Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 9:55am.
For the reasons that the U.S. went into Iraq and then botched (and continues to botch) the occupation, I suggest reading "The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein. Although Iraq and Katrina provide us with the most recent and most glaring examples of this doctrine, our boy Bill was not without his "Iraqs": the economic "realignment" of Russia, for example.
I've read many criticisms of how the UAW supposedly caved this week and how the strikers wanted GM to continue health care coverage. This is true, but the main reason that they went on strike was to obtain guarantees that their jobs would not be moved to Mexico or China. I'm amazed that so many people don't understand how NAFTA and China PNTR have drastically weakened any bargaining power unions have in this country. If the next president is an adherent of the Chicago School (this includes Hillary and Obama - check out his economic advisors), we can expect this "shock doctrine" to continue.
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For the reasons that the U.S. went into Iraq and then botched (and continues to botch) the occupation, I suggest reading "The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein. Although Iraq and Katrina provide us with the most recent and most glaring examples of this doctrine, our boy Bill was not without his "Iraqs": the economic "realignment" of Russia, for example.
I've read many criticisms of how the UAW supposedly caved this week and how the strikers wanted GM to continue health care coverage. This is true, but the main reason that they went on strike was to obtain guarantees that their jobs would not be moved to Mexico or China. I'm amazed that so many people don't understand how NAFTA and China PNTR have drastically weakened any bargaining power unions have in this country. If the next president is an adherent of the Chicago School (this includes Hillary and Obama - check out his economic advisors), we can expect this "shock doctrine" to continue.