This week on Crossing The Line: Naomi Klein investigative journalist and author of The Shock Doctrine speaks with economist Shir Hever of the Alternative Information Center about Israel’s role in the disaster capitalism phenomenon, the contradictions in Israeli society, which both profits and suffers from the burdens of being a fortress state in constant conflict, and on the discourse among Israeli economists about the role of peace vs. war in the Israeli economy, then later in the podcast a commentary by The Black Agenda Report's Glenn Ford on the fall of American Imperialism.