robm47 | My Amplog

You’ve noted in Shock Doctrine how disasters like this earthquake are perfect opportunities for so-called disaster capitalists to move in and profit. Are you seeing evidence of that so far in Haiti? The shock doctrine is the use of disasters to avoid democracy—using the state of dislocation following a disaster to say that people aren’t able to make decisions, so someone else needs to do it for them. But that means policies are pushed through very quickly—unpopular policies that were often on a wish list for elites anyway, but that can suddenly be implemented because people are either traumatized or literally wiped out. In the case of Haiti, the Heritage Foundation didn’t even wait 24 hours before they called for the Obama administration to reform Haiti’s economy. They also suggested that George W. Bush be appointed and, lo and behold, he was appointed the next day. So they appear to have an audience. Read more at www.newsweek.com