by Naomi Klein
Oscar Olivera and Tom Lewis, Cochabamba!: Water War in Bolivia (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2004), 9.
Bechtel: sued Bolivia for $50 million in damages and lost revenue
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, “The Obscure Legal System That Lets Corporations Sue Countries,” Guardian, June 10, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/10/obscure-legal-system-lets-corportations-sue-states-ttip-icsid.
Teamsters and Turtles—Together at Last!
Banner: “Teamsters and Turtles: Together at last.”
Marc Cooper, “Teamsters and Turtles: They’re Together at Last,” Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1999, http://articles.latimes.com/1999/dec/02/local/me-39707.
Vacuum, Meet Trump
National Post: “Anti-globalization is so yesterday.”
Dave Oswald Mitchell, “Disaster Populism,” Briarpatch, December 1, 2008, https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/disaster-populism-the-left-in-crisis/trackback/.
Mexico’s poverty rate has risen since implementation of NAFTA
Center for Economic and Policy Research, “Mexico Lagged the Rest of Latin America in the NAFTA Era, Report Finds,” press release, March 29, 2017, http://cepr.net/press-center/press-releases/mexico-lagged-the-rest-of-latin-america-in-the-nafta-era-report-finds.
Marine Le Pen: “manufacturing by slaves for selling to the unemployed”
“France Election: Far-Right’s Le Pen Rails against Globalisation,” BBC.com, February 5, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38872335.
Bernie Sanders: TPP “part of a global race to the bottom…”
“Bernie Sanders on Trade,” Feel the Bern (website), accessed April 12, 2017, from http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-trade/.
The Perils of Ceding the Populist Ground
Approximately 90 million eligible voting-age Americans stayed home
United States Elections Project, “2016 November General Election Turnout Rates,” ElectProject.org, http://www.electproject.org/2016g.
Nonprofit VOTE and the U.S. Elections Project, “America Goes to The Polls 2016: A Report on Voter Turnout in the 2016 Election,” NonprofitVote.org, accessed April 12 2017, http://www.nonprofitvote.org/documents/2017/03/america-goes-polls-2016.pdf.
Trump and Clinton each got roughly 25 percent of total eligible voters
Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, “2016 Presidential General Election Results,” USElectionsAtlas.org, http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/.
United States Elections Project, “2016 November General Election Turnout Rates,” ElectProject.org, http://www.electproject.org/2016g.
No, Oprah and Zuckerberg Will Not Save Us
Trump: “Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich”
Ashleigh Banfield, Rich McHugh, and Suzan Clarke, “Exclusive: Donald Trump Would Spend $600 Million of His Own Money on Presidential Bid,” ABC News online, March 17, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-president-trump-weighs-sheen-palin-obama/story?id=13154163.
Trump: “very smart”
Valerie Strauss, “President Trump Is Smarter Than You. Just Ask Him,” Washington Post, February 9, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/02/09/president-trump-is-smarter-than-you-just-ask-him/?utm_term=.9ad05367fa5c.
Frank Bruni: “Why don’t we just stitch him a red cape…”
Frank Bruni, “Jared Kushner, Man of Steel,” New York Times, April 5, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/opinion/jared-kushner-man-of-steel.html.
Business Insider listicle: “10 ways Bill Gates is Saving the World”
Jay Yarrow, “10 Ways Bill Gates Is Saving the World,” Business Insider, August 4, 2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-saving-the-world-2011-8.
Gates Foundation worth $40 billion
Julia Reed, “Melinda Gates Focuses the World’s Largest Foundation on Gender,” Wall Street Journal, November 2, 2016, https://www.wsj.com/articles/melinda-gates-focuses-the-worlds-largest-foundation-on-gender-1478135700.
Backfiring of Gates Foundation’s silver-bullet fixes
Bill Gates, 2009 Annual Letter (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, January 2009), accessed from: https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/Documents/2009-bill-gates-annual-letter.pdf.
Davos’s 2017 summit: Shakira and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver
World Economic Forum, “Arts and Culture in Davos 2017,” WEForum.org, accessed April 12, 2017, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Media/AM17/AM17_Arts_brochure.pdf.
Gates: a new $460-million fund to fight the spread of infectious disease
World Economic Forum, “CEPI Initiative Aims to Prepare Vaccines to Speed Up Global Response to Epidemics,” press release, January 19, 2017, https://www.weforum.org/press/2017/01/cepi-initiative-aims-to-prepare-vaccines-to-speed-up-global-response-to-epidemics/.
Barack Obama accepting $400,000 for a speech to a Wall Street audience
Michael D. Shear and Kate Kelly, “Obama Balances Civic-Minded Side with the Lure of a $400,000 Speech,” New York Times, April 26, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/us/politics/obama-speech-fee.html.
