‘The Shock Book coverDoctrine – The Rise of Disaster Capitalism’ by Naomi Klein is a must read for anyone who still believes that the economic policies of the free market are concerned to give personal liberty for all.

Klein uses torture as a metaphor to show that the barbaric techniques used in what, in Orwellian language,the CIA call “coercive interrogation” have a parallel with the distorted thinking behind laissez-faire economics which she views as “different manifestations of the same terrifying logic“. Continue reading →