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.
What emerges through Loewenstein\'s re-porting is a dark history of multinational corpo-rations 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..
In Papua New Guinea, he sees a local commu-nity forced to rebel against predatory resource companies and NGOs.
He debates with Western contractors in Afghanistan, meets the locals in post-earthquake Haiti, and in Greece finds a country at the mercy of vulture profiteers.
Talking to immigrants stuck in limbo in Britain or visiting immigration centers in America, Loewenstein maps the secret networks formed to help cor-porations bleed what profits they can from economic crisis.
Disaster has become big business.
He discovers how companies such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on or-ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining.
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
