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Naomi Klein was born in Montreal, Quebec, into a Jewish family with a history of peace activism. Her parents were self-described hippies [10] who emigrated from the United States in 1967 as war resisters to the Vietnam War. [11] Her mother, documentary filmmaker Bonnie Sherr Klein, is best known for her anti-pornography film Not a Love Story. [12]
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World is a 2023 memoir and political analysis by Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker Naomi Klein.In it, Klein examines the current climate of political polarization and conspiracy thinking, by contrasting Klein's worldview with that of Naomi Wolf, for whom Klein is often confused.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein.In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic policies promoted by Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics have risen to global prominence because of a deliberate strategy she calls "disaster capitalism".
Klein’s doppelgänger trouble opens outward onto a roving survey of how doubling organizes our social and political lives. The concept of the doppelgänger, she insists, can help us understand ...
Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein and the Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji are among the finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards. Honorary prizes are going to Judy Blume and to a longtime ally of ...
It is based on the book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by his wife, Naomi Klein. [2] The film is a Canada-United States coproduction. [3] At the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was first runner-up for the People's Choice Award: Documentaries. [4]
Naomi Klein has slammed Donald Trump as “conspiracy theorist in chief” of the United States, claiming his entire political career was launched off the back of white supremacist conspiracies ...
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is Naomi Klein's fourth book; it was published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster. [1] Klein argues that the climate crisis cannot be addressed in the current era of neoliberal market fundamentalism, which encourages profligate consumption and has resulted in mega-mergers and trade agreements hostile to the health of the environment.