Bush-Led 'Disaster Capitalism' Exploits Worldwide Misery to Make a Buck - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Oct 08
  

  George Williams

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• 05 Oct 08
  

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  Naomi Klein's July analysis of the motivations behind the decisions of the UK & US governments rings even more true in the light of the Wall Street bail-out, which she foreshadows in this artlcle.

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• 23 Jul 08
  

  Adam J.

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  antsygal Ash

  Iraq energy

• 21 Jul 08
  

  dr. woooo

  Privatizing Iraq's oil, ensuring global dominance for genetically modified crops, lowering the last of the trade barriers and opening the last of the wildlife refuges... Not so long ago, those goals were pursued through polite trade agreements, under the

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• 16 Jul 08
  

  kar1a x

  [Excerpt] [T]he disaster capitalists have been busy--from private firefighters already on the scene in Northern California's wildfires, to land grabs in cyclone-hit Burma, to the housing bill making its way through Congress. The bill contains little in th

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  spigot

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• 11 Jul 08
  

  bfelice

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• 09 Jul 08
  

  Keith Tilford

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• 07 Jul 08
  

  Bojan Budimac

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• 06 Jul 08
  

  Arne Løining

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  • today's preferred method of reshaping the world in the interest of multinational corporations is to systematically exploit the state of fear and disorientation that accompanies moments of great shock and crisis.
  • foreign firms will keep 75 percent of the value of the contracts
  • The policy was always to allocate these fields to the Iraq National Oil Company," he told me. This is a total reversal of that policy
  • billions handed out in no-bid contracts to Western firms have failed to rebuild the country.
  • Thus the invasion of Iraq neatly creates the argument for its subsequent pillage.
  • Iraq is being forced to sell 75 percent of its national patrimony to pay the bills for its own illegal invasion and occupation.
  • Canada increased its exports to the States by almost 100 million barrels. Yet despite this significant increase in secure supplies, oil prices have been going up the entire time.
  • message was clear: impoverished countries had better crack open their agricultural markets to American products and genetically modified seeds, or they could risk having their aid cut off.

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• 04 Jul 08
  

  Lobna Khalil-Darwish

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• 03 Jul 08
  

  Rick Spilsbury

  disastercapitalism

• 01 Jul 08
  

  Sarah Zurhellen

  As the planet is rocked by multiple shocks, here's a look at how disaster capitalists are reaping the benefits--leveraging the Iraq War, the push for arctic drilling and the global food crisis.
  

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