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Superclass: la nuova elite globale e il mondo che sta realizzando

di David Rothkopf

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They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time. Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? Has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws? Drawn from exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, this book draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our lives.--From publisher description.… (altro)
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" The most powerful mind altering drug in existance is oil " ( this guy knows what he's talking about ) Hard to read ( literally, the print was too close together ) ( )
  Baku-X | Jan 10, 2017 |
" The most powerful mind altering drug in existance is oil " ( this guy knows what he's talking about ) Hard to read ( literally, the print was too close together ) ( )
2 vota BakuDreamer | Sep 7, 2013 |
Pearl Ruled

Rating: 3.25* of five (p189)

The Book Description: Each of them is one in a million. They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time.

Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? They control globalization more than anyone else. But has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? What happens behind closed-door meetings in Davos or aboard corporate jets at 41,000 feet? Conspiracy or collaboration? Deal-making or idle self-indulgence? What does the rise of Asia and Latin America mean for the conventional wisdom that shapes our destinies? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws?

Drawn from scores of exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, Superclass answers all of these questions and more. It draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our everyday lives. It is the first in-depth examination of the connections between the global communities of leaders who are at the helm of every major enterprise on the planet and control its greatest wealth. And it is an unprecedented examination of the trends within the superclass, which are likely to alter our politics, our institutions, and the shape of the world in which we live.

David Rothkopf is the author of Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power. He is the president and chief executive of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory firm; a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and a teacher of international affairs at Columbia University's Graduate School of International and Public Affairs.

My Review: I am on Outrage Overload. When next I am asked to declare citizenship, I'm going to say I am a denizen of Indignation. I just can not go further into this book, despite its enormous importance and its trenchant analysis of the world that so terrifyingly affirms that I'm correct to have nightmares of a world dominated by the contemptible and the greedy. The irredeemable people described in this book made me want to unswallow about every fifth paragraph.

It's election season here in the USA. I need not mention to any who have ever seen any of my posts before reading this review that I am a leftist, and more libertarian than authoritarian in my outlook. No candidate in US politics remotely approaches representing my viewpoint. REMOTELY. So I read books that explain the way these horrid people “think” in order to make the least bad decisions. I read books like Superclass to see what the politicos we-the-people end up sending into office are up against. (I do not count the president or his challenger among the ~6,000 Superclass members Rothkopf describes.)

But I've collapsed. I can't do any more. Yes I'll vote. No I won't vote for a theocrat with a mercantilist running mate. But I am all out of hope for the future, and all out of faith in the basic human decency of anyone who has more than $1.59 in his bank account.

Never the chirpiest or most sanguine of men, I'm now more liable than ever to pick up a red-hot poker and jab it at an office-holder than to greet her warmly and offer a donation to her re-election campaign. As to business leaders, I herewith volunteer for the firing squads that will eliminate them come the Revolution. I know how to shoot, and the chance to blast a Walton or a Koch sounds just ducky to me.

But that, I am sadly certain, is only a lonely old man's dream. The sheeple of Murrika will never rise up. They, too, will one day be the Rich and Powerful. If they work and pray and atone for their sins to the slitty-eyed vicious bastard of a gawd they've created, they will Be Winners!

Ha. As if. And reading this book would explain to the sheeple just exactly why that's such a crock of moldy cat poop. Which is why they won't, and why I had to stop.

Recommended to any and every one who wants to know why the world is how it is, and isn't yet terminally and cynically depressed already.

You will be.
3 vota richardderus | Sep 27, 2012 |
Het is er een op een miljoen – samen zo'nzesduizend mensen op de hele wereldbevolking.Ze runnen onze regeringen,zitten in de machtscentra van de financiëlewereld, de media en de wereldreligies enzelfs, achter de schermen, in criminele enterroristische organisaties. Zij vormen dewereldwijde superklasse, en zij bepalen degeschiedenis van deze tijd. Het is maar eenkleine elite, maar die is, in deze tijd vanglobalisering, rijker en machtiger dan ooittevoren.

