Tag: Yasmin Nair

• The Democratic Cliff

  The current metaphor of “the fiscal cliff” marks the return of a few common tropes in American politics.  First is the latest incarnation of what Naomi Klein has referred to as the Shock Doctrine, the use and sometimes manufacturing of “crisis” situations to force people to accept right wing / neoliberal policies that legislative bodies…

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  December 28, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Economics, Politics

  Austerity, Barack Obama, Bill Black, Economics, Fiscal Cliff, Folk Implosion, Left media, Neoliberalism, Politics, The Real News Network, USA, Walter Ben Michaels, Washington Consensus, Yasmin Nair