Interview: Naomi Klein

There's an interesting interview with Naomi Klein on the AV Club page:

In her current best-selling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism, journalist Naomi Klein takes aim at Chicago School Of Economics guru Milton Friedman's notion that "only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change." Around the globe, Klein finds examples of how the implementation of what she's coined "the shock doctrine" is used to exploit a public reeling from natural or man-made disasters to implement economic and social policies to which they would never have otherwise submitted. "Disaster capitalism," as she calls it, has cropped up in post-tsunami Sri Lanka, the occupation of Iraq, and of course, our own backyard in the aftermath of September 11. On the eve of the Beijing Olympics and the increasing noise of our Presidential campaign, Klein sat down with The A.V. Club to discuss offshore oil drilling, the price of gas, Barack Obama, Fox News, Lou Dobbs, and the shame of the Summer Games.