New Books By Alan Greenspan and Naomi Klein: One is Prophetic, One is Pathetic

September 26th, 2007 | by jeff | | Post to NewsCloud »

Klein shows how the crony capitalists running the Bush administration saw post-invasion Iraq as the perfect proving ground for all their pet free-market policies. The fantasy was that a privitazied and corporatized Iraq would become a free-market utopia that would spread the gospel of the market throughout the Middle East. Democracy would reign, and Halliburton and Bechtel would stand supreme.

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