07-05-2012, 04:30 AM
[video=vimeo;26718047]http://vimeo.com/26718047[/video]
The Shock Doctrine, a documentary that vividly shows how disaster capitalism the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock did not begin with September 11, 2001. Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, the book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, "shock and awe" warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.
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“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.