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Klein: Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
Znet Article, June, 21 2010
Naomi Klein
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The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of ca...
Klein: A New Climate Movement in Bolivia
Znet Article, April, 27 2010
Naomi Klein
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It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to ma...
Klein: Open Letter to Berkeley Students on their Historic Israeli Divestment Bill
Znet Article, April, 02 2010
Naomi Klein
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On March 18, continuing a long tradition of pioneering human rights campaigns, the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC) passed "A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES." The historic bill re...
Klein: Haiti: A Creditor, Not A Debtor
Znet Article, February, 13 2010
Naomi Klein
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If we are to believe the G-7 finance ministers, Haiti is on its way to getting something it has deserved for a very long time: full "forgiveness" of its foreign debt. In Port-au-Prince, Haitian economist Camille Chalmers has been watching these de...
Chomsky: Howard Zinn (1922-2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian with Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove
Znet Article, January, 28 2010
Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein, Anthony Arnove on the loss of Howard Zinn.
Klein: For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
Znet Article, December, 21 2009
Naomi Klein
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Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China's fault, or the fault of the hapless UN.
Klein: Better to have no deal at Copenhagen than one that spells catastrophe
Znet Article, December, 18 2009
Naomi Klein
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The only offer on the table in Copenhagen would condemn the developing world to poverty and suffering in perpetuity.
Klein: Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis
Znet Article, November, 25 2009
Naomi Klein
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That piece in Rolling Stone is looking at a growing demand for the repayment of climate debt. This is really a relatively new framing for the climate crisis and is becoming predominantly from the developing world, led by the government of Bolivia ...
Klein: Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up
Znet Article, November, 15 2009
Naomi Klein
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The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It’s set to come out ten years after a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organizatio...
Klein: Obama's Bad Influence
Znet Article, October, 17 2009
Naomi Klein
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Of all the explanations for Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the one that rang truest came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "It sets the seal on America's return to the heart of all the world's peoples." In other words, this was Europe's wa...
Klein: America's Teacher
Znet Article, September, 24 2009
Naomi Klein
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Klein interviewing Moore about his new film...
Klein: Minority Death Match: Jews, Blacks, And The “Post-Racial†Presidency
Znet Article, August, 28 2009
Naomi Klein
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When I arrived at the grand offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the Palais Wilson, looking out at a drizzly Lake Geneva, Navanethem Pillay was hunched over the shoulder of her deputy, Kyung-wha Kang, dictating a pr...
Klein: Let's Put an End to Sarah Palin-Style Capitalism
Znet Article, July, 30 2009
Naomi Klein
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We are in a progressive moment, a moment when the ground is shifting beneath our feet, and anything is possible. What we considered unimaginable about what could be said and hoped for a year ago is now possible.
Klein: The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss!
Znet Article, May, 19 2009
Naomi Klein
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With the world economy now looking remarkably like Argentina's in 2001 (and for many of the same reasons) there is a new wave of direct action among workers in rich countries.
Klein: Why We Should Banish Larry Summers From Public Life
Znet Article, April, 20 2009
Naomi Klein
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I vote to banish Larry Summers. Not from the planet. That wouldn't be nice. Just from public life.
Klein: A Lexicon of Disappointment
Znet Article, April, 19 2009
Naomi Klein
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All is not well in Obamafanland. It's not clear exactly what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury's latest bank bailout. Or the news that the president's chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, earn...
Waskow: Which Strategy to Heal the Middle East?
Znet Article, March, 23 2009
Arthur Waskow
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Several weeks ago, a national progressive newspaper called In These Times invited me to take part in a conversation with Naomi Klein, a renowned progressive political analyst and writer, with the intention of transcribing it and publishing an edit...
Klein: Public Revolt Builds Against Rip-off Rescue Plans for the Economy
Znet Article, February, 07 2009
Naomi Klein
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Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles in 2002: "You are Enron. We are Argentina."
Klein: Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction
Znet Article, January, 08 2009
Naomi Klein
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It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
Klein: 'We Can't Lose This Moment'
Znet Article, December, 05 2008
Naomi Klein
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We are seeing an example of what I call in the book a "shock resistance," where this tactic has been so overused around the world and also in Canada that we are becoming more resistant to the tactic - we are on to them - and Harper is not getting ...