CHAPTER 7
Learn to Love Economic Populism
Sanders: carried more than 20 states, with 13 million votes
Richard E. Berg-Andersson, “Democratic Convention 2016,” The Green Papers (website), updated August 19, 2016, http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/D.
Wilson Andrews, Kitty Bennett, and Alicia Parlapiano, “2016 Delegate Count and Primary Results,” New York Times online, updated July 5, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/primary-calendar-and-results.html.
National polls showed Sanders had a better chance of beating Trump than Clinton did
Real Clear Politics, “Polls: 2016 Presidential Race,” RealClearPolitics.com, undated, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html.
Whose Revolution?
Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The spectacle of a socialist candidate…”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders against Reparations?” Atlantic, January 19, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/bernie-sanders-reparations/424602/.
Michelle Alexander: “If progressives think they can win…”
Michelle Alexander, interview with author.
A Toxic Cocktail around the World
Clinton campaign: “Love trumps Hate”
MJ Lee and Dan Merica, “Clinton’s last campaign speech: ‘Love trumps hate,’ ” CNN.com, November 7, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/07/politics/hillary-clinton-campaign-final-day/.
PART III – HOW IT COULD GET WORSE: THE SHOCKS TO COME
“If you don’t know history…”
Howard Zinn, You Can’t Be Neutral On a Moving Train (Documentary), 2014
CHAPTER 8
Masters of Disasters: Doing an End Run around Democracy
The “emerald city”
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006), 18–19, 58.
Guided by an ethic of “shoot first, ask questions later”
Michael S. Schmidt, “Anger in Iraq after Plea Bargain over 2005 Massacre,” New York Times, January 24, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/world/middleeast/anger-in-iraq-after-plea-bargain-over-haditha-killings.html?action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article.
Bremer: 15 percent flat tax in Iraq
Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus, “U.S. Administrator Imposes Flat Tax System on Iraq,” Washington Post, November 2, 2003, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/11/02/us-administrator-imposes-flat-tax-system-on-iraq/6d12223d-0f53-4053-ac3e-
4c9484eed144/?utm_term=.2cd2e1574018.
“Iraq’s missing billions”
Maggie O’Kane, “Iraq’s missing billions,” Guardian, March 20, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/20/post4.
Democracy, Suspended until Further Notice
Koch brothers: “libertarians”
Jane Mayer, “Covert Operations,” New Yorker, August 30, 2010, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/08/30/covert-operations.
Doing It Fast and All at Once
Machiavelli: “For injuries ought to be done all at one time…”
Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince, trans. W.K. Marriot, Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm.
Joseph Stiglitz: “market fundamentalism”
D. Joseph Stiglitz, “Moving beyond Market Fundamentalism to a More Balanced Economy,” Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 80, 3 (2009): 345–60, https://sipa.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/j.1467-8292.2009.00389.x.pdf.
Milton Friedman book Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), ix.
Richard Nixon: “make the economy scream”
Peter Kornbluh, “Kissinger and Chile: The Declassified Record,” National Security Archive, George Washington University, September 11, 2013.
Friedman: “shock treatment” approach to economics
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 94.
Eduardo Galeano: “How can this inequality…”
Eduardo Galeano, Days and Nights of Love and War, trans. Judith Brister (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983), 130.
The Opposite of Decency
$3 billion privately donated in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz, Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?, Center for Global Development, CGD Policy Paper 004 (May 2012), https://www.cgdev.org/files/1426185_file_Ramachandran_Walz_haiti_FINAL.pdf.
Rebecca Solnit: disasters have a way of bringing out the best in us
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell (New York: Penguin, 2009).
The Art of the Steal
Trump: “I rented him a piece of land…”
Jillian Rayfield, “Donald Trump Tells Fox and Friends: ‘I Screwed’ Gaddafi,” Talking Points Memo, March 21, 2011, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/donald-trump-tells-em-fox-and-friends-em-i-screwed-gaddafi.
Trump in Think Big: “You hear lots of people say that a great deal is when both sides win…”
Donald J. Trump and Bill Zanker, Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 48.
Trump: “crime-infested”
Donald Trump, tweet, posted by @realDonaldTrump, January 14, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/820425770925338624?lang=en.
Trump: sites of “carnage”
Donald Trump, tweet, posted by @realDonaldTrump, January 25, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/824080766288228352?lang=en.
Violent crime rate has actually been declining nationwide for decades
Lori Robertson, “Dueling Claims on Crime Trend,” FactCheck.org, July 13, 2016, http://www.factcheck.org/2016/07/dueling-claims-on-crime-trend/.
