The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein, is a huge and wide-ranging book, focused on the disasters arising from Milton Friedman’s Market Fundamentalism, applied in countries around the world from Chile to, yes, the US.
I am going to take it here in chunks, not all at once. Chunk one is Friedmanite Market Fundamentalism, as applied in the coup and assassination against Salvador Allende, and all of the other torture, murder, and economic calamity involved.
Then we have dozens of other countries dragooned into Market Fundamentalism via CIA-sponsored coups and other underhanded means, plus the numerous oil and cobalt and other resource wars.
- Iran
- Brazil
- Indonesia
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
- Syria
- Congo
- Israel/Palestine
and on and on and on.