Product Description: In Counterfeit Crime, economist, historian, and criminologist R.T. Naylor dissects the costs - economic, social, and political - of the seemingly never-ending wars on the grossly exaggerated menaces of Crime and Terror and how most things politicians do to combat them make matters worse - for the public and the public good...read more

Product Description: "From class struggle to crass struggle; that is the defining feature of the times. And the genius of today's political economy has been to convert what used to be a potential life-and-death conflict between haves and have-nots into a minor disagreement between have-lots and wanna-have-mores...read more

Product Description: In a savage critique, R.T. Naylor investigates the American government's understanding of and response to 9/11, exposing the official story - and the resulting global war on Islamic terror - as based on myth and misinformation, and as being at best ineffective, at worst harmful.

Product Description: By stressing the interconnections between the grand events of the conquest and the subjegation of the globe by European empire builders and the less dramatic events in Canada, this book provides a reinterpretration of Canadian social, economic, and political history.

Product Description: Tom Naylor traces the insidious interplay of big business and big government in Canada in the period between Confederation and world War I, presenting corruption as the norm rather than an abberation.

"Never in history has there been a black market tamed from the supply side. From Prohibition to prostitution, from gambling to recreational drugs, the story is the same. Supply-side controls act to encourage production and increase profits. At best a few intermediaries get knocked out of business. But as long as demand persists, the market is served more or less as before. In the meantime, failure to 'win the war' [against crime] becomes a pretext for increasing police budgets, expanding law enforcement powers, and pouring more money into the voracious maw of the prison-industrial complex."―from the IntroductionR. T. Naylor specializes in the study of smuggling, black markets, and international financial crime. Wages of Crime takes the reader into the shadowy underworld of modern criminal business―arms trafficking, gold smuggling, money laundering, and terrorist financing. Naylor dissects the schemes by which illegal entrepreneurs disguise their acts, manage their take, and eventually enjoy the loot. The author asserts that much of what police, press, politicians, and the public understand about international crime is based on myth and misrepresentation. A fully revised final chapter covering events since the book's initial publication in early 2002 brings Wages of Crime up to date.

A ball of hot money rolls around the world. It seeks anonymity and political refuge. It dodges taxes and sidesteps currency controls. It rolls through offshore shell companies and secret bank accounts, phoney charities and fraudulent religious foundations. It is kept rolling by white-collar criminals, gun-runners, drug dealers, insurgent groups, scam artists, tax evaders, gold and gem smugglers, and, not least, secret service agents plotting coups and financing revolutions. R.T. Naylor explains the origins of this pool of hot and homeless money, its origins, its uses and abuses, how the world of high finance, corporate and governmental, became hostage to it, and the price the world is paying and will continue to pay until the hostages are released. This book was one of the first, and remains the most comprehensive, to dissect the world of offshore finance, capital flight, money laundering, and tax evasion. Once a subject of concern principally to tax authorities and finance ministries, since the September 11, 2001 hot and homeless money has now become a central preoccupation for police forces and intelligence services around the world.

Governments today deploy trade sanctions, blockades and financal restrictions as their political weapons of choice to curb aggression and to enforce international morality. But is economic warfare an effective foreign policy instrument? In this investigative history, R. Thomas Naylor demonstrates repeatedly that punitive measures almost always fail to achieve their stated goals and often cause unintentional harm, especially to the innocent populations of the embargoed countries. In reality, he argues, economic warfare breeds corruption, creates thriving black market economies, criminalizes legitimate businesses, and helps turn limited conflicts into global ones. Naylor illustrates the futility of forcing political change through economic pressure by describing in intricate detail the poor record of lateral and multilateral sanctions aimed at the former Soviet Union, South Africa, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Panama and other "pariah" governments. In virtually every case, he shows how embargoes, trade restrictions and asset freezes are successfully circumvented through an interdependent sanctions-busting network of shell companies, offshore banks, professional money laundering operations, and "flags of convenience" shipping centres. In meticulously documented stories wrapped in deception and denial, secrecy and subterfuge, Naylor reveals that economic warfare inevitably promotes economic crime or gangster capitalism. As corrupt profiteers who are in league with the political elite of targeted states gain power and influence, they reinforce the regime's commitment to the very policies that led to the imposition of sanctions. And, as in the case of Iraq, where 200,000 children died of a malnutrition-related disease while Saddam Hussein and his ruling class prospered, the human cost invariably falls on the poorest elements of the rogue state's society. Naylor's eye-opening account of the dire consequences of economic warfare takes the reader on a journey through an underworld of corrupt leaders, privateers, gun-runners, drug traffickers, gangsters and spies. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Starting with an analysis of Canadian economic interrelations with various European countries, this book goes on to examine the effect of international investment flows on development. "Provides a welcome alternative conception of Canadian economic priorities...read more

Product Description: Based on Naylor's widely read column, this book is designed to give the news behind the news, to put back into the stories the "awkward" details the main stream media find convenient to omit. "An eminently readable book, with outre insights into the corrupt underside of world affairs in each chapter...read more

Product Description: Starting with an analysis of Canadian economic interrelations with various European countries, this book goes on to examine the effect of international investment flows on development. "Provides a welcome alternative conception of Canadian economic priorities...read more