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Today I wrote a review/discussion of Naomi Klein's book, Shock Doctrine. The book has powerfully moved me. It's must reading. It describes an economic model that is widely embraced-- globalism, free trade-- and reports how those concepts, promoted by economist Milton Friedman, have been used in monstrous ways to enable corporate predators to prey upon dozens of emerging democratic nations. Democrats and Republicans support these theories and the ruthless practices-- coups, mass killings, torture, destruction of the middle class, mass repression of human rights-- that they advocate. The corpstream media will not report adequately on Klein's ideas. They are part of the problem.

Klein's book provides a brilliant expose' and she should be awarded the highest of prizes, including the Nobel prize. But we need people and organizations to take up the battle against the forces that have supported what she describes-- Disaster Capitalism and its Shock Doctrine. OpEdNews has been fighting that fight and, now, having a clearer vision of the enemy, of the target of our efforts, we are re-doubling our efforts to take on the behemoth. But we can't do it alone. Do YOU want to stand by and let these monsters continue to ravage the planet, starting wars, attacking vulnerable newly emerging democracies? Or do you want to DO Something? DO You want to make a difference? You CAN, by helping and supporting OpEdNews.com with your contributions. You can, if you have experience with publicity, by helping us get our message out bigger and better, as a volunteer.

Are you  a part of the solution, passively watching transnational corporate criminals do everything they can, to erase constitutional rights, eliminate environmental and worker protections, all for the sake of profits? Or do you choose to DO SOMETHING?

If you could have, in 1935,  contributed to an organization fighting to stop the growth of the Nazis in Germany or the Fascists in Italy, would you, knowing now what their unimpeded growth led to, have made a generous donation? Would you have dug deep and sacrificed a bit to do whatever you could from stopping the horrible monsters from reaching full strength?

Some will say that the disaster capitalists who have perpetrated shock doctrine policies upon dozens of nations are even worse than the nazis or fascists. They threaten the very fabric of the world's democracy.

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These are dangerous times. The USA has entered a time of economic crisis. The disaster capitalism and shock doctrine is in the process-- has already begun hitting the USA. It has already hit so many other nations. No matter what country you live in, we need your contributions. Yesterday, Australia's John Howard fell. But his replacement will support globalism. The battle is far from over there.

Read my article. Then read the article linked to at the end. You need to know about the concepts Klein lays out and then, I hope you choose to take action.

From the heart,

rob kall
PS And if you have PR skills, please drop me a note and volunteer.

 

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