Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity by Peter Phillips

Description: Titans of Capital by Peter Phillips, Dan Kovalik Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Explores how fewer and larger investment companies now manage the excess financial wealth of the worlds 40 million richest people, to the detriment of everyone else and the global environment. Political sociologist Peter Phillips examines the global economy to demonstrate how networks of wealthy individuals have evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic and how the financial investments of transnational elites threaten human rights and the future of the planet. Focusing on private capital investments, military spending, and the propaganda machine, he poses three key research questions: To what extent do the wealthy influence - or even dominate - decision making that affects all of us in society? Who are the most powerful people? How does the accumulation of capital work? Titans of Capital examines changes in the global economy during the past five years that demonstrate how networks of wealthy individuals have evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the financial investments of transnational elites threaten human rights and the future of the planet. Private capital investments serve as the primary operating funds for international arms sales, private prisons, and other socially negative activities. These investments fuel the continued use of carbon-based energy leading to amplified global warming and climate change. Military spending is a critical component of continued wealth concentration and political power in the world. Spending on arms and intelligence is a required aspect of maintaining global power and control. Dealing with Russia, China, Iran and other rogue states is a continuing agenda for agents of the world power elites. Propaganda machines in Western capitalist governments serve to protect elite wealth by promoting military conflicts to open new regions for economic investment. Phillips warns that while continued concentration of global capital increases the profits enjoyed by the global economys Titans, it also increases global inequality, starvation, and civil unrest, threatening the lives of the hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty. It is imperative to ask how we can reverse the concentration of Titan wealth and revitalize grassroots democracy unbridled by extreme wealth. Identifying 117 global Titans by name and exposing the networks and interests that unite them provides readers opposed to militarism and committed to economic equality with crucial tools to directly engage the power elite who endanger life on earth. Author Biography PETER PHILLIPS is Professor of Political Sociology (Emeritus) at Sonoma State University, former Director of Project Censored 1996 to 2010, and President of Media Freedom Foundation 2003 to 2017. He has been editor or co-editor of fourteen editions of Censored, was co-editor with Dennis Loo of Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney (2006), and the editor of two editions of the Progressive Guide to Alternative Media and Activism (1999 & 2004). His is author of Giants: The Global Power Elite (2018). He was a co-host of the weekly Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio with Mickey Huff from 2010 to 2017, originating from KPFA in Berkeley, CA and airing on fifty stations nationwide. He taught courses in Political Sociology, Sociology of Power, Sociological of Media, Sociology of Conspiracies and Investigative Sociology. He was winner of the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in 1997 for Best Political Book, PEN Censorship Award 2008, Dallas Smythe Award from the Union for Democratic Communications 2009, and the Pillar Human Rights Award from the National Associations of Whistleblowers 2014.DAN KOVALIK served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers union for twenty-six years and taught international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law for twelve years. He is the author of seven books, including, most recently, Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance. Details ISBN 1644214334 ISBN-13 9781644214336 Title Titans of Capital Author Peter Phillips, Dan Kovalik Format Paperback Year 2024 Pages 224 Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. GE_Item_ID:161508639; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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