Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe (Repost)
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe By Antony Loewenstein
2017 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1784781185 | EPUB | 1 MB
2017 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 1784781185 | EPUB | 1 MB
How Capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastropheDisaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels 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 organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. What emerges through Loewenstein’s reporting is a dark history of multinational corpoarations 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 valuaable commodity.