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Sat 09 Sep 2007Making capital out of fearCurrent Affairs:Naomi Klein, the award-winning Guardian columnist and best-selling author of the seminal No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (2000), has just completed her most ambitious project to date.With the publication of Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Klein may have achieved what many political leaders, economists and journalists the world over have failed to do during the tumultuous tenure of the current Bush administration - namely to forensically prove that a "rolling coup" has taken place within the US that has subordinated its domestic and foreign policy imperatives to corporate interests and naked greed by way of the implementation of ruinous and violent strategies from the Bayou in Louisiana to the banks of the Tigris in Iraq.