Naomi Klein (the author) is a respected and thoughtful academic. Her previous book ('No Logo') was well received around the world.
The ideas she presents here are obviously true:
Governments and corporations are colluding to exploit the poor and powerless by profiteering from disaters (natural or man made).
They get away with it by doing it at moments of national or global crisis, when the voting public has been shocked into momentary helplesness by disasters such as 9/11 or the recent tsunami in Southeast Asia.
Naomi Klein (the author) is a respected and thoughtful academic. Her previous book ('No Logo') was well received around the world.
The ideas she presents here are obviously true:
Governments and corporations are colluding to exploit the poor and powerless by profiteering from disaters (natural or man made).
They get away with it by doing it at moments of national or global crisis, when the voting public has been shocked into momentary helplesness by disasters such as 9/11 or the recent tsunami in Southeast Asia.