{"id":4942,"date":"2010-10-30T09:55:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T14:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2010-11-08T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T04:58:10","slug":"the-shock-doctrine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/30\/the-shock-doctrine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shock Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does this sound like a must read book? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In <a title=\"Description of The Shock Doctrine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.naomiklein.org\/shock-doctrine\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>THE SHOCK DOCTRINE<\/strong><\/a>, 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\u2019s \u201cfree market\u201d policies have come to dominate the world&#8211; through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p>November 8, 2010<\/p>\n<p>When I posted this, I had forgotten that I had a post with the same title <strong><a title=\"Previous Blog Post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/10\/12\/the-shock-doctrine\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Shock Doctrine<\/a><\/strong>, on October 12, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>That post had links to 6 video clips of Naomi Klein speaking about her book to a Canadian organization.<\/p>\n<p>In that post, I had written the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was in the middle of watching part 3 of the above links when I realized that I wasn\u2019t feeling well enough to watch the rest of it.\u00a0 Between watching this, and after watching a Huffington Post item previously, and participating in some Worcester Telegram &amp; Gazette discussions, I am not sure how much more of this I can take.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that I am actually reading the book, I find that the revelations in the book do affect me in that way again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does this sound like a must read book? \ud83d\ude42 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5106,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}