
Profits of Doom
How vulture capitalism is swallowing the world
by Antony Loewenstein
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Pub Date Aug 01 2013 | Archive Date May 03 2014
Description
Vulture capitalism has seen the corporation become more powerful
than the state, and yet its work is often done by stealth, supported by
political and media elites. The result is privatised wars and outsourced
detention centres, mining companies pillaging precious land in
developing countries and struggling nations invaded by NGOs and the
corporate dollar.
Best-selling journalist Antony
Loewenstein travels to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea
and across Australia to witness the reality of this largely hidden world
of privatised detention centres, outsourced aid, destructive resource
wars and militarized private security. Who is involved and why? Can it
be stopped? What are the alternatives in a globalised world? Profits of Doom challenges the fundamentals of our unsustainable way of life and the money-making imperatives driving it.
A Note From the Publisher
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Advance Praise
'In Australia, so often bereft of voices of dissent and courage, Antony Loewenstein's tenacious work stands out. Profits of Doom
is a journey into a world of mutated economics and corrupt politics
that we ignore at our peril.' - John Pilger, independent investigative
journalist, author and documentary film-maker
'A
great exercise in joining the dots, on essential terrain that too often
is ignored. At a time when rapacious private interests campaign to
destroy government - so they can cash in on its absence - Loewenstein
reports from the frontline in an insidious war.' - Paul McGeough, author
of Kill Khalid and chief foreign correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald
'The
competition for the most depraved example of the predatory state
capitalism of the Reagan-Thatcher neoliberal era is fierce. In this
chilling study, based on careful and courageous reporting, and
illuminated with perceptive analysis, Antony Loewenstein presents many
competitors for the prize, while also helping us understand all too well
the saying that man is a wolf to man.' - Noam Chomsky, Institute
Professor at MIT and Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, political
activist and author
'Profits of Doom
nails the mad idea that the drive for profits will create global
wellbeing. Antony Loewenstein delivers a spine-chilling account of the
post 9/11 world taken over by vulture capitalism and its political
cronies. And this is what we are voting for.' Bob Brown, former leader
of the Australian Greens and director of Sea Shepherd
'Antony Loewenstein's Profits of Doom
is a powerful indictment of the corporations and governments across the
globe whose unquenchable thirst for resources and power threaten the
stability - perhaps even the very existence - of the planet. Loewenstein
is no armchair academic or cubicle journalist. The stories in this book
are the product of years embedded, in military and economic warzones,
with the disempowered of the world, the people from Pakistan to Papua
New Guinea and beyond who have the audacity and bravery to fight back
against all odds. Loewenstein's keen sense of justice is evident on
every page of this book as he gives voice to the voiceless and confronts
the powerful. Profits of Doom is a devastating, incisive follow-up to Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine.' - Jeremy Scahill, international best-selling author of Dirty Wars and Blackwater
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780522858822 |
PRICE | A$32.99 (AUD) |