Full of good ideas
Being a war-monger in 2006 is no easy task.
Friends are leaving the cause.
What to do?
Bomb Iran (that’ll surely distract the pundits from any personal involvement in the Iraq debacle.)
Disaster has become big business. Talking to immigrants stuck in limbo in Britain or visiting immigration centers in America, Loewenstein maps the secret networks formed to help corporations bleed what profits they can from economic crisis. 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. In Papua New Guinea, he sees a local community forced to rebel against predatory resource companies and NGOs.
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. Disaster Capitalism is published by Verso in 2015 and in paperback in January 2017.
Being a war-monger in 2006 is no easy task.
Friends are leaving the cause.
What to do?
Bomb Iran (that’ll surely distract the pundits from any personal involvement in the Iraq debacle.)