{"product_id":"disaster-capitalism-isbn-9781784781187","title":"Disaster Capitalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “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 \u003ci\u003eThe Shock Doctrine\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisaster 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.“The forces of disaster capitalism are increasingly on the defensive, but their attacks on the global commons have expanded in the years since I wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Shock Doctrine\u003c\/i\u003e. I am very grateful that Antony Loewenstein has brought his meticulous reporting to this subject, and the result is a keenly observed and timely investigation into rampant resource plunder, privatized detention centers, and an array of other forms of corporate rapacity on four continents. This book will serve as a potent weapon for shock resistors around the world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Naomi Klein, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Changes Everything\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Shock Doctrine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Chilling study, based on careful and courageous reporting, and illuminated with perceptive analysis, helps us understand all too well the saying that man is a wolf to man.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Noam Chomsky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A journey into a world of mutated economics and corrupt politics that we ignore at our peril.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—John Pilger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A devastating, incisive follow-up to Naomi Klein’s \u003ci\u003eThe Shock Doctrine\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jeremy Scahill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Our economic system now depends upon transforming emergency relief, incarceration and the processing of asylum seekers into profits … [an] unnerving and convincing book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Owen Hatherley, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Antony Loewenstein offers us a superb description of the diminishing power of national governments and international organisations to exercise power in the modern world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Robert J. Burrowes, \u003ci\u003eLahore Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntony Loewenstein\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent Australian journalist, documentary maker and blogger who has written for the BBC, the \u003ci\u003eNation\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. He’s a weekly \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e columnist and the author of three best-selling books, \u003ci\u003eMy Israel Question\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Blogging Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World\u003c\/i\u003e. He is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAfter Zionism\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Left Turn\u003c\/i\u003e and co-writer of\u003ci\u003e For God’s Sake\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303383879909,"sku":"NP9781784781187","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781784781187.jpg?v=1767725175","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/disaster-capitalism-isbn-9781784781187","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}