Tag Archive: Tsunami


JAPAN: NO WORDS

Photograph by Itsuo Inouye

The terrible earthquake and tsunami in Northern Japan is an example of how images speak louder than words.

Blogs seem redundant!

In another context the above photo of cargo containers thrown around by the tsunami in Sendai would have a surreal beauty.

Here it serves only to help us understand the magnitude of disaster.

Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine

‘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