(P/B) SHOCK DOCTRINE

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Free markets, we're told, mean free people. Yet around the world this 'freedom' is being paid for in blood. When a catastrophe occurs - whether war, terrorist attack or natural disaster - there are people cleaning up and cashing in, using chaos to force through brutal economic punishment. They are the shock doctors.
Naomi Klein's gripping and explosive book reveals who these global racketeers are, how their ideology has come to dominate our world - from raking in billions out of the tsunami, to plundering Russia and exploiting Iraq - and how they are making a killing. (From the publisher)

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INTRODUCTION
Blank Is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World
PART 1
Two Doctor Shocks: Research and Development
1. The Torture Lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the Maniacal Quest to Erase and Remake the Human Mind
2. The Other Doctor Shock: Milton Friedman and the Search for a Laissez-Faire Laboratory
PART 2
The First Test: Birth Pangs
3. States of Shock: The Bloody Birth of the Counterrevolution
4. Cleaning the Slate: Terror Does Its Work
5. "Entirely Unrelated": How an Ideology Was Cleansed of Its Crimes
PART 3
Surviving Democracy: Bombs Made of Laws
6. Saved by a War: Thatcherism and Its Useful Enemies
7. The New Doctor Shock: Economic Warfare Replaces Dictatorship
8. Crisis Works: The Packaging of Shock Therapy
PART 4
Lost in Transition: While We Wept, While We Trembled, While We Danced
9. Slamming the Door on History: A Crisis in Poland, a Massacre in China
10. Democracy Born in Chains: South Africa's Constricted Freedom
11. Bonfire of a Young Democracy: Russia Chooses "The Pinochet Option"
12. The Capitalist Id: Russia and the New Era of the Boor Market
13. Let It Burn: The Looting of Asia and "The Fall of a Second Berlin Wall"
PART 5
Shocking Times: The Rise of the Disaster Capitalism Complex
14. Shock Therapy in the U.S.A.: The Homeland Security Bubble
15. A Corporatist State: Removing the Revolving Door, Putting in an Archway
PART 6
Iraq, Full Circle: Overshock
16. Erasing Iraq: In Search of a "Model" for the Middle East
17. Ideological Blowback: A Very Capitalist Disaster
18. Full Circle: From Blank Slate to Scorched Earth
PART 7
The Movable Green Zone: Buffer Zones and Blast Walls
19. Blanking the Beach: "The Second Tsunami"
20. Disaster Apartheid: A World of Green Zones and Red Zones
21. Losing the Peace Incentive: Israel as Warning
CONCLUSION
Shock Wears Off: The Rise of People's Reconstruction
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index