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>Here's an excerpt of a recent Naomi Klein article (she >has a book about disaster capitalism due out in the >Spring) - among other things, it equates the situation >in Iraq with the response to Katrina. A very poignant >read > ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.nologo.org/">http://www.nologo.org/</a >> > > >Pay To Be Saved: The Future of Disaster Response > >by Naomi Klein > August 29 2006 > >The Red Cross has just announced a new >disaster-response partnership with Wal-Mart. When the >next hurricane hits, it will be a co-production of Big >Aid and Big Box. > >This, apparently, is the lesson learned from the >government’s calamitous response to Hurricane >Katrina: Businesses do disaster better. > >“It’s all going to be private enterprise before >it’s over,” Billy Wagner, emergency management >chief for the Florida Keys, currently under hurricane >watch for Tropical Storm Ernesto, said in April. >“They’ve got the expertise. They’ve got the >resources.” > >But before this new consensus goes any further, >perhaps it’s time to take a look at where the >privatization of disaster began, and where it will >inevitably lead.

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