| Posted: 02 Dec 2015 05:08 PM PST – St Stanislaus College Blog
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 such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining……. [Note: 2 videos below] Videos:
Making Money from Misery: Antony Loewenstein on his new book ‘Disaster Capitalism’–
Published on Oct 9, 2015
When disaster strikes, who profits? That’s the question asked by journalist Antony Loewenstein in his new book, “Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe.” Traveling across the globe, Loewenstein examines how companies such as G4S, Serco and Halliburton are cashing in on calamity, and describes how they are deploying for-profit private contractors to war zones and building for-profit private detention facilities to warehouse refugees, prisoners and asylum seekers. Recently, Loewenstein teamed up with filmmaker Thor Neureiter for a documentary by the same name that chronicles how international aid and investment has impacted communities in Haiti, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and beyond. |
Loewenstein: Disaster Capitalism
Comments
Thanks for raising this issue.
Not convinced with his point. What are the other options. Who else could do the work? the Chinese? They are a more ruthless capitalist. Contractors from other countries (e.g. India) will be cheaper but do not have all the resources and know-how.