Disaster Capitalism

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

I was listening to Naomi Klein this morning on WHUS. I definitely want to pick up this book.

It's about how these countries that come in (predominately the US, and the World Bank) and exploit areas hit by disaster in order to set up a capitalist economy that will work in our interests.

Here's a fairly brief article:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050502/klein