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When That Crisis Occurs, The Actions That Are Taken Depend On The Ideas That Are Lying Around. --milton Friedman The Shock Doctrine Is The Unofficial Story Of How The Free Market Came To Dominate The World, From Chile To Russia, China To Iraq, South Africa To Canada. But It Is A Story Radically Different From The One Usually Told. It Is A Story About Violence And Shock Perpetrated On People, On Countries, On Economies. About A Program Of Social And Economic Engineering That Is Driving Our World, That Naomi Klein Calls Disaster Capitalism. Based On Breakthrough Historical Research And Four Years Of On-the-ground Reporting In Disaster Zones, Klein Explodes The Myth That The Global Free Market Triumphed Democratically, And That Unfettered Capitalism Goes Hand-in-hand With Democracy. Instead, She Argues It Has Consistently Relied On Violence And Shock, And Reveals The Puppet Strings Behind The Critical Events Of The Last Four Decades. 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She Details, In This Riveting - Indeed Shocking - Story, The Well-known Events Of The Recent Past That Have Been Deliberate, Active Theatres For The Shock Doctrine: Among Them, Pinochet's Coup In Chile In 1973, The Falklands War In 1982, The Tiananmen Square Massacre In 1989, The Collapse Of The Soviet Union In 1991; And, More Recently, The September 11 Attacks, The Shock And Awe Invasion Of Iraq, The Asian Tsunami And Hurricane Katrina. And She Shows How - In The Hands Of The Bush Administration - The War On Terror Is A Thin Cover For A Thriving Destruction\/ Reconstruction Complex, With Disasters, Wars And Homeland Security Fuelling A Booming New Economy. Naomi Klein Has Once Again Written A Book That Will Change The Way We See The World. The World Is A Messy Place, And Someone Has To Clean It Up. --condoleezza Rice, September 2002, On The Need To Invade Iraq George's Answer To Any Problem At The Ranch Is To Cut It Down With A Chainsaw. 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