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In the time it takes to watch a craptactular hour of Canadian Idol or even a lousy episode of CSI Viva Lost Vegas, you can hear all about, and even come to understand, Ms. Naomi Klein's thesis that she puts forward in the 'Shock Doctrine'*.
And best of all, you can do other stuff on a beautiful late-summer Sunday.
It's worth it.
Real Audio File #1
Real Audio File #2
Link to the CBC's The Current
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*You can also listen to Greg Palast destroy Aurel Braun's use of the 'Conspiracy Theory' vituperative.
Thanks, as always to Alison bringing this up.
Near the end of Anna Maria Tremonti's interview there is a discussion of the situation in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Ms. Klein mentions relatively intact blocks of public housing that are being torn down so that private developers can swoop in and make a fortune under the guise of making things better for 'everyone'. This, for Vancouverites, is ironic in the extreme if you think about Rich Coleman's shock therapy-assisted (ie. P3-driven) destruction of the public housing on Main Street near Little Mountain.
Interesting how Mr.Braun,referred to above, and Todd Gitlin, who reviewed Ms. Klein's book in the Globe this weekend, both used the 'Bremer was just an off-the-reservation incompetent' argument in an attempt to counter Ms Klein's thesis as it applies to the post-invasion period in Iraq. Hmmmmmm.....looks like those letters from Mr. Bush that Mr. Bremer kept are worth something after all.
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