VULTURES' PICNIC: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores Hardcover - 2011
by Palast, Greg (Signed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
The New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either.
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.
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- Title VULTURES' PICNIC: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores
- Author Palast, Greg (Signed)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Stated First Printing
- Condition Used - Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dutton, New York
- Date 2011
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6023
- ISBN 9780525952077 / 0525952071
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.7 in (22.61 x 16.00 x 4.32 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects International finance - Moral and ethical, Petroleum industry and trade - Corrupt
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011032687
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.766
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Summary
The New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either.
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.
