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Canadian journalist Naomi Klein (pictured at her desk), is well known for her distaste for capitalism, now she has turned her probing eye to the war in Iraq. With the help of director, Alfonso Cuaron ( Children of Men), she has produced a terse 6-minute short, on the history of American electro shock, to help promote her new book, Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Introducing extracts in her Guardian column, Klein gives a taste of what's inside: 'It's a tried-and-tested torture technique: strike fear into your victims, deprive them of cherished essentials and then eradicate their memories. In 2003, the US applied this on an enormous scale for its invasion of Iraq.' Explosive stuff - whether you agree or not.

Check out the short film The Shock Doctrine