Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is slated to be translated into seventeen languages to date. The six-minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals and a viral phenomenon as well, downloaded over one million times. Klein's previous book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into more than twenty-eight languages, with over a million copies in print. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, was published in 2002. Klein's regular column for The Nation and The Guardian is distributed internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004 her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. The same year, she released a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, The Take, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was an official selection of the Venice Biennale and won the best documentary jury prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles. Klein is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia.

Currently

2007

  • Zapatista Code Red

    December 20, 2007

    Ten years after the massacre of indigenous people in Chiapas, Zapatistas are reading signs that the Mexican government is poised for another wave of repression.

  • Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken

    November 29, 2007

    If you're looking for a sure bet in the new growth market, sell solar and buy surveillance. Forget wind, buy weapons.

  • Latin America's Shock Resistance

    November 8, 2007

    Recent events in the region show how societies can recover from extreme capitalism.

  • Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen

    November 1, 2007

    Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.

  • Greenspan and the Myth of the True Believer

    September 27, 2007

    His autobiography sheds light on what motivates hard-right political leaders to apply brutal economic shock therapy.

  • The Shock Doctrine

    September 18, 2007

    In this VideoNation report, Nation columnist Naomi Klein explains how after 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new security economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined evil.

  • Big Brother Democracy

    August 23, 2007

    Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.

  • Argentina: Where Jobless Run Factories

    July 16, 2007

    Almost entirely under the media radar, unemployed workers here are taking over bankrupt businesses and reopening them under democratic management.

  • Laboratory for a Fortressed World

    June 14, 2007

    Gaza is in chaos, but Israel's economy is booming as high-tech entrepreneurs scramble to meet the post-9/11 world's hunger for spy tools and containment walls.

  • Baghdad Burns, Calgary Booms

    May 31, 2007

    The Iraq War has set off one of the largest oil booms in history--and the race to mine the tar sands of Alberta is heading toward environmental disaster.

  • Sacrificial Wolfie

    May 1, 2007

    The World Bank was corrupt long before Paul Wolfowitz gave his girlfriend a raise.

  • Class War in Conrad's Court

    March 22, 2007

    The jury selection for the trial of a Canadian press baron accused of looting shareholder earnings reveals popular discontent with the corporate elite.

  • A Trial for Thousands Denied Trial

    February 26, 2007

    As Jose Padilla's trial unfolds in Miami, the cruel methods of US interrogators are finally being put on trial.

2006

  • Pay To Be Saved

    August 29, 2006

    Unless something changes soon, New Orleans will prove to be a glimpse of a dystopic future, a future of disaster apartheid in which the wealthy are saved and everyone else is left behind.

2005

  • 'Never Before!' Our Amnesiac Torture Debate

    December 8, 2005

    Does it lessen the horror to admit that this is not the first time the US government has used torture to wipe out political opponents? The exclusion of the impact of the School of the Americas on war crimes in El Salvador, Argentina and Panama from our current debate on torture is evidence of our collective amnesia.

  • The Threat of Hope in Latin America

    November 2, 2005

    Across Latin America indigenous movements redrawing the continent's political map, demanding not just "rights" but a reinvention of the state along deeply democratic lines.

  • GOP Opportunity Zone

    September 23, 2005

  • Purging the Poor

    September 22, 2005

    Why are the poorest victims of Hurricane Katrina being kept out of perfectly livable homes?

  • Doing the Math

    September 20, 2005

  • Let the People Rebuild New Orleans

    September 8, 2005

    Let the evacuees of New Orleans take the lead in determining how the billions of dollars in reconstruction funds are used to rebuild their lives and their city.

  • Terror's Greatest Recruitment Tool

    August 11, 2005

    Though many blame Britain's excessive tolerance for the recent terrorist attacks, the real problem is not too much multiculturalism but too little.

  • Aristide in Exile

    July 14, 2005

    Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide attributes his falling-out with Washington to a disagreement over privatization.

  • A Noose, Not a Bracelet

    June 9, 2005

    The people of Africa, not Western corporations, should benefit from Africa's resources.

  • Letters

    June 8, 2005 Subscribe

  • Torture's Dirty Secret: It Works

    May 12, 2005

    When it comes to social control, nothing works quite like torture.

  • The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

    April 14, 2005

    Rebuilding is no longer the primary purpose of the reconstruction industry.

  • Letters

    April 7, 2005 Subscribe

  • Can Democracy Survive Bush's Embrace?

    March 9, 2005

  • Getting the Purple Finger

    February 10, 2005

2004

2003

2002

  • The New Apartheid

    November 26, 2002

  • Booby Traps at Rio + 10

    August 29, 2002

    The summit didn't fail because of anything that happened in Johannesburg. It failed because the entire process was booby-trapped from the start.

2001

  • Signs of the Times

    October 4, 2001

    Protests aimed at powerful symbols of capitalism find themselves in a transformed landscape.

  • Game Over

    September 17, 2001

  • A Fete for the End of the End of History

    March 1, 2001

    If Seattle was the coming-out party of a resistance movement, then Porto Alegre heralded the beginning of serious thinking about alternatives.

2000

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