The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism

Introduction : blank is beautiful : three decades of erasing and remaking the world

The torture lab : Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind

The other Doctor Shock : Milton Friedman and the search for a laissez-faire laboratory

States of shock : the bloody birth of the counter-revolution

Cleaning the slate : terror does its work

"Entirely unrelated" : how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes

Saved by a war : Thatcherism and its useful enemies

The new Dr. Shock : economic warfare replaces dictatorship

Crisis works : the packaging of shock therapy

Slamming the door on history : a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China

Democracy born in chains : South Africa's constricted freedom

Bonfire of a young democracy : Russia chooses "the Pinochet option"

The capitalist ID : Russia and the new era of the boor market

Let it burn : the looting of Asia and "the fall of the second Berlin Wall"

Shock therapy in the U.S.A. : the Homeland security bubble

A corporatist state : removing the revolving door, putting in an archway

Erasing Iraq : in search of a "model" for the Middle East

Ideological blowback : a very capitalist disaster

Full circle : from blank slate to scorched earth

Blanking the beach : "the second tsunami"

Disaster apartheid : a world of green zones and red zones

Losing the peace incentive : Israel as warning

Conclusion : shock wears off : the rise of people's reconstruction.

Introduction : Blank is beautiful: three decades of erasing and remaking the world

Part 1. Two doctor shocks: research and development : The torture lab: Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind

The other doctor shock: Milton Friedman and the search for a Laissez-Faire laboratory

Part 2. The first test: birth pangs : States of shock: the blood birth of the counterrevolution

Cleaning the slate: terror does its work

"Entirely unrelated": how an ideology was cleansed of its crimes

Part 3. Surviving democracy: bombs made of laws : Saved by a war: Thatcherism and its useful enemies

The new doctor shock: economic warfare replaces dictatorship

Crisis works: the packaging of shock therapy

Part 4. Lost in transition: while we wept, while we trembled, while we danced : Slamming the door on history: a crisis in Poland, a massacre in China

Democracy born in chains: South Africa's constricted freedom

Bonfire of a young democracy: Russia chooses "the Pinochet option"

The capitalist id: Russia and the new era of the boor

Let it burn: the looting of Asia and "the fall of a second Berlin wall"

Part 5. Shocking times: the rise of the disaster capitalism complex : Shock therapy in the U.S.A.: the Homeland Security bubble

A corporatist state: removing the revolving door, putting in an archway

Part 6. Iraq, full circle: overshock : Erasing Iraq: in search of a "model" for the Middle East

Ideological blowback: a very capitalist disaster

Full circle: from blank slate to scorched earth

Part 7. The movable green zone: buffer zones and blast walls

Blanking the beach: "the second tsunami"

Disaster apartheid: a world of green zones and red zones

Losing the peace incentive: Israel as warning

Conclusion: Shock wears off: the rise of people's reconstruction.