Naomi Klein on Carney, trade war and 'end times'
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Naomi Klein on Carney, trade war and 'end times'

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 202642 min
  • Interview
  • Politics

Celebrated author Naomi Klein joins the show to talk about how Mark Carney's response to Trump's trade war echoes themes in her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We also discuss her latest work "End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

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This is a CBC Podcast. It has been almost 20 years since Naomi Klein's investigation of the relationship between free market capitalism and crisis and her book, The Shock Doctrine, the rise of disaster capitalism. But lately, I've been hearing people bring up her shock doctrine theory in a contemporary

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