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Bezig met laden... Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earthdoor Rachel Maddow
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Everybody on the planet should read this book, especially those who have lost their way and can no longer tell fact from fiction. Maddow takes seemingly disparate stories and shows how they have interwoven to create the challenges we have seen arise recently around the world. Real journalists and journalism are vital to keep our democracies on track. ( ) Saw this on the shelf of free books at the library. It reads just like Maddow talks, biased, too many "unnamed sources", repetitive. In places it jumps to and from unrelated subjects and not enough details to make clear sense of it all. This could have been very interesting, and maybe if a better writer told the story it would have been. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, but ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most consequential corporate villains. The oil-and-gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers. But being outraged at it is, according to Maddow, "like being indignant when a lion takes down and eats a gazelle. You can't really blame the lion. It's in her nature.""-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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