Disaster Capitalism by Antony Loewenstein

By: Antony Loewenstein

Genre: Non-Fiction Political

Verso
September 1, 2015
On Sale: September 15, 2015
Featuring:
384 pages
ISBN: 1784781169
EAN: 9781784781163
Kindle: B00RKX357U
e-Book

Book 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.

DISASTER CAPITALISM

DISASTER CAPITALISM

September 1, 2015