In this new and expanded edition of Chossudovsky's international bestseller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generales social apartheid, encourages ethnic strife, and undermines the ríghts of women. The result, as his detailed examples from all parts of the world show so convincingly, is a globalization of poverty. This book is a skilful combination of lucid explanation and cogently argued critique of the fundamental directions in which our world is moving financially and economically. In this second edition, which includes ten new chapters, the author reviews the causes and consequences of famine in the Third World, the dramatic meltdown of financial markets, the demise of State social programs and the devastation resulting from corporate downsizing and trade liberalisation. "In its entirety, the book can and should be read by all with an interest in world peace and the causes of poverty." - Frances Hutchinson, The Ecologist
"This concíse, provocative book reveals the negative effects of imposed economic structural reform.é It deserves to be read carefuliy and widely." - Choice, American Library Association (ALA)
"The current system, Chossudovsky argues, is one of capital creation through destruction. The author confronts head on the links between civil violence, social and envíronmental stress, with the modalities of market expansión." - Michele Stoddard, Covert Action Quarterly
"Michel Chossudovsky is one of the leading íntellectuals of the antiwar movement, perhaps the best, as l find he works his tail off in documentíng the material he presents and ís rigorous in his analysis." - Jude Wanniski, Polyconomics |
