Blowout. Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Eart

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Описание Blowout. Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Eart

A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world politics
Award-winning American news presenter Rachel Maddow investigates remarkable stories from around the globe, all leading back to the same crooked source: the unimaginably lucrative and equally corrupting oil and gas industry.
From Oklahoma, Texas and Washington, to Kyiv, Siberia and Moscow, to Equatorial Guinea and Alaska;
from a mansion in Malibu with the world'
s largest collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia to luxury hotels in central London;
from deep within the earth'
s crust to the icy surface of the Arctic seas, Blowout uncovers a web of international corruption.
With her trademark black humour, Maddow takes us through the purposeful detonation of a fifty-kiloton nuclear bomb underground near Colarado, man-made earthquakes, murdered cows and the international financial crisis, to the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas, and a surprising conclusion about why the Russian government hacked the 2016 U.S. election. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, most notably ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson.
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."
Blowout is a call to contain the lion: to stop subsidizing the wealthiest businesses on earth, to fight for transparency, and to check the influence of the world'
s most destructive industry and its enablers. The stakes have never been higher. As Maddow writes, "Democracy either wins this one or disappears."

Содержание Blowout. Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Eart

INTRODUCTION: IN A SURREALIST LANDSCAPE
ONE SPLENDOR AND FRAGRANCE
TWO THE GENIE
THREE STOLEN GOODS
FOUR CHARLIE HUSTLE
FIVE THUNDER UPI
SIX REX SHRUGGED
SEVEN A RISK MANAGEMENT PROBLEM
IGHT POSTER BOY
NINE PRACTICAL REALITIES
TEN WHO DOES THAT
ELEVEN THE OTHER 1 PERCENT
TWELVE ULTRAHAZARDOUS ACTIVITY
THIRTEEN A SIGNIFICANT STRATEGIC STEP
FOURTEEN TRUST
FIFTEEN THE HANDSOME HERO SIXTEEN THIS AIN'
T
NO DISCO
SEVENTEEN SUCH A MAN IS BORN ONCE EVERY FEW
DECADES
EIGHTEEN PUTIN ZASSAL
NINETEEN ALL HAIL THE MERCENARIES
TWENTY HIS IDEA OF AMERICA
TWENTY-ONE BECAUSE THEY COULD
TWENTY-TWO "WE GREATLY VALUE OUR
RELATIONSHIP"
TWENTY-THREE POBEDAI
TWENTY-FOUR "YEAH THAT WAS CRAZY"
TWENTY-FIVE ACTIVE APPRECIATION
TWENTY-SIX IT ALL TIES BACK
TWENTY-SEVEN "ALL THEY HAVE IS THIS"
TWENTY-EIGHT "CONSTITUENCY TRUMPS
EVERYTHING"
TWENTY-NINE CONTAINMENT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES ON SOURCES
INDEX

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