Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is Senior Correspondent at The Intercept and the inaugural Gloria Steinem Chair of Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. Her books include: No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need; This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate; The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism; and No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. To read all her writing visit www.naomiklein.org. Follow her on Twitter: @NaomiAKlein.
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Views Friday, June 21, 2019 Forget Bernie vs. Warren. Focus on Growing the Progressive Base and Defeating Biden. A few days ago, I shared what I thought was a fairly innocuous observation about a fundamental difference between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Warren spends most of her campaign unpacking and explaining detailed policy proposals, many of them excellent, while Sanders splits his emphasis... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 24, 2019 We’re Stepping Up—Join Us For a Day to Halt This Climate Crisis On 20 September, at the request of the young people who have been staging school strikes around the world, we’re walking out of our workplaces and homes to spend the day demanding action on the climate crisis, the greatest existential threat that all of us face. It’s a one-day climate strike, if... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 13, 2019 The Battle Lines Have Been Drawn on the Green New Deal “I REALLY DON’T like their policies of taking away your car, taking away your airplane flights, of ‘let’s hop a train to California,’ or ‘you’re not allowed to own cows anymore!'” So bellowed President Donald Trump in El Paso, Texas, his first campaign-style salvo against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, November 27, 2018 The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal Like so many others, I’ve been energized by the bold moral leadership coming from newly elected members of Congress like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley in the face of the spiraling climate crisis and the outrageous attacks on unarmed migrants at the border... Read more |
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Views Monday, August 06, 2018 Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not “Human Nature” This Sunday, the entire New York Times Magazine will be composed of just one article on a single subject: the failure to confront the global climate crisis in the 1980s, a time when the science was settled and the politics seemed to align. Written by Nathaniel Rich, this work of history is filled... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 08, 2018 The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Ricans and Ultrarich "Puertopians" are Locked in a Pitched Struggle Over How to Remake the Island Like everywhere else in Puerto Rico, the small mountain city of Adjuntas was plunged into total darkness by Hurricane Maria. When residents left their homes to take stock of the damage, they found themselves not only without power and water, but also totally cut off from the rest of the island... Read more |
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Views Thursday, December 21, 2017 Forget Coates vs. West — We All Have a Duty to Confront the Full Reach of U.S. Empire So, which side are you on? #TeamWest or #TeamCoates? Choose fast, preferably within seconds, and don’t come to this gunfight with a knife. No, like some nerdy Rambo, we want you greased up and loaded with ammo: your most painful character smears, your most “gotcha” evidence of past political... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 28, 2017 Bernie Sanders Is Most Popular Politician in the US – and Why Jeremy Corbyn Will Win in Britain The following is the full transcript, via the UK's Labour List , of Naomi Klein's speech delivered at the Labour Party's annual convention on Tuesday, September 26, 2017 in Brighton, United Kingdom. Thank you Kate for that lovely introduction and all the work that you do to put social justice on... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 11, 2017 Irma Won’t “Wake Up” Climate Change-Denying Republicans. Their Whole Ideology Is on the Line. As one of the most powerful storms ever recorded bore down on the continental United States, with much of Florida under evacuation order, President Donald Trump was focused on a matter of grave urgency. He gathered his cabinet at Camp David and said there was no time to waste. With Hurricane Irma... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 29, 2017 Harvey Didn’t Come Out of the Blue. Now Is The Time to Talk About Climate Change. Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices — from racial profiling to economic austerity — that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes. Turn on the coverage of the Hurricane Harvey and the Houston flooding and you’ll hear lots of talk... Read more |