Consuming
the Congo

War and Confict
Minerals in the
World's
Deadliest Place

July 1, 2011  

If You Poison
Us: Uranium and
Native Americans
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(Red Crane,1994)

"Eichstaedt offers
a well-documented,
emotional account
of the plight of
the Navajos..."
--Library Journal

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Journalism
Co-author:Bucharest Express, an award-winning
feature film about horrors of trafficking in women
and illegal prescription drugs in eastern Europe.
On the border of South Sudan and the DR
Congo
, waiting for Joseph Kony.
Photo: Matt Brown
Mount Kilimanjaro
Uganda
Afghanistan
Macedonia
Albania
Peter Eichstaedt
“Peter Eichstaedt’s Consuming the Congo is a comprehensive and
thorough exposure of brutality that has not been equaled since the
genocide in Rwanda. . . . The book is a tour de force of reporting.”

-Andrew Rosenbaum, New York Journal of Books, July 30, 2011lw

"Consuming the Congo is a powerful and long-overdue expose of greed
and violence in the battle over Africa’s  mineral wealth. “Conflict
minerals” exploited by a complex patchwork of armed opportunists —
and bought by foreign companies and governments — deserve the same
sort of attention focused on “conflict diamonds” during the past
decade. This is a harrowing and important work that shows yet again
that far-flung conflicts touch closer to home that we may imagine."

--Greg Campbell,
author of Blood Diamonds; Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most
Precious Stones and other books

"An exceptional book that opens up the complicated and brutal reality
of life in the Democratic Republic of the Congo."

--Sarnata Reynolds, Advocacy and Policy Director, Refugee and
Migrants Rights, Amnesty International USA
What's being said about
Consuming the Congo
Books
"You must read
this powerful
book. This story
calls out to our
very humanity."
--Archbishop
Desmond Tutu

"A compelling
look at a
little-known
African war,
driven by a mad
man, kept alive
by bloody
regional politics
and the apathy of
the wider
world..."
--Doug Farah,
author of
Merchant of Death
"Exhilarating,
exhaustive, and
written with a
passion for a
troubled land."
--Rob Crilly,
author of Saving
Darfur

"Pirate State
disentagles the
complex web of
greed, extremism,
and sheer
desperation that
manifests itself
in the
increasingly bold
attacks by Somali
pirates..."
-- Dr. J. Peter
Pham, National
Committee on
American Foreign
Policy
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