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Keith talks to Naomi Klein about her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and how disaster capitalism has worked in Iraq, Katrina, and past military coups to push through extreme economic practices which privatize everything and gut social programs and government agencies against the will of the general populations of the countries in which the disasters occur. In Iraq right now you have "a corporate takeover with guns," says Olbermann. "It's looting," says Klein. Check out the video to your right for more.



Naomi Klein's command of the issues is impressive. I applaud her attempt to create an over-arching theory that helps rank & file citizens understand the risks and issues, and hope individual Americans take their country back.