Bøger af Loretta Napoleoni

The respected Italian economist and journalist offers a bold and provocative argument that the speed of technological transformation is threatening our future. At the dawn of the digital revolution, the internet was going to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. Instead, with the money printed electronically to bail out banks, Wall Street ended up funding a new breed of serial capitalists, the Techtitans, who embraced rapid, transformational change while stripping their workers of rights and enriching themselves beyond anybody''s wildest imagination; and the Space Barons, who mine new frontiers for precious resources. Then came the gig-economy, another supposed digital equalizer, where everybody was his or her own boss, but it was just another illusion. Tech pioneers like Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber, and Microsoft never had any intention of spreading democracy. Those who control and own the technology are the absolute masters. As artificial intelligence enters the labour

"At the dawn of the digital revolution, the internet was going to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. Instead, with the money printed electronically to bail out banks, Wall Street ended up funding a new breed of serial capitalists, the Techtitans, who embraced rapid, transformational change while stripping their workers of rights and enriching themselves beyond anybody's wildest imagination; and the Space Barons, who mine new frontiers for precious resources. Then came the gig-economy, another supposed digital equalizer, where everybody was their own boss, but it was just another illusion. Tech pioneers like Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber, and Microsoft never had any intention of spreading democracy. Those who control and own the technology are the absolute masters. As artificial intelligence enters the labor market, companies like Uber are able to cut labor costs to the barest of minimums, by squeezing workers' privileges and rights. In Techno-Capitalism, Napoleoni describes these phenomena as the genesis of a new paradigm, born in a period of extraordinary change in which the acceleration of transformational change has caused a dizzying, anxiety-induced paralysis from the FTX collapse to AI, private space companies to the war in Ukraine, from inflation to the dirty environmental truth of EV car batteries. Technological transformation is occurring at a speed that is existentially unbearable for most of us. We must fight for our common good to address today's real challenges of global warming and militarism and the soulessness of capitalist endeavor. Napoleoni shows us how"--

In her characteristically direct approach, political analyst Loretta Napoleoni takes on the vexed story-and threat-of North Korea for those of us in the West who remain blinded by its myths and bigotry. Like China's Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung - North Korea's leader from its founding in 1948 until his death in 1994 - washed away the humiliation caused by Japanese colonisation and re-created an ancient nation. He consolidated and protected the country with strict principles of unity and isolation. His grandson Kim Jong-un is following in the footsteps of Chinese revolutionary politics by modernising the country using the economy as the main tool of transformation. This short, informative book is an account of a country central to world politics and yet little understood. Further, it presents insider narratives of its people, whose self-image is radically different to the image we have of them.

Nordkorea er verdens mest lukkede land. Alligevel har de fleste af os en opfattelse af landet, dets befolkning og dets regime. Men stemmer vores indtryk? Holder vores opfattelser? Nordkorea placering i centrum af verdenspolitikken, stridighederne med USA om landets kernevåbenprogram – og sikkerhedssituationen såvel på den koreanske halvø som globalt – gør det vigtigere end nogensinde at få mere viden om det lukkede land. Det er uhyre svært at skelne mellem fakta og fiktion – hvad er fakta og hvad er myte? Mystikken er massiv. Siden den kolde krig har Nordkorea fremstået som sindbilledet på en utilregnelig, ond og dystopisk samfundsorden. Såvel Irak som Libyen – inden diktatorernes fald – blev opfattet som bedre regimer end Nordkorea. Denne bog giver et kritisk men mere nuanceret billede af eremitstaten. Loretta Napoleoni vil forstå landet indefra og har interviewet nordkoreanere og folk som har boet i landet gennem flere år. Gennem udforskning af historien, Nordkoreas kulturelle arv og politiske system tegner hun et billede af et land, hvis selvbillede radikalt adskiller sig fra omverdenens. Napoleoni beskriver, hvordan Nordkorea i flere tiår efter krigen, helt op i 1990'erne plages af sult og hungersnød, hun følger Kim-dynastiets udvikling, udforsker statsideologien juche, afdækker elitens korruption, fortæller om fjendskabet mellem USA og Nordkorea, om missilkrisen, om krig i cyberspace.Loretta Napoleoni er italiensk økonom, journalist og forfatter til flere bøger. Hun er ekspert i finansieringen af terrorismenetværk og den globale terroristøkonomi. Hun er rådgiver for mange regeringer og internationale organisationer i spørgsmål om terrorisme og pengehvidvaskning. På dansk er tidligere udkommet bøgerne Islamisk stat og Menneskekøbmænd (om gidseltagning og menneskesmugling som milliardindustri).

In Terror Incorporated, Loretta Napoleoni maps out the arteries of an international economic system that feeds armed groups the world over. Chasing terror money, she takes the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of the Far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to hawala exchanges in the Middle East. Napoleoni describes the "New Economy of Terror," "a fast-growing international economic system with a turnover of about $1.5 trillion [that] is challenging Western hegemony." It is made up of illegal businesses such as arms and narcotics trading, and oil and diamond smuggling, as well as charitable donations and legal profits. Napoleoni reveals the interdependency between economies run by armed groups and western economies, and provides a pioneering examination of the system and methods by which international terrorism is financed.