Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

3 reviews

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

emmameetsearth's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

4.0

The Guardian described this as 'devastating' and that there persists a quasi-religious faith in free markets (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/15/politics). Exploring themes including

• Crisis opportunism
• Voodoo politics
• Nations inheriting debt from oppressors
• Corporatism
• Volatility of global economy - Crisis is built on crisis. 

  "An economic system that requires constant growth, while bucking almost all serious attempts at environmental regulation, generates a steady stream of disasters all on its own, whether military, ecological or financial. The appetite for easy, short-term profits offered by purely speculative investment has turned the stock, currency and real estate markets into crisis-creation machines, as the Asian financial crisis, the Mexican peso crisis and the dotcom collapse all demonstrate." 

The chapter on the 2003 Iraq war and pinochet's reign of terror really hit me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, War, and Murder

Moderate: Racism

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.75

Klein masterfully ties a lot of seemingly disparate events together in a clear and understandable way. Since so many of the events she describes happened either right before I was born or when I was a small child, I am grateful to have this context, since I didn't learn most of this in school. I only wish that she had commented more on the role of trade agreements. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Islamophobia, Violence, Child death, Death, Genocide, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Blood, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual violence