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Originally Posted by sammi jo 
Who is going to oversee "reconstruction efforts", who will be paying for them, and who will eventually benefit? Will Haiti, as a result of what Naomi Klein has described in her excellent book "The Shock Doctrine", (how disasters, both natural and manmade are capitalized upon by special interests) become a Caribbean tropical haven catering for tourists and 2nd, 3rd and 4th homes for the wealthy; where the locals lose their land and property and end up working for slave wages for multinational corporations?
Who is going to oversee "reconstruction efforts", who will be paying for them, and who will eventually benefit? Will Haiti, as a result of what Naomi Klein has described in her excellent book "The Shock Doctrine", (how disasters, both natural and manmade are capitalized upon by special interests) become a Caribbean tropical haven catering for tourists and 2nd, 3rd and 4th homes for the wealthy; where the locals lose their land and property and end up working for slave wages for multinational corporations?
Good point. Americans usually forget that their Hollywood celebrity binges turned Cuba into an American doormat, and were just as responsible for the rise of Castro as anyone else.
Klein's work is typically one-sided (lefties use disasters for their own purposes just as often) but there is merit to discussing how Haiti will be protected from international raiding.
The evil that we fight is but the shadow of the evil that we do.
The evil that we fight is but the shadow of the evil that we do.
