Naomi Klein’s `The Shock Doctrine´

A powerful and nut-grabbing short publicising Naomi Klein’s new book:`The Shock Doctrine´.
The book examines economist Milton Friedman’s idea that governments can push normally unpalatable trade agendas onto their electorates in the immediate aftermath of shocking events. She thoroughly debunks the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically.

The publicity short was produced by The Foreign Office.

Watch it here in Quicktime, large (164Mb) and medium (19Mb), and if you really want to, in Windows media, big (224Mb) and middling (24Mb).

Banksy isn’t actually credited as art director here, but my, how his influence is visible.

The Guardian has created a mini-site for the launch of this book. There are four pages of excerpts, here, here, here, and here.

And a YouTube version here.

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2 Comments

StephenHanson

Posted 30 September, 2007 at 10:14 am | Permalink

Hi Michael
Long time no sea and all that. I’ve just discovered blog and have now started one myself, please take a look when you have time and link me if you think i’m worthy of your site.http://thelostmoon.blogspot.com/
Hope you are well, would love to chat and catch up.
All the best
Steve
ps I’m having problems adding links to my site, do you have any easy answers, it’s driving me nuts.
michael

Posted 30 September, 2007 at 4:35 pm | Permalink

Hi Steve. I’ve added a link to your blog - thelostmoon.blogspot.com and I hope to see more of your lovely work there soon. Welcome to the world of blogging
Oh and I’ve e-mailed you about the links, too.