This english translation of the original work "Le Hold Up Planétaire", was done by Kirk McElhearn, and published in France by Calmann-Lévy in October 1998, is now made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence known as Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial [local copy] with the following modification to the rights granted in section 3:

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It will always be available online at the url http://www.dicosmo.org/HoldUp/English/Hijacking_the_World.pdf and in HTML here (thanks to Javier Smaldone for the formatting) .