Hebben de leden van deze groep zolangzamerhand meer met elkaar gemeendan met hun landgenoten? Wat gebeurt erachter gesloten deuren in Davos, of aanboord van corporate jets hoog in de lucht?Samenzwering of samenwerking? Wiebepaalt de regels voor een groep die opereertbuiten iedere nationale wetgeving om?

Op basis van vele exclusieve interviews enjarenlange uitvoerige research, geeftRothkopf antwoord op deze vragen en veleandere. Van de directiekamers van demachtigste bedrijven van Amerika totbijeenkomsten met de beruchtste oligarchvan Rusland, van de geheime ontmoetingenvan de Trilaterale Commissie tot hetChinese Boao Forum voor Azië – Rothkopfonthult in al zijn facetten een geprivilegieerdegroep waar de meesten van ons maarweinig van weten, terwijl die van enormeinvloed is op ons dagelijks leven.

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De president van de Wereldbank deed in april 2008 een dringend beroep op de wereldleiders om de mondiale voedselcrisis te bestrijden. Dit appel duidt erop dat de groeiende tegenstellingen tussen arm en rijk, zowel politiek als humanitair, ontoelaatbaar worden. De auteur van 'De superklasse' deelt deze visie. De definitie van deze klasse is onscherp. Het gaat om politieke wereldleiders, leiders van internationale organisaties, inclusief multinationals en 'gewone' superrijken. Bijzondere aandacht krijgt het World Economic Forum, de informele club van de bestuurlijke elite uit de hele wereld (afkomstig uit politiek, cultuur en zakenleven) die jaarlijks bijeenkomt in Davos. Dit gezelschap heeft grote invloed achter de schermen van de 'officiele' politiek. Het boek biedt (te) veel petite histoire over de groten der aarde; het is daardoor dik geworden (ruim vierhonderd pagina's). Aan het eind ven het boek stelt de schrijver de vraag: heeft de superklasse het inzicht en de moed om in te zetten op de noodzakelijke mondiale veranderingen? Het boek biedt aardige lectuur; geen nieuwe inzichten. Met eindnoten en een personenregister.

(NBD|Biblion recensie, G. Kruis)
  -Cicero- | Sep 26, 2011 |
Interessant om te weten hoe de “superklasse” onderling met elkaar samenhangt en hoe zij invloed hebben op het nemen van beslissingen. Beslissingen die de gehele planeet treffen.
Maar de auteur is bij lange niet kritisch genoeg. Hij bespreekt heel feitelijk de programma’s waarmee de wereldbank en het IMF de derdewereldlanden ‘openbreken’ en constateert enkel dat er een tegenstand bestaat tegen deze programma’s in de ontvangende landen bij de bevolking die niet tot de superklasse behoort, maar rept met geen woord over waarom ze tegenstand oproepen. De stringente eisen die de wereldbank en het imf stellen aan hun “klanten” zorgen vaak voor een destabilisering en verarming van een groot deel van de bevolking: ze snijden genadeloos in de publieke sector en passen een ‘one-fits-all” model toe op alle gebieden. Hoewel het doel van deze instellingen nobel is, stimuleert het te veel het neo-liberalisme en we weten waar dit naar toe leidt: rijk wordt rijker en arm armer. De auteur gaat hier echter niet op in.
Als hij de militaire overmacht van de Verenigde Staten bespreekt, gebruikt hij vooral veel onkritische superlatieven, maar de militaire investeringen van Venezuela, Iran en Rusland doet hij af met de woorden “wapenwedloop”. Jammer ook dat hij zich als het ware excuseert na zijn goed doordachte redenering over de oorlog in Irak.
Ik kan nog vele voorbeelden geven, maar boodschap is: lees zeker eens dit boek (goed geschreven en het opent de ogen), maar weet dat de schrijver zelf nauw verbonden is met de superklasse en dat dit zijn opinies kleurt ofwel gaat hij gewoon niet diep genoeg in op bepaalde onderwerpen? ( )
  ellde | Aug 21, 2008 |
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They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time. Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? Has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws? Drawn from exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, this book draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our lives.--From publisher description.

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