Antinuclear

In Australia this week, Klein blasted Trump’s dangerous climate policies as ‘immoral and atrocious’byDeirdre Fulton, staff writer

Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein accepted the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize in Australia on Friday, delivering a searing speech that reflected on Donald Trump’s presidential victory in the United States and the factors that allowed it to happen.
“If there is a single overarching lesson in the Trump victory, perhaps it is this: Never, ever underestimate the power of hate, of direct appeals to power over the ‘other’…especially during times of economic hardship,” said Klein, whose books include The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.
Calling Trump the “demagogue of the moment,” Klein went on to identify other lessons to “take from our barely three-day-old reality.”

One, she said, is that “economic pain is real and not going anywhere—four decades of corporate, neoliberal policies and privatization, deregulation, free…