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Disaster capitalism : making a killing out of catastrophe / Antony Loewenstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Verso Books, 2015Description: 376 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781784781156
  • 1784781150
  • 9781784781156
  • 1784781150
  • 9781784781170
  • 1784781177
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Contents:
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."
Summary: "Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disaster Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism--the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visits Britain's immigration detention centers, tours the prison system in the United States, and digs into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism--the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visits Britain's immigration detention centers, tours the prison system in the United States, and digs into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A "keenly observed and timely investigation" of how capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe--"a potent weapon for shock resistors around the world" (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine )

Disaster 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 corporations 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 valuable commodity.

"Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disaster Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism--the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visits Britain's immigration detention centers, tours the prison system in the United States, and digs into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites"-- Provided by publisher.

"Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism--the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visits Britain's immigration detention centers, tours the prison system in the United States, and digs into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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."

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