Vultures' picnic : a Greg Palast investigation.
2011
HD9560.5 .P236 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Vultures' picnic : a Greg Palast investigation.
Author
Palast, Greg.
ISBN
9780525952077
0525952071
0525952071
Imprint
New York : Dutton, c2011.
Language
English
Description
404 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HD9560.5 .P236 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.7/6655
Summary
Shares an exposé of the relationship between the oil and banking industries while arguing that such environmental disasters as the Gulf oil spill and Exxon Valdez can be directly linked to corporate corruption and failed legislation.
"This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process---a story that spans the globe and decades. For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller--a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman--to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and Central Banks act as puppets for Big Oil. With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon, Vultures' Picnic shows how the big powers in the money and oil game slip the bonds of regulation over and over again, and simply destroy the rules that they themselves can't write--and take advantage of nations and everyday people in the process"--Provided by publisher.
"This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process---a story that spans the globe and decades. For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller--a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman--to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and Central Banks act as puppets for Big Oil. With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon, Vultures' Picnic shows how the big powers in the money and oil game slip the bonds of regulation over and over again, and simply destroy the rules that they themselves can't write--and take advantage of nations and everyday people in the process"--Provided by publisher.
Note
"In pursuit of petroleum pigs, power pirates, and high-finance carnivores"--Jkt.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Goldfinger
Lady Baba-Land : the Islamic Republic of BP
Pig in the pipeline
The coon-ass Riviera
The cheese smelled funny so we threw it in the jungle
The Wizard of Ooze
My home is now a strange place
We figure out who murdered Jake
The sorcerer's stone
Fukushima, Texas
Mr. Fairness
The generalissimo of globalization
Vultures' picnic
Lots of fish.
Lady Baba-Land : the Islamic Republic of BP
Pig in the pipeline
The coon-ass Riviera
The cheese smelled funny so we threw it in the jungle
The Wizard of Ooze
My home is now a strange place
We figure out who murdered Jake
The sorcerer's stone
Fukushima, Texas
Mr. Fairness
The generalissimo of globalization
Vultures' picnic
Lots of fish.