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Permit me to put my comments upfront to reduce flammage. I'm posting this vomitous rant because of the violent, murderous, left-wing and/or islamist insurgencies and organizations that Klien lauds, glorifies or defends. This provides the beginning of a pretty fair rundown of the main terrorist outfits the hard-left is pushing as "liberation" movements. Please feel free to add to the list This is really a war on dissentersSeptember 8, 2003 The Marriott Hotel in Jakarta was still burning when Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesia's Security Minister, explained the implications of the day's attack: "Those who criticise about human rights being breached...

THE battle to save the world is an arduous and paradoxical one. Today's most visible scourge of globalisation and brands is herself an inexhaustible globetrotting brand: a 32-year-old Canadian journalist, armed with little more than a portable computer, a plane ticket and Internet access. Naomi Klein is the pre-eminent figure (she would deplore the term “leader”) in a worldwide protest movement against companies, free trade and global integration—in effect, against capitalism—that has no name or organisation, but is the most vigorous expression of leftist sentiment since the 1960s. The movement burst on to the scene in Seattle in December 1999,...

Imagine a world without McDonald’s, Nike, or Kraft Foods. A world where the budget-conscious and time-strapped have nowhere to grab a quick bite, where almost no one drives a car, where television is extinct. Sound pretty bleak? This is the utopian vision of the Adbusters Media Foundation. “We will wreck this world,” Kalle Lasn declares in his book Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge -- and Why We Must. That, quite simply, is the goal of the Vancouver-based organization he founded and runs. A self-described group of “anarchists” and “neo-Luddites,” Adbusters are not merely environmentalists, animal-rights activists,...