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"Our current democratic capitalist system is close to imploding. This book is the first to reveal the secret financial system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy. Over the last half century, capitalism has created the means for trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly-beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist operations, riches move inexorably upward and accelerate economic inequality, directly obstructing and threatening democracy. In three parts, Invisible Trillions reveals how capitalism today functions outside the control of democracy and how we can link the two once again. Acknowledging the corruption and complacency of our institutions, Raymond W. Baker walks readers through covert financial operations, their instigators, and their impacts. He also argues for replacing financial secrecy with transparency via mechanisms such as mandated disclosure around corporate and financial entities and operations. This book takes the first step toward holding our systems accountable. After all, the very survival of the democratic capitalist system is at stake."

Essential reading for anyone truly interested in saving democracy from the predations of kleptocracy and plutocracy. -Charles Davidson, The Journal of Democracy This book expands our understanding of the financial secrecy system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy.

The mystery of islam's strength -- Oases of resistance and reform -- Guidance from the center -- Heralds of renewal -- Ibn Battuta and medieval pathways -- Fahmi Huwaidi and contemporary networks -- God's signs for democracy in islam -- The Islamist imaginary -- The epochal story of Islam and the common people -- The "river of life

For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism's Achilles Heel, Baker takes readers on a fascinating journey through the global free-market system and reveals how dirty money, poverty, and inequality are inextricably intertwined. Readers will discover how small illicit transactions lead to massive illegalities and how staggering global income disparities are worsened by the illegalities that permeate international capitalism. Drawing on his experiences, Baker s

Abstract
The US-led invasion of Iraq, a 'supreme war crime', not only shattered the Iraqi state, killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and devastated the incomparable cultural heritage of the birthplace of civilization, it also created the fertile seedbed for the efflorescence of crime, corruption and violent extremisms. Iraqis today live amidst shards of glass, resulting from the deliberate policy of 'breaking windows' to end the Iraqi state.