The Nation | Column | The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein

When Paul Wofowitz was tapped to go to the World Bank, many of us saw it as "kick upstairs" for the inaccurate and unsuccesful policies leading to the Iraq debacle. However Naomi Klein disabuses us: Wolfowitz is only off to his next vision, an effort to finance the capitalistic rebuilding of disaster areas under the cloak of altruism. Once more the little people, fishermen, peasants, providentially ruined by the December tsunami, will now be pushed off their lands and shores to make way for resorts and shrimp farms, reshaping the coasts of Indonesia into playgrounds for tourists and international capital. Read on.... The Nation | Column | The Rise of Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein