Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
by Peter Warren Singer · 1 Jan 2003 · 482pp · 161,169 words
Channel documentary postscript: the lfssons of iraq Soldiers for Hire and provided background for plotlines in the TV drama The West Wing and the movie Blood Diamonds. Even more exciting for an academic like me was the positive response from the folks working in the field, from being invited to lecture on
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
by Zeke Faux · 11 Sep 2023 · 385pp · 106,848 words
Getting Hilariously Rich and You’re Not,” New York Times, January 13, 2018. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT diamonds: Olga Kharif, “IBM Is Tackling Blood Diamonds with Blockchain,” Bloomberg, April 26, 2018. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT heads of lettuce: Camila Russo, “Walmart Is Getting Suppliers to Put Food on
Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know
by P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman · 3 Jan 2014 · 587pp · 117,894 words
websites were targeted after its president’s wife sued a newspaper for US$15 million for publishing a WikiLeaks cable that linked her to the blood diamond trade. The Tunisian government was targeted for censoring the WikiLeaks documents as well as news about uprisings in the country (in a poignant twist, a
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun, Stephen Hoye and Audible Studios · 15 Nov 2013 · 238pp · 73,121 words
-laundering, banking, and investments backed up by force as well as contracts. They include tax-evasion, trafficking, and a range of illicit flows—from minerals (blood diamonds or coltan), to weapons (small arms mostly, but also tanks, aircraft, and missiles), to drugs, to people. This often illicit capitalism is often more formally
You're a Horrible Person, but I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice
by The Believer · 15 Mar 2010
horrible person and I deleted it. I am really scared for you. Seriously scared. You are in serious trouble. I hope you’ve been hoarding conflict diamonds and Cipro, because you are about to enter the s-h-i-t, the Heart of Darkness. Take everything you ever thought you knew about
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words
. Would U.S. regulators allow one of the big financial firms to develop a product that is linked to the global black-market value of blood diamonds and that can be used for terrorist financing? They seem to have no problem with indexing to cryptocurrencies. Indeed, though it is difficult to prove
Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
by Philip N. Howard · 27 Apr 2015 · 322pp · 84,752 words
is against anonymous companies that are able to hide their owner ship structure in layers of easily created shell companies.29 The cruel industry behind blood diamonds, in particular, has been able to bury the identity of company owners and beneficiaries. Unfortunately, only the most experienced data sleuths can track down their
How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--And What It Really Means
by John Lanchester · 5 Oct 2014 · 261pp · 86,905 words
, a commodity boom.27 The quest to find and extract commodities from troubled places is one of the darkest aspects of the contemporary economic system: “blood diamonds” are the best known of these products, but there are many more and many whose stories go untold. Much of the world’s computer equipment
Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects
by Glenn Adamson · 6 Aug 2018 · 220pp · 64,234 words
problems of sourcing, for decades precious stones have been mined in Africa in terrible circumstances, including slavery enforced by violence. Awareness of these so-called blood diamonds is obscured not only by the lack of transparency that one finds in almost all commodity chains, but also by the dazzling sight of the
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The Rough Guide to Cape Town, Winelands & Garden Route
by Rough Guides, James Bembridge and Barbara McCrea · 4 Jan 2018 · 641pp · 147,719 words
, Odessa and New York City. Nowadays, Capetonians are increasingly spotting major Hollywood names in bars along the Atlantic seaboard beaches, as 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Blood Diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly, and Clint Eastwood-directed Invictus, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman, have been shot in the city. Following the
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Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology
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The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption - Endangering Our Democracy
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Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
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The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
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Reset
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
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Wait: The Art and Science of Delay
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Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
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The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
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McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
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Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
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Iron Sunrise
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?
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Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
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Independent Diplomat: Dispatches From an Unaccountable Elite
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Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
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The Laundromat : Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite
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The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better
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