Wildfires are raging out of control all over the world. Huge fires are just nine miles away from the city of Bordeaux in ...

On a Hawaiian tourist brochure, fire and water are selling points for a volcanic paradise where lava flows and waterfalls mist. But with hundreds still unaccounted for in the cremated heart of Lahaina ...

Disaster capitalism arises when private interests and market logics exploit the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes and other extreme events in the Caribbean, deepening existing inequalities.

On the morning of August 11, days after wildfires destroyed Lahaina, a historic town on Maui and the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, residents spotted a boat letting tourists into the sea to ...

If anything, the stories of corruption and incompetence serve to mask this deeper scandal: the rise of a predatory form of disaster capitalism that uses the desperation and fear created by catastrophe ...

It’s been one year since the Eaton Fire destroyed thousands of homes in the historically Black neighborhood of Altadena. Ever since, community leaders have been working to ensure recovery doesn’t mean ...

Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Holt: c. 2007) exposes what Klein believes to be sinister manipulation of catastrophic events by conservatives. Her other books ...

Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute Yaron Brook and George Mason University professor Bryan Caplan debate the resolution, "Anarcho-capitalism would definitely be a complete disaster for humanity." ...

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It is published with support from the CO2 Foundation. Every ...

Naomi Klein is the author of a veddy interesting book called "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,"about how "people with power ... are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and ...

Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute Yaron Brook and George Mason University professor Bryan Caplan debate the resolution, "Anarcho-capitalism would definitely be a complete disaster for humanity." ...

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