A Career Forged in Shock
New York Daily News: “Ford to City: Drop Dead”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 1.
Local television broadcast: “beggars can’t be choosers”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 258.
Trump: “a new skin” of Hyatt
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 258; Michael A. Hiltzik, “Donald J Trump: N.Y.’s ‘Landlord’ May Be Shopping on the West Coast,” Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1988.
Phillips-Fein: “Trump would be allowed…”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 258.
Trump: $360-million tax break windfall
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 258.
Architectural critic: “an out-of-towner’s vision of city life”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 259.
Phillips-Fein: “Donald Trump and the developers who exploited…”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 267.
Trump: with the Towers gone, he now had the tallest building in Manhattan
Jenna Johnson, “On 9/11, Trump Noted on TV That His Financial District Building Was Now the ‘Tallest,’ ” Washington Post, September 11, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/11/on-911-trump-noted-that-he-now-owned-the-financial-districts-tallest-building/?utm_term=.6ccdb8e7b389.
Phillips-Fein: “this deep level of fear…”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (New York: Metropolitan, 2017), 267.
Meet the Disaster Capitalism Cabinet
Exxon exploited the Iraq war to defy State Department advice and make an exploration deal…
Dmitry Zhdannikov, Isabel Coles, and Ned Parker, “Special Report: How Exxon Helped Make Iraqi Kurdistan,” Reuters.com, December 3, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-kurdistan-specialrepor-idUSKCN0JH18720141204.
As an executive at Exxon, Tillerson spent his career working for a company that decided to fund and spread misinformation and junk climate science
Katie Jennings, Dino Grandoni, and Suzanne Rust, “How Exxon Went from Leader to Skeptic on Climate Change Research,” Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2015, http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-research/.
All the while, according to an LA Times investigation, ExxonMobil…
Amy Lieberman and Suzanne Rust, “Braced for Global Warming While It Fought Regulations,” Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2015, http://graphics.latimes.com/oil-operations/.
Tillerson: “So we will adapt to this…”
Council on Foreign Relations, “CEO Speaker Series: A Conversation with Rex W. Tillerson,” CFR.org, June 27, 2012, http://www.cfr.org/world/ceo-speaker-series-conversation-rex-w-tillerson/p35286.
Trump: “I can look in their faces…”
“Donald Trump on Syrian Kids: I Can Look in Their Faces and Say ‘You Can’t Come,’ ” YouTube video, 2:47, posted by HipsterBlood, March 8, 2016.
Trump: “beautiful babies”
Miriam Valverde, “For Trump, No Signal Yet Refugee Policy Will Change after U.S. Airstrike in Syria,” Politifact, April 7, 2017, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/apr/07/after-syrian-missile-airstrikes-will-trump-change-/.
Stocks of two largest private prison companies soared by 43 and 21 percent
Heather Long, “Private Prison Stocks Up 100% since Trump’s Win,” CNN.com, February 24, 2017, http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/investing/private-prison-stocks-soar-trump/.
ICE: 34,000 illegal immigrants; 73 percent of whom are held in private facilities
Associated Press, “Trump’s Stance on Illegal Immigration May Aid Private Prisons,” Denver Post, November 23, 2016, http://www.denverpost.com/2016/11/23/donald-trump-illegal-immigration-may-aid-private-prisons/.
Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan at Boeing
Dominic Gates and Jim Brunner, “Trump Taps Boeing Executive
Pat Shanahan for Deputy Secretary of Defense,” Seattle Times, March 16, 2017.
Lee Fang: “President Donald Trump has weaponized the revolving door…”
Lee Fang, “Donald Trump Is Filling Top Pentagon and Homeland Security Positions with Defense Contractors,” TheIntercept.com, March 21, 2017, https://theintercept.com/2017/03/21/revolving-door-military/.
Trump: increase spending on the military, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security by more than $80 billion in just one year
John Yang, “Trump Budget Seeks to Boost Defense Spending, Slash State Department and EPA,” PBS.org, March 16, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/trump-budget-seeks-boost-defense-spending-slash-state-department-epa/.
Daniel Gross: “Homeland security may have just reached the stage…”
Daniel Gross, “The Homeland Security Bubble,” Slate, June 1, 2005, http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2005/06/the_homeland_security_bubble.html.
Lt. General Keith Kellogg at Cubic Defense: “our ground combat training business…”
Ben Kamisar, “Trump Taps Keith Kellogg for National Security Council Post,” The Hill, December 15, 2016, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/310600-trump-taps-keith-kellogg-for-national-security-council-post.
Idea that war could ever definitively end quaint relic of “pre–September 11 thinking”
