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.
