Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.

His autobiography sheds light on what motivates hard-right political leaders to apply brutal economic shock therapy.

In this VideoNation report, Nation columnist Naomi Klein explains how after 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new security economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined evil.

Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.

Gaza is in chaos, but Israel's economy is booming as high-tech entrepreneurs scramble to meet the post-9/11 world's hunger for spy tools and containment walls.

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.

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