DisasterCapitalism

NaomiKlein on the way international organizations treat disasters as a way to impose their agenda on (and appropriate from) other parts of the world.

• http://billtotten.blogspot.com/2007/12/disaster-capitalism.html
• http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0415-30.htm

TheLeftWing isn't prepared in the same way to take advantage of crises : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/2007-financial-crisis-go-to-waste-attlee-roosevelt-economic-catastrophe

2023 : Disaster Capitalists swooping in after the major ClimateChange damage from wildfires, hurricanes etc.

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/diaster-capitalism-maui-hawaii-real-estate-opportunism-climate-crisis-wildfires

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii-fires-maui-water-rights-disaster-capitalism

Compare :

• DisasterExtractivism
• ThomasBarnett's idea of SysAdmin
• GlobalizationAndItsDiscontents for more on the "cookie-cutter" approach of the WorldBank etc.
• BavarianFireDrill

BorisJohnson is trying to use Covid19 to privatise the NHS.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/03/government-pandemic-privatise-nhs-by-stealth

(See also ToryCorruption)