In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world-- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts.... New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters -- to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun on the streets. Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay. The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas through our contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of the recent past 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, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lUNqJ5Ss98

Somehow not expecting it, the Americans now face an insurgency problem, as both Sunni and Shi'a militants emerge to kick us out. War crimes and atrocities in Fallujah, Sadr City and Abu Ghraib fuel the flames of anti-American reistance. To support the show & more go to: https://blowback.show/ Sources: Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, Sy Hersh, 2004. “Rumsfeld: Zarqawi Like Hitler,” CBS, 2005. “Schwartz on Why the Military Is Failing in Iraq,” Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, 2005. “Does the Resistance Target Civilians? According to US Intel, Not Really,” M. Junaid Alam, LeftHook, 2005. The Developing Iraqi Insurgency: Status at End-2004, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2004. “CIA Studies Provide Glimpse of Insurgents in Iraq,” Walter Pincus, The Washington Post, 2005. “U.S. Commanders See Possible Cut in Troops in Iraq,” Eric Schmitt, The New York Times, 2005. “Secret MoD poll: Iraqis support attacks on British troops,” Sean Rayment, The Telegraph, 2005. “A name that lives in infamy,” Mike Marqusee, The Guardian, 2005. “Returning Fallujans will face clampdown,” Anne Barnard, Boston Globe, 2005. “Inside besieged Falluja,” BBC, 2005. “US strikes raze Falluja hospital,” BBC, 2004. “General praises speed of Fallujah success,” Associated Press, 2004. “New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge: Abu Ghraib Detainees' Statements Describe Sexual Humiliation And Savage Beatings," Scott Higham and Joe Stevens, Washington Post, 2004. “Transcript of President Bush's interview on Al Arabiya Television,” New York Times, 2004. Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, Anthony Shadid, 2005. “US general survives bomb attack by insurgents,” Justin Huggler, The Independent, 2004. “Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima',” Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, 2010. State of Denial, Bob Woodward, 2006. “Early Target of Offensive Is a Hospital,” Richard A. Oppel Jr., The New York Times, 2004. “The fog of war: white phosphorus, Fallujah and some burning questions,” Andrew Buncome and Solomon Hughes, The Independent, 2005. “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” Chris Busby, Malak Hamdan, and Entesar Ariabi, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2010. “Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi,” Thomas Ricks, Washington Post, 2006. Attached slides. “Hyping Zarqawi,” Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, 2006. “US Blunders in Iraq: De-Baathification and Disbanding the Army,” James Pfiffner, Intelligence and National Security, 2010. Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq, Patrick Cockburn, 2008. The Occupation: War And Resistance In Iraq, Patrick Cockburn, 2007. The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq, George Packer, 2005. “Inside the ambush known as Black Sunday,” Ely Brown, ABC News, 2017. “8-Day Battle for Najaf: From Attack to Stalemate,” Alex Berenson and John F. Burns, The New York Times, 2004. “Torture at Abu Ghraib,” Sy Hersh, The New Yorker, 2004. “Abuse at Abu Ghraib,” CBS 60 Minutes, 2004. The Abu Ghraib Investigations: The Official Reports of the Independent Panel and the Pentagon on the Shocking Prisoner Abuse in Iraq, Edited by Steven Strasser, 2004. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjSQnwYnXBA