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

Aristide in Exile (Global Organizations, Regions and Countries)

Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide attributes his falling-out with Washington to a disagreement over privatization.

Naomi Klein

A Noose, Not a Bracelet (Environmental Issues, Regions and Countries, Environment)

The people of Africa, not Western corporations, should benefit from Africa's resources.

Naomi Klein

Letters

HEALTHCARE IN AFGHANISTAN

Baltimore

Naomi Klein and Our Readers

Torture's Dirty Secret: It Works (Law, Society)

When it comes to social control, nothing works quite like
torture.

Naomi Klein

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Disaster Capitalism, Global Organizations, World)

Rebuilding is no longer the primary purpose of the reconstruction industry.

Naomi Klein

Letters

IRAQ: MADE IN AMERICA?

Pennington, NJ

Roberta Brandes Gratz, Naomi Klein, Our Readers and Stephen A. Goldsmith

Can Democracy Survive Bush's Embrace? (Foreign Policy, Regions and Countries)

It started off as a joke and has now become vaguely serious: the idea that Bono might be named president of the World Bank.

Naomi Klein

Getting the Purple Finger (Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation)

"The Iraqi people gave America the biggest 'thank you' in the best way we could have hoped for." Reading this election analysis from Betsy Hart, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, I

Naomi Klein

You Break It, You Pay For It (Foreign Policy, Social Justice, Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation, Peace Activism)

So it turns out Pottery Barn doesn't even have a rule that says, "You break it, you own it." According to a company spokesperson, "in the rare instance that something is broken in the store, it's

Naomi Klein

Kerry and the Gift of Impunity (Political Figures, George W. Bush, Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation)

Click here to read Klein's "You Asked for my Evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here It Is. In Iraq, the US Does Eliminate Those Who Dare to Count the Dead," published in the Dec. 4, 2004 Guardian.

Naomi Klein