History

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Naomi Klein)

What the author makes inescapably clear is that the world economic order has been largely remade in Milton Friedman's image in the last few decades by adopting programs that would never have been democratically accepted by the common people. Military coups, violence and force, wars, induced hyperinflation, terrorism, preemptive war, climate disasters - these have been the disruptive vehicles that allowed such drastic economic packages to be imposed. Nearly always, they are developed in secrecy and implemented too rapidly for citizens to respond.

JFK assassination documents revealed

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DALLAS - Long-hidden items and documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were revealed for the first time Monday, after spending nearly two decades locked inside a courthouse safe. One of the most intriguing items was the typed transcript of an alleged conversation between Oswald and Ruby. The transcript includes talk of killing the president at the behest of the Mafia.