“Today’s episode argues that economic tactics used by the United States to exploit post-Soviet Eastern Bloc countries are now being employed domestically in the Global North. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, contends that events like the collapse of the USSR were opportunities for Western elites to refine methods of “looting” through ‘shock therapy’ and privatisation. This analysis suggests that crises and disasters in the US and UK are similarly exploited to enrich elites by privatising essential services and consolidating wealth. Dr, Hoerricks, drawing on personal observations and a sense of impending systemic collapse, warns that the ‘shock doctrine’ has come home, dispossessing and controlling Western populations in the same way as it did abroad. Ultimately, the article serves as a warning and a record of this perceived economic warfare being waged against ordinary citizens.”
Here’s a link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/from-prague-to-peoria-the-shock-doctrine
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