Jessica Corbett

With the focus on dramatic images of聽German riot police using tear gas and high-powered water聽to disperse G20 protesters in Hamburg on July 6,聽the message from those demonstrating in the streets was clear for those willing to listen: a better world is possible.

In her previous books The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs (2000), Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein took on topics like neoliberal 鈥渟hock therapy,鈥 consumerism, globalisation and 鈥渄isaster capitalism鈥. Klein extensively documented the forces behind the dramatic rise in economic inequality and environmental degradation over the past 50 years.