Yes I am familiar with her work. "Baghdad Year Zero" is a must read: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/09/0080197 and the basis for what I have to say that Iraq is just the testing ground for what the NeoCons want to do to America (I have some more interesting stuff from a friend visiting DC I'll post later). But beware some people even on this forum want to believe the myth and will call you a "conspiracy theorist" for wanting to get to the bottom of things. They just want to keep taking the blue pill I guess.
Duveyoung wrote: > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/naomi-kleins-shock-doctrine > > Has anyone read this book or know this author from other works? > > Seems, from the article, that she's our Joan of Anti-Globalism. > > Just this article alone chills my bones with the icy truths I so often > turn my gaze from. I feel that if I read this book, I'll be > radicalized and get more pro-active than "mere voting." > > Oh well, what else have I got to do? I'm just an I, and even though > everything I do is a line on water, I STILL WANT TO DRAW THAT LINE. > > However brief the line -- for a heartbeat only maybe -- at least for > that moment, on the other side of the line, clearly will stand "the > others," -- the monsters of earth who kill children -- not just before > breakfast, but endlessly, day and night, with bombs, guns, machetes, > jack boots, starvation, thirst and hate. > > These monsters have, before the eyes of the world, ground the American > Dream into the evil paste of flesh and mud in the treads of tanks. We > have never been perfect, oh so far from it, but now they take even our > love-dream of a fair, just, even glorious, nation and try to make us > turn to loving-to-hate anything that the headlines shine a light on, > to have us positively gleeful for the carnage, worshipful of the gore > of innocents splattered on every wall in Bagdad, and to want this > until every last non-American has been murdered for their riches under > their very feet. > > Man, this post alone has me steamed -- do I dare read this book? > > Edg > > >
