October 14, 2007

Broadcast Date: 
Oct 14 2007

Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, and Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater, discuss the perils of privatization.

Episode segments
  • Blackwater
    Iraq War
    Jeremy Scahill is the Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Blackwater.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Jeremy Scahill discusses his new book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Nation Books) and speaks about the significance of the privatization of war and Blackwater's connections to the Christian right.

  • The Shock Doctrine
    Foreign Policy
    Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller No Logo and, most recently, The Shock Doctrine
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    In her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Metropolitan Books), Naomi Klein shows how conservative leaders exploit natural disasters, wars, and other crises to forward their agenda of radical privatization.