then match the torturing of
the larger society."
--Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
(on the book)
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