The Shock Doctorine and American politics...

citybutch · 12-05-2010, 02:32 PM

I watched this the other evening... with my wife. Anyone else seen it?

Basically it is a book (movie made from the book) which the author, Naomi Klein, maintains that based on the ideas of Milton Firedman, free market systems around the world have been intentionally spread through a strategic "shock and awe" around the world... (nothing really new to many of us... think BP, Haliburton, and hundreds of others).

I was tempted to de-rail another thread because of a discussion of political parties. So decided instead to start a new thread to talk about how both major political parties in the US are so dependent on corporate dollars that neither one is innocent from the corporate oligarchy that controls much of the planet now, which is one of Klein's points.

Each platform has positive as well as negative policies. And each platform wants power.... power they will not have if it weren't for the various blocks of massive resources from both corporations as well as labor.....

Anyone want to join a respectful discussion?

12-05-2010, 02:32 PM	#1
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