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Naomi Klein brings Alan Greenspan Down To Earth! ( Now on tour in Bay Area)

by pb podowiel
Naomi Klein, now on tour with her latest precision analysis “The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" makes 2 Bay Area stops in San Francisco 9/26 and Oakland 9/28. And she just had the opportunity to debate Alan Greenspan on Democracy Now.
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Naomi's Klein's current book tour should provide some exceptional discussion regarding the current course of globalization, US foreign policy, and the exploitation AND implementation of global crises over the last 4 decades.

Klein was able to debate Alan Greenspan on Monday's Democracy Now program, which was reminiscent of Amy Goodman's opportunity to take apart Bill Clinton just before he left office in 2000. Greenspan may not know it, but he was just brought down to earth by a journalist who isn't willing to accept the neo-liberal babble of "the High-priest economist", who many will claim had led the way for corporate greed to run amok world-wide. Perhaps more appropriately it could be termed "Anglo-American Voodoo Economics", seeing as his circle of mumbo-calamity magicians and neo-cons have managed to "possess" every US administration since Ronald Reagan.

Youtube clips have already been posted which have broken down the segment so far down to 2 short topics...

crony capitalism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09zvzzCOB2M

inequality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09zvzzCOB2M

And the entire segment here:

ttp://http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/24/1412226

Klein's full tour information:

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine/tour

...

Excerpt from the XL terrestrials.org report on Naomi Klein and her collaboration with Alfonso Cuaron:

Klein’s Latest “Shock Doctrine” Should Wake Anyone Still Asleep In The Global Fire !

"Making stops in San Francisco 9/26 and Oakland 9/28, Naomi Klein is on tour with her latest precision analysis “The Shock Doctrine”. Could anyone still sleep through this fire, after absorbing her assessments of free market feeding time in neo-liberal overdrive over the last four decades?! ... Our first impression is that this has potential to completely alter the wearied and endless debates between economic and social systems and put everyone on the same page: no longer questioning, no longer demanding, but actually running for the exits and the alternatives.

...

Also very interesting to note from a Spectacle analysis, the use of a rising star of cinema, Alfonso Cuaron (Children Of Men), as a vehicle to advertise for information through perhaps the deeper and introspective medium, the book. In other words a profound new move in the mass media tactical arts, a jujitsu act going backwards against the flow of "Spectacle 2.0", the net’s current torrent towards a barrage of endlessly flowing snippets of fact and fiction, diversion and bit-dreams, the next connect to nowhere. "
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