A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully in Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, LORETTA NAPOLEONI was born in 1955 in Rome. In the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement in Italy, and later studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She began her career as an economist, and went on to work as London correspondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Repubblica and La Pa s. Napoleoni is the author of the international bestsellers Rogue Economics- Capitalism's New Reality and Terror Incorporated- Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. She has served as the Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, and lectures regularly around the world on economics, money laundering and terrorism. Napoleoni lives in London and Montana.
Penetrating, lucid and essential. --Harry Porter, author of Empire State Napoleoni has accomplished an extraordinary task of research in tracking, finding, and graphically describing the financiers and the institutions supporting global terrorism, including al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. --John K. Cooley, author of Unholy Wars This thoughtful and incisive inquiry yields much insight into some of the most important issues of today, and tomorrow. --Noam Chomsky A masterpiece ... This book should be required reading for everyone in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon. --Greg Palast, author of the New York Times bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and The Jokers Wild: Dubyas Trick Deck playing cards