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6 produkter
6 produkter
Capitalism's Achilles Heel
Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
321 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism’s Achilles Heel, Baker takes readers on a fascinating journey through the global free-market system and reveals how dirty money, poverty, and inequality are inextricably intertwined. Readers will discover how small illicit transactions lead to massive illegalities and how staggering global income disparities are worsened by the illegalities that permeate international capitalism. Drawing on his experiences, Baker shows how Western banks and businesses use secret transactions and ignore laws while handling some $1 trillion in illicit proceeds each year. He also illustrates how businesspeople, criminals, and kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds and how these tactics negatively affect individuals, institutions, and countries.
Cultural Cleansing in Iraq
Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
318 kr
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Why did the invasion of Iraq result in the destruction of culture and murder of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to remake it as a client regime. Post-invasion chaos created conditions under which the cultural foundations of the state could be undermined. The authors painstakingly document the consequences of the occupiers' wilful inaction and worse, which led to the ravaging of one of the world's oldest recorded cultures. Targeted assassination of over 400 academics, kidnapping and the forced flight of thousands of doctors, lawyers, artists and other intellectuals add up to cultural cleansing.This book lays to rest claims that the invasion aimed to free an educated population to develop its own culture of democracy.
Cultural Cleansing in Iraq
Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered
Inbunden, Engelska, 2009
899 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Why did the invasion of Iraq result in the destruction of culture and murder of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to remake it as a client regime. Post-invasion chaos created conditions under which the cultural foundations of the state could be undermined. The authors painstakingly document the consequences of the occupiers' wilful inaction and worse, which led to the ravaging of one of the world's oldest recorded cultures. Targeted assassination of over 400 academics, kidnapping and the forced flight of thousands of doctors, lawyers, artists and other intellectuals add up to cultural cleansing.This book lays to rest claims that the invasion aimed to free an educated population to develop its own culture of democracy.
321 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism’s Achilles Heel, Baker takes readers on a fascinating journey through the global free-market system and reveals how dirty money, poverty, and inequality are inextricably intertwined. Readers will discover how small illicit transactions lead to massive illegalities and how staggering global income disparities are worsened by the illegalities that permeate international capitalism. Drawing on his experiences, Baker shows how Western banks and businesses use secret transactions and ignore laws while handling some $1 trillion in illicit proceeds each year. He also illustrates how businesspeople, criminals, and kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds and how these tactics negatively affect individuals, institutions, and countries.
Invisible Trillions
How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
287 kr
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356 kr
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Varför resulterade invasionen av Irak 2003 i en sådan kulturell förödelse och så många mord på intellektuella? Det konventionella svaret är att det var en följd av dålig planering och otursamma omständigheter i ett krig som hade till avsikt att befria irakierna. Författarna till den här boken hävdar att verkligheten är en helt annan. De visar att invasionen syftade till att rasera den irakiska staten för att omvandla den till en västvänlig lydstat. Det kaos som uppstod efter invasionen var ingen olycklig tillfällighet utan en medveten avsikt. En situation skulle skapas så att statens själva grundvalar underminerades. Författarna redogör noggrant för ockupanternas kallhamrade overksamhet, som ledde till ödeläggelsen av en av världens äldsta bevarade kulturer. Förutom förstörandet av oskyddade museer och bibliotek dokumenteras de riktade morden på närmare 500 akademiker, de omfattande kidnappningarna och fördrivningen av tusentals läkare, jurister, konstnärer och andra intellektuella. De visar att Irak utsatts för en systematisk kulturell rensning, som varit en del av en medveten strategi för att försvaga och slutgiltigt upplösa den irakiska staten. Detta viktiga verk vederlägger påståendet att invasionen hade för avsikt att befria ett folk med en stor medelklass, som själv skulle kunna utveckla en demokratisk kultur.