Release Date: | Jan 28, 2010 |
Running Time: | 82 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
synopsis
Adapted from author Naomi Klein's New York Times bestseller, SHOCK DOCTRINE explores the radical theories of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, and their subsequent implementation over the past forty years, in countries and situation as disparate as Pinochet’s Chile, Yeltsin’s Russia, Thatcher’s Britain, and most recently the neo-con invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Klein exposes the darker side of Friedman’s ideology, which was so unpopular it could only be implemented through the use of torture and repression.