anybody else read naomi klein's 'shock doctrine' detailing the strategies of milton friedman's chicago boys and their attempts to export shock capitalism to economies they don't approve of across the world? started with support for pinochet, and with the help of reagan and thatcher has developed since then with all the upheavals and misery of the free-market adventure that we have become used to - from south america, far east, soviet union, poland etc and now uk and usa. i've always looked at things from a left perspective but had never realised the extent of the viciousness and mendacity of global capitalism. i'm shocked on every other page - a real horror story.

it seems there is no ordinary person around the world who benefits from this and no-one outside the 1% who is prepared to support it. yet it has become the model and only system that we must accept. why? many countries are democracies - why have we let that power be stolen from us? why aren't we more angry? next thing there will be financiers from the IMF in the cabinet, sidelining the wishes of old democracies like greece. oh.....