Book description
The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy 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.
