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Naomi KleinFellowNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is set to be translated into 20 languages to date. The Take, its six-minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals and was a viral phenomenon, downloaded more than a million times. Her previous book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, was also an international bestseller, translated into more than 28 languages with more than a million copies in print. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (Picador) was published in 2002. Naomi Klein writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina's occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was an official selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute's Film Festival in Los Angeles. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King's College, Nova Scotia.
For more information, visit her website, naomiklein.org.
Selected Articles and Appearances:
Obama's Chicago Boys Regime-Quakes in Burma and China Players, Not Cheerleaders Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not A Smear Disowned By The Ownership Society Push-button policing: Why talk when you can shock?
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BlackwaterThe Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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