Video version.
In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment" losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. By capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, Klein argues that the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
Readers of ‘Expedient Homemade Firearms’ Volume I
and II may find the following 9mm Machine Pistol design
of interest.
The firearm is constructed using similar materials and
techniques as those illustrated in my previous books.
The following construction drawings will be familiar to
readers already conversant with my previous designs.
The pistol uses the same design magazine shown in
Volume I, though I have included the magazine base
plate spring design, shown in Volume II, as a design
improvement.
I have designed the bolt to be a simple unit easily
machined using a lathe, rather than assembling the bolt
from the selection of hardware products shown in
Volume I and II.
In short, I have designed the machine pistol with the
slightly more advanced home-gunsmith in mind and to
enable relatively simple home workshop construction.