“The World Belongs to Us! Power and Racketeering of Multinationals and Millionaires” is the new book of Klaus Werner-Lobo, author of best-selling books like The Black Book on Brands. It will be published in September 2008 in German.

The big brand names have taken over the world – it’s time to take it back!
They make astronomical profits. They wield unimaginable economic power. It’s time to take a closer look at the facts behind some of these global companies.

Journalist Klaus Werner-Lobo has uncovered facts that might well make you feel pretty sick. Many of the most popular global brand names are ruthlessly exploitative in their pursuit of profits. The fact that in the so-called ‘developing’ countries, men, women and children slave away for international businesses in return for starvation wages is hardly front page news; we all know that by now. What we don’t hear about is the illegal medical experiments carried out in Africa by the big pharmaceutical corporations, or the indirect financing of foreign civil wars by Western multi-nationals. What are we really buying when we go shopping? Is the ultimate cost the constant headlines about unemployment, wars and climate change?

• a book to make you sit up
• comprehensively researched
• numerous suggestions for further reading

Klaus Werner-Lobo is co-author of The Black Book of Brand Names (Schwarzbuch Markenfirmen). In “The World in Our Hands”, written for all ages, he also names the black sheep of the global economy, and demonstrates definitively how Western affluence is founded on the poverty of the poorest of the poor. This book shows that we don’t have to accept the situation as it is – ultimately, the world is in our hands.

Klaus Werner-Lobo was born in Salzburg in 1967. A full-time writer, he divides his time between Vienna and Brazil. His “Schwarzbuch Markenfirmen” was published by Deuticke in 2001, followed by the Schwarzbuch Öl in 2005. Spiegel online rates him as one of the masterminds of the alternative globalisation movement, alongside Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Michael Moore.