Disaster capitalism: how to make money out of misery

Disaster capitalism: how to make money out of misery

The privatisation of aid after Katrina offers a glimpse of a
terrifying future in which only the wealthy are saved

Naomi Klein
Wednesday August 30, 2006
The Guardian

The Red Cross has just announced a new disaster-response partnership
with Wal-Mart. When the next hurricane hits, it will be a
co-production of Big Aid and Big Box. This, apparently, is the lesson
learned from the US government's calamitous response to Hurricane
Katrina: businesses do disaster better...

Unless a radical change of course is demanded, New Orleans will prove
to be a glimpse of a dystopian future, a future of disaster apartheid
in which the wealthy are saved and everyone else is left behind.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1860821,00.html

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Lew