Disaster Capitalism
Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
Published on 15. September 2015
384 pages
978-1-78478-117-0 (ISBN)
Description
Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav¿els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on or¿ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining.
What emerges through Loewenstein's re¿porting is a dark history of multinational corpörations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valu¿able commodity.
What emerges through Loewenstein's re¿porting is a dark history of multinational corpörations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valu¿able commodity.
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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no
ISBN-13
978-1-78478-117-0 (9781784781170)
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Person
Antony Loewenstein is an independent Australian journalist, documentary maker and blogger who has written for the BBC, the Nation and the Washington Post. He's a weekly Guardian columnist and the author of three best-selling books, My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution and Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World. He is co-editor of After Zionism and Left Turn and co-writer of For God s Sake. His books have been translated, and his journalism has been a finalist in many global awards. He's currently working on a documentary about disaster capitalism. His website can be found at: http://antonyloewenstein.com; and Twitter: @antloewenstein
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: The Mad Max Economy
- Part I
- 1. Pakistan and Afghanistan: "Looking for the new war"
- 2. Greece: "We are just numbers, not human lives"
- 3. Haiti: "If anybody here says they've had help, it's a lie"
- 4. Papua New Guinea: "Break our bones, but you can never break our spirit"
- Part II
- 5. The United States: "The land of the free has become a country of prisons"
- 6. The United Kingdom: "It's the outsourcing of violence"
- 7. Australia: "If you have a pulse, you have a job at Serco"
- Conclusion: Breaking the Spell
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Index
