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wetsokcs's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Racism, and Torture
ka_cam's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Everyone should read this book! Readable, informative. Wish there was an afterword with updates from the 2010s or 2020s
Content Warnings
Minor: Addiction, Racism, Death, Colonisation, Classism, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Violence, Deportation, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Rape, Religious bigotry, Trafficking, Sexism, Slavery, and War
hirundo's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: War, Torture, Colonisation, Genocide, Police brutality, and Violence
emmameetsearth's review against another edition
challenging
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.0
The Guardian described this as 'devastating' and that there persists a quasi-religious faith in free markets (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/15/politics). Exploring themes including
- Crisis opportunism
- Voodoo politics
- Nations inheriting debt from oppressors
- Corporatism
- Volatility of global economy - Crisis is built on crisis.
"An economic system that requires constant growth, while bucking almost all serious attempts at environmental regulation, generates a steady stream of disasters all on its own, whether military, ecological or financial. The appetite for easy, short-term profits offered by purely speculative investment has turned the stock, currency and real estate markets into crisis-creation machines, as the Asian financial crisis, the Mexican peso crisis and the dotcom collapse all demonstrate."
The chapter on the 2003 Iraq war and pinochet's reign of terror really hit me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, War, and Murder
Moderate: Racism
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