Global Corruption

This book includes 3 scholarly works on Global Human Trafficking including an expose on Human Trafficking by the US Church of Scientology; Russia - a major sender State; Pakistan - the leading transit State and a discussion on how the Schengen Agreement will enhance the flow of trafficking victims around the expanded European Union. More than 10 individual stories of real victims of Global Human Trafficking. An interview with a leading criminologist in Russia who identifies actual ways victims are trafficked from Russia. Strongly recommended as an added source for students studying ...

#1 New York Times Bestseller A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE! “Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams]...

One pursues profit. Another pursues something far darker. Both are about to unleash a pandemic— and not everyone wants it contained. When his father dies, Harry Schuller is thrust into a senior role at Schuller Enterprises Pharmaceuticals—a position he is wildly unprepared for. Dismissed as lazy and incompetent, he stumbles onto irregular payments to a shadowy contractor, JAE Consulting, and a remote research site in Texas run by the brilliant and secretive Professor Juliette Armand. A chance encounter with Dr. Anika Patel, a rising CDC scientist who clawed her way out of the slums of ...

An immersive, pulse-pounding exposé on the global rise of teenage hackers, offering an insider's portrait of the dark net and the key players who are disrupting corporations, government institutions and our everyday lives—for fans of Bad Blood and Uncanny Valley Julius Kivimaki, aka Zeekill...

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS.​ 35-year-old Mohammed bin...

A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart of an international web of surveillance and control, which it weaves in the form of globe-spanning networks such as fiber optic cables and obscure payment systems America’s security state first...

This program is read by the author. In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world. The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's...

Based on exclusive interviews, an eye-opening biography of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), head of the House of Saud, the calculating ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and a central Middle East power broker. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Wall Street Journal publisher...

A former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains how government's oldest problem is its greatest destabilizing force. Thieves of State argues that corruption is not just a nuisance; it is a major source of geopolitical turmoil. Since the late 1990s, corruption has grown such that some governments now resemble criminal gangs, provoking extreme reactions ranging from revolution to militant puritanical religion.

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup – namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power. Exposing the origins of...

Los cárteles no existen no es un libro sobre traficantes, sino sobre el poder, el lenguaje y la violencia que se ejerce en nombre de nuestra seguridad. Un ensayo imprescindible para comprender por qué seguimos hablando de los «cárteles» y qué se oculta detrás de esa palabra.

The war isn’t coming. It’s already here Jack Maddox thought he was done with the shadows, until a buried directive drags him back into a covert war inside Washington DC. As Operation Phoenix resurfaces, he and Lucia Navarro uncover a ruthless conspiracy stretching from intelligence agencies to the highest levels of power. The target isn’t just control - it’s the future of the United States itself. But the battlefield doesn’t stay contained. When a classified mission pulls them into the Arctic, Maddox and Navarro uncover the Black Atlas - a Cold War relic capable of triggering ...

We are in the midst of a devastating takeover of our world. The Global Coup d’Ètat shows how, why, and what we can do to stop it.

Longlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year "Blood and Oil is the fascinating and highly entertaining tale of Mohammed bin Salman's rise to power. With fly-on-the-wall reporting and palace intrigue worthy of Machiavelli, it will keep you turning the pages at a...

In 2015, FIFA-the multibillion dollar governing body of the world's most-loved sport-was brought down by allegations of industrial-scale bribes, kickbacks, money laundering, racketeering and tax evasion. Beginning with early morning raids in Zurich and the indictment of twenty-seven executives...

'FINANCIAL JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST . . . UTTERLY TERRIFYING' PETER OBORNE 'PART WAKE-UP CALL, PART FINANCIAL THRILLER' SHAMI CHAKRABARTI A thrilling, eye-opening investigation into private equity, a secretive wing of the finance industry that is so relentlessly destructive, it could have been...

John Lister’s book delivers a searing examination of what happens to health care when power falls into the hands of a narcissistic, authoritarian leader intent on enriching a small elite of business allies across finance, technology, real estate, and fossil fuels. Using Donald Trump’s second presidential term as its main case study, the book exposes how self-interested governance and reactionary ideology can devastate public health systems, entrench inequality, and imperil millions of lives—not only in the United States but around the world. At the heart of Trump’s agenda lies a ...

An insightful and devastating account of how Wall Street lost its way from an insider who experienced the culture of Goldman Sachs first-hand. On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." The...

Long before the alphabet agencies, before global banks, before classified briefings and back-channel deals… there was a small circle of men who learned one truth: control the money, and you control the world. This is the book that rips back the curtain. THE DEEP STATE: ORIGINAL GANGSTERS goes beyond the headlines, beyond partisan noise, and deep into the historical machinery of power that has shaped America for more than two centuries. From the early money-changers and merchant bankers who quietly funded wars, to the hidden networks that influenced presidents, crises, and policies, this ...

Arms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets and super-car collections. blood diamonds, suspect oil deals, deforestation and murder. This is the world of Global Witness, the award-winning organisation dedicated to rooting out worldwide corruption. And this is co-founder Patrick Alley's revealing inside track on a breath-taking catalogue of modern super-crimes—and the 'shadow network' that enables them. Very Bad People is about going undercover in the world's most dangerous places and bringing down the people behind the crimes.