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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.



FACTS:



Chile, 1973:

50,000 tortured

80,000 imprisoned

Public spending cut by 50%

Incomes for the rich up 83%

45% of population in poverty



Wars – Falklands War, 1982:

910 people die

Thatcher's popularity doubles

She privatizes gas, steel, airlines, telephones

She declares war on unions

Thousands are injured

Unemployment triples

Number of poor increases by 100%



Massacres:

China 1989 – hundreds killed

Thousands jailed and tortured

China becomes sweatshop to the world

China embraces "free market" capitalism

Factory wages: $1/day



Russia, 1993:

Yeltsin attacks parliament

Hundreds killed

Parliament burned

Opposition arrested

72 million impoverished

17 new billionaires created



Terrorist Attacks – New York, 2001:

Attacks launch "War on Terror." It is privatized.

US spy agencies outsource 70% of their budgets

Pentagon increases budget for contractors by $137 billion/year

Department of Homeland Security spends $130 billion on private contractors



Invasions – Iraq, 2003:

The most privatized war in modern history

US decrees 200 state companies will be privatized

Hundreds of thousands killed

4 million displaced



Natural Disasters – Sri Lanka, 2004:

35,000 dead

Coastline handed over to hotels and industry

Nearly 1 million displaced

Fishing people forbidden to rebuild homes by the sea





-A Film by Alfonso Cuaron & Naomi Klein. Directed by Jonas Cuaron (2007). Based on Klein's bestselling book: "Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism"

-Milton Friedman (The 20th Century's most prominent economist advocate of free markets. He was widely regarded as the leader of the Chicago School of monetary economics, which stresses the importance of the quantity of money as an instrument of government policy and as a determinant of business cycles and inflation. Recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science, 1976, Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1988).