Reviews tagging 'War'

La doctrina del shock by Naomi Klein

13 reviews

heathen's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Fantastic deconstruction of how the corporate elite work to rob the common folk of everything after disasters both natural and man-made. This has changed the way I look at the world which is the highest honor I can bestow a book. While it does deal with a lot of terrible actions and behaviors, it is ultimately a hopeful book about the power of the people to resist and repair their own communities after massive shocks. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Torture, Medical trauma, War, and Violence

nahar's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Racism, Colonisation, Genocide, Violence, and War

brynalexa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

A very important read and extremely relevant now with the current genocide of the Palestinian people. It’s all connected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, War, Deportation, Islamophobia, Murder, Sexual violence, Slavery, Classism, Racism, and Xenophobia

shermansays's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Wow. A must read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Minor: War

ccerpa's review against another edition

5.0

So damn good… she had me hooked and coming back to listen (to the audiobook) whenever I had a free moment, which is often hard for me with non-fiction books, much less one about economics! This has been in my TBR list since 2020 and I’m ashamed it took me so long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Islamophobia, Torture, Medical trauma, and Colonisation

my13s's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Colonisation, and Torture

zosiablue's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

7000 stars. I'm always going to remember reading this slowly over two months at Wild Grind each morning as summer turned to fall, and feeling the most bonkers emotions from grief to rage to hope. There has never been a book that so cleanly makes the case that free market capitalism and the US's involvement in "rebuilding" other countries is a blatant and cruel scam. And this was published in 2007! To know what's transpired since publication is to know the worst was yet to come. Astonishing,

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Classism, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Torture, War, and Xenophobia

binchsensei's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

This book was insanely good, I’d pick it up & read it again right now if it wasn’t packed with such infuriating information. We hate the CIA!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Genocide, and War

spicewitch's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Mental illness, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, Xenophobia, Death, Police brutality, Torture, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Trafficking, and Physical abuse

wetsokcs's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Racism, and Torture