Outside Agitator: Naomi Klein and the New New Lef


	Outside Agitator: Naomi Klein and the New New Lef

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12-3-2008 8:06 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9ea94c8c-6168-4228-b885-14a972128e52/ECDC6670-F6AD-4766-903E-822DFDFEF490/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/02-6" href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/02-6" style="font-size: 11px;">www.commondreams.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/02-6"><DIV class="caption"><IMG height="324" align="bottom" width="233" alt="[Responding to the financial crisis, Klein says, “This is a progressive moment: it’s ours to lose.” Photograph by Platon.]" class="imagefield imagefield-field_image" title="Naomi1202.jpg" src="http://www.commondreams.org/files/article_images/Naomi1202.jpg" />Responding to the financial crisis, Klein says, “This is a progressive moment: it’s ours to lose.” Photograph by Platon.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/02-6">Then she noticed that Friedman had
suggested taking advantage of Hurricane Katrina to replace New
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was striking. But now that a shock had shaken Washington itself,
something slightly different seemed to be going on. On the one hand,
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