{"id":15368,"date":"2011-04-15T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T22:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15368"},"modified":"2011-04-15T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T22:53:54","slug":"austin-g-mackell-reading-the-shock-doctrine-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15368","title":{"rendered":"Austin G. Mackell: Reading the Shock Doctrine in Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"View all posts by Austin G. Mackell\" href=\"http:\/\/austingmackell.wordpress.com\/author\/austingmackell\/\">Austin G. Mackell<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n12 April 2011<\/p>\n<p><em>The Shock Doctrine<\/em>, by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naomiklein.org\/main\">Naomi Klein<\/a>,  is the ducks fucking nuts. The most fitting endorsement I have heard of  it comes from MSNBC\u2019s Rachel Maddow; \u201cThe only book of the last few  years in American publishing that I would describe as a mandatory  must-read. Literally the only one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Shock Doctrine synthesises an incredible amount of information  into a single piercing argument against the myth that free markets and  democracy march hand in hand around the globe throwing cheeseburgers,  happiness and women\u2019s rights at anyone not too backward to know what\u2019s  good for them. The picture that emerges from her work rather, is one of a  rising corporatism, exploiting and sometimes creating disasters,  violence, crises and transitions \u2013 times when nations are disoriented  and vulnerable \u2013 to engineer massive movements of wealth away from the  people and into the pockets of global and local elites. These shocks are  often not enough, however, to completely erase resistance and so  further shocks; torture chambers, murders, disappearances, become  necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/austingmackell.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/12\/reading-the-shock-doctrine-in-cairo\/\">Click here to continue reading &#8220;Reading the Shock Doctrine in Cairo&#8221; by Austin G. Mackell<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin G. Mackell 12 April 2011 The Shock Doctrine, by\u00a0Naomi Klein, is the ducks fucking nuts. The most fitting endorsement I have heard of it comes from MSNBC\u2019s Rachel Maddow; \u201cThe only book of the last few years in American &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15368\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3ZS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15370,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15368\/revisions\/15370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}