January 20, 2010

Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein, whose book The Shock Doctrine talks about disaster capitalism, spoke for Democracy Now last week about what needs to be done in Haiti.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsGDP-yfduo[/youtube]Her comments starting at 3:30 have a lot of impact. We cannot use this disaster in Haiti as a smoke screen for support of our corporate culture in the United States. Grants, not loans, will help this already impoverished and now devastated country.

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