Thursday, February 19, 2009

Disaster Capitalism: Naomi Klein Talks About The Shock Doctrine

In this day-and-age of economic disaster, you do not want to miss the recent lecture at Michigan State University by author/activist Naomi Klein, who wrote the book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.  Klein provides important insights into the U.S. economic meltdown and its impact across the globe. 

Klein spoke at the MSU Auditorium on Wednesday, February 17, 2009.  Her full speech is provided below.  Shorter snippets of the speech and the Q&A session at the end will be released separately.  Here you can watch all or parts of the speech by using the slide bar that comes with the video.  The video can also be found here.

-- Rico Thomas Rico
Naomi Klein at Michigan State University
17 February 2009


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