As a tentative ceasefire continues to hold in Syria, with the next round
of peace talks having resumed this week, you’d be forgiven for thinking
that there might be an end in sight to a conflict that has raged for
nearly five years.
But as with every war in the Middle East, nothing is quite as it seems.
According to Naomi Klein in her book The Shock Doctrine, corporatist (a more pertinent term for what many of us consider “neoliberal”)
policymakers — those that are inherently intertwined with both
Government and multinational companies — take advantage of catastrophes
such as economic collapse, hurricanes, terrorist attacks and even war,
to further what she describes as their “policy trinity”: the elimination
of the public sphere, total liberation for corporations and skeletal
social spending.
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