A Summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights Contents Universal Declaration of Human Rights Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Convention Against Torture Convention Against Genocide The Geneva Conventions Convention on the Rights of the Child Convention [...]
Archive | November, 2007
A Very Capitalist Disaster: Naomi Klein’s Take on the Neoliberal Saga
A critical review of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007) Walden Bello* (http://www.focusweb.org) Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism is very impressive indeed. This is, however, not immediately evident, a sense that is confirmed by Joseph Stiglitz’s review of the book. Even [...]
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Latin America’s Shock Resistance
Focus on Trade. Number 134, November 2007 http://www.focusweb.org Naomi Klein*Â Â Â Â Â IN less than two years, the lease on the largest and most important US military base in Latin America will run out. The base is in Manta, Ecuador, and Rafael Correa, the country’s leftist president, has pronounced that he will renew the lease “on [...]
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