Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

Disaster 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.<br><br>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.