Banking on Baghdad - Edwin Black
Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict
KORTE INHOUD
New York Times and international bestselling author Edwin Black uncovers Iraq's hidden economy and the companies that profit from its upheaval Big business and global warfare have long been fiery and symbiotic forces in Iraq. Banking on Baghdad tells the dramatic and tragic history of a land long the center of world commerce-and documents the many ways Iraq's recent history mirrors its tumultuous past. Tracing the involvement of Western governments and militaries, as well as oil, banking, and other corporate interests in Iraq, Black shows that today, just as yesterday, the world needs Iraq's resources-and is always willing to fight and invade in order to acquire and protect them. While demonstrating that Iraq itself is partially to blame for its current state of turmoil, Black does not shy away from the uncomfortable truth that war and profit have also played an equal part in creating the Iraq we know today. Just as he did in IBM and the Holocaust, Black exposes the hidden associations between leading corpora...
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[Auteur: Black, Edwin] [Pagina's: 471] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: John Wiley & Sons] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict]
