We don't often sell paperback editions of hardcover books in the BuzzFlash Marketplace, but for "The Shock Doctrine" we'll make one of our exceptions.

Suffice it to say, BuzzFlash is a big Naomi Klein fan. She sees the forest through the trees and nails down the economic forces at work that are creating a new empire of corporate rule that is inherently dependent upon economic unjustice.

For anyone who wants to understand what "globalization" is all about and how corporations are now superceding national sovereignty on an accelerating basis, Klein is the person to read -- and "The Shock Doctrine" provides essential insight into what lies behind the screen of nationalist pablum propaganda.

That is why we are selling the paperback edition of "The Shock Doctrine" just released on June 24th in the United States.

"A highly polemical, and persuasive, assault on free-market fundamentalism. She rips into the big-business agenda to show how economic opportunists need and promote misery and disaster, challenging us to look at world-changing events....Klein upends assumptions and demands that we think -- her book is thrilling, troubling and very dark."

- Los Angeles Times


One of the world's most famous antiglobalization activists and the author of the best seller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, Klein provides a rich description of the political machinations required to force unsavory economic policies on resisting countries, and of the human toll. She paints a disturbing portrait of hubris, not only on the part of Friedman but also of those who adopted his doctrines, sometimes to pursue more corporatist objectives.

-- The New York Times