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The definition of Journalism: This is what our newspapers should have reported.

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When I purchased this book, there were reviews here on Amazon that slated it. I question the motive for these reviews, as no one can read this book and doubt her understanding of capitalism, and her inexhaustible research defies any claim of a "rant". This book shows the readers what the powers that be distracted the public from. I would recommend everyone reads this book, as this book deserves to be read, not just from the calibre of the writing, the construction of its message, and the depth of the research's scouring; but from the sheer magnitude of the crimes, and that comprehending the means enables this virus's vaccination. A standard of journalism worthy of Chomsky.

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This is a wonderfully readable, depressing, and very persuasive account. It's not a rant. Highly recommended.

Everyone should read this book

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I had not expected Klein's book to be this good. We learn a lot here about how the Chicago School of Economics (as pioneered by Milton Friedman) has been responsible for some of the most atrocious political crimes of the last 4 decades. Crimes that were committed not only against the body politic of developing nations but also the bodies of human beings tortured under dictatorships. Everyone who doubts that America has blood on its hands for its interference in world affairs (e.g. Chile, Iran, Russia, Argentina) needs to open their eyes. Democracy and Free Markets do not go hand-in-hand as Bush and the Neo-Cons would have you believe, but quite the opposite: wherever Chicago economists have sought to imopose their brand of capitalism it has been enforced with blood.

An uproarious wake up call!

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It's the economy, stupid. Do you have any idea of how much terror represents as a business?. Well, I didn't. After the economic "e-bubble" ended some years ago, the option at hand to push the economy was terror... In this latest, well documented N. Klein's book, beginning in Montreal with the CIA's mind experiments back in the 50's, you'll be taken by the hand in tour from the University of Chicago campus to Buenos Aires, Santiago, La Paz, Caracas, New Orleans, New York, Beirut, Tel Aviv, etc. and to practically every place on Earth, that from those days, has represented an opportunity to put into practice what the author calls the "destruction capitalism" practices or M. Friedman's ideas on how to end (once and for all) with keynisian economics in the world, thanks to natural or man's created catastrophes. An interesting interpretation to the most significant economic, political, social, cultural, etc. events in our world for the past 50 or 60 years... and a brilliant analogy between 1950's CIA's attempts to "erase" the mind of individuals to "recreate it" and attempts to "shock" economic systems to profit out of them... Also shocking is Klein's disclosure of Latin America as an "economic shocking therapy" laboratory beginning with Chile's coup / Allende's killing back in '73. Then, I found particularly fascinating Klein's explanation on the consequences (political and economic) of the Berlin's wall fall back in '89 (trust me, it's nothing to do with what thought you knew). The upcoming described world, is to say the least, scary as hell. A kind of "Big Brother" world divided by walls, monitored by state of the art devices, and most of all, composed of very rich and very poor people... being only the first the ones who can pay for efficient healthcare, security, decent food, etc. You cannot miss this book.

Fantastic thoroughly researched book

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The Shock Doctrine is a wonderful book exposing the truth behind the basis of modern day big business 'corporatism' and globalisation for what it really is - a process which has the effect of redistributing wealth from the already poor to the rich, and through manipulation and outright brute force takes advantage of any opportunity to effect this change. It is common knowledge how the rich-poor divide is growing incredibly nowadays, with so many corporations and individuals generating staggering wealth on the backs of poor people getting poorer (a matter of life and death in so many parts of the world)- this book gets into the details of how this is being manipulated. It is thoroughly researched and contains information that should be headlined in the media, but unfortunately is not due to the modern corporate media and its financial interests and alignments and the image of the corporate business world they wish to convey. A great read.