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" (2017), "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate" (2015); "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" (2008); and "No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies" (2009). To read all her writing visit www.naomiklein.org. Follow her on Twitter: @NaomiAKlein.
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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 |
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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 |