Naomi Klein

Columnist

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, fellow at The Nation Institute and author of the international and New York Times bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is slated to be translated into seventeen languages to date. The six-minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals and a viral phenomenon as well, downloaded over one million times. Klein's previous book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into more than twenty-eight languages, with over a million copies in print. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, was published in 2002. Klein's regular column for The Nation and The Guardian is distributed internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004 her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. The same year, she released a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, The Take, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was an official selection of the Venice Biennale and won the best documentary jury prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles. Klein is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia.

Articles

Class War in Conrad's Court (Corporate Media and Consolidation, Regions and Countries, Society)

The jury selection for the trial of a Canadian press baron accused of looting shareholder earnings reveals popular discontent with the corporate elite.

Naomi Klein

A Trial for Thousands Denied Trial (Law, War on Terrorism, Society)

As Jose Padilla's trial unfolds in Miami, the cruel methods of US interrogators are finally being put on trial.

Naomi Klein

Pay To Be Saved (Disaster Capitalism, Blackwater, Cities, Politics)

Unless something changes soon, New Orleans will prove to be a glimpse
of a dystopic future, a future of disaster apartheid in which the
wealthy are saved and everyone else is left behind.

Naomi Klein

'Never Before!' Our Amnesiac Torture Debate (Covert Ops, Law, Society)

Does it lessen the horror to admit that this is not the first time the
US government has used torture to wipe out political opponents? The
exclusion of the impact of the School of the Americas on war crimes in El
Salvador, Argentina and Panama from our current debate on torture is
evidence of our collective amnesia.

Naomi Klein

The Threat of Hope in Latin America (Regions and Countries)

Across Latin America indigenous movements redrawing the continent's
political map, demanding not just "rights" but a reinvention of the
state along deeply democratic lines.

Naomi Klein

GOP Opportunity Zone (Social Justice, Cities, Housing Activism, Politics)

This is a list of "Pro-Free-Market Ideas for Responding to Hurricane
Katrina and High Gas Prices," circulated by the href="http://johnshadegg.house.gov/rsc/about.htm">House Republican
Study

Naomi Klein

Purging the Poor (Social Justice, Cities, Housing Activism, Politics)

Why are the poorest victims of Hurricane Katrina
being kept out of perfectly livable homes?

Naomi Klein

Doing the Math (Social Justice, Cities, Housing Activism, Politics)

Here's how we identified more than 11,000 empty, rentable homes in
New Orleans:

Naomi Klein

Let the People Rebuild New Orleans (Racism and Discrimination, Social Justice, Cities, Housing Activism, Politics, Society)

Let the evacuees of New Orleans take the lead in determining how the
billions of dollars in reconstruction funds are used to rebuild their
lives and their city.

Naomi Klein

Terror's Greatest Recruitment Tool (Racism and Discrimination, Regions and Countries, Society)

Though many blame Britain's excessive tolerance for the recent terrorist attacks, the real problem is not too much multiculturalism but too little.

Naomi Klein