This day, being election day, I bid you go over to the CBC Radio Web site and listen to Naomi Klein deliver a lecture called “War and Fleece: How Economic ‘Shock Therapy’ Backfired in Iraq.” I listened to it broadcast on Ideas last night as I drove home from work, and it is, indeed, a fine piece of journalistic exposition.
If you can’t get the file to work (as I could not), perhaps you should read the Harper’s article Klein wrote in September 2004, called “Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neo-con utopia”, which touches on much of the same?
And, is it just me, or is this CNN pulse-of-the-blogosphere entirely vacuous?
Wicked article! Thanks.