![]() ![]() Her friend in New Orleans said "I really don't see it as cleaning up the city - what I see is a lot of people got killed uptown. She says that hearing all the talk of "fresh starts" and "clean sheets" from Republican congressmen, you could almost forget the toxic stew of rubble, chemical outflows and human remains just a few miles down the highway. The author's story of the theme "blank is beautiful - three decades of erasing and reinventing the world" begins in New Orleans after floods devastated the city two years ago. This review originally ran in Socialist Appeal issue 159 in the UK. Barbara Humphries reviews Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism". ![]()
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