Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, author, and syndicated columnist. Her new book, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, will be published in June, 2017. Her previous books include the international best-sellers, 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 Thursday, June 01, 2017 Economic Pressure Could Jolt Trump into Action on Climate Change Let’s just give up. That’s one way of responding to the reports that President Trump has decided to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. After all, without the world’s largest economy and the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases onboard, what point is there in any of us... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 23, 2017 “Fear City” Explores How Donald Trump Exploited the New York Debt Crisis To Boost His Own Fortune When I published “The Shock Doctrine” a decade ago, a few people told me that it was missing a key chapter in the evolution of the tactic I was reporting on. That tactic involved using periods of crisis to impose a radical pro-corporate agenda. They said that in the United States that story doesn’t... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Get Ready for the First Shocks of Trump’s Disaster Capitalism We already know that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, wage all-out war on “radical Islamic terrorism,” trash climate science and unleash a fossil-fuel frenzy. It’s a vision that can be counted on to generate a tsunami of crises and shocks: economic shocks, as market bubbles... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, November 09, 2016 It Was the Rise of the Davos Class That Sealed America’s Fate They will blame James Comey and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression and racism. They will blame Bernie or bust and misogyny. They will blame third parties and independent candidates. They will blame the corporate media for giving him the platform, social media for being a bullhorn, and... Read more |
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Views Saturday, November 05, 2016 The Carbon Tax on the Ballot in Washington State Is Not the Right Way to Deal With Global Warming T he imperatives of the climate crisis and the logic of economic austerity are at war—and Washington State is on the front lines. So-called “revenue-neutral” carbon pricing—whereby the proceeds are used to fund tax cuts—has long been a cherished hobbyhorse of free-market economists and the odd... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 23, 2016 Canada’s Founding Myths Hold Us Back from Addressing Climate Change It has been one year and one week since a coalition of dozens of organizations and artists launched The Leap Manifesto, a short vision statement about how to transition to a post-carbon economy while battling social and economic injustice. A lot has changed: a new federal government, a new... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 14, 2016 The Best Has Yet To Come On the surface, the battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders looks like a deep rift, one that threatens to splinter the Democratic Party. But viewed in the sweep of history, it is evidence of something far more positive for the party’s base and beyond: not a rift but a shift—the first... Read more |
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Views Monday, February 29, 2016 Don’t Shut Post Offices—Reinvent Them Naomi Klein delivered the following remarks in Ottawa on February 29, at the Leap Day launch of Delivering Community Power , a proposal to turn postal offices into green community hubs to power Canada’s next economy. Leap Day is the official kickoff date for dozens of climate action and events... Read more |
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Views Friday, December 11, 2015 We Are Out of Time... We Need to Leap The following remarks were adapted from a speech by Naomi Klein on Monday at "Now is Not the Time For Small Steps: Solutions to the Climate Crisis and the Role of Trade Unions" at Salle Olympe de Gouges in Paris, France. Here is what we know about what to expect from the official climate... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 23, 2015 What’s Really at Stake at the Paris Climate Conference Now Marches Are Banned Whose security gets protected by any means necessary? Whose security is casually sacrificed, despite the means to do so much better? Those are the questions at the heart of the climate crisis, and the answers are the reason climate summits so often end in acrimony and tears. The French government’s... Read more |