The New Confessions of an Economic Hit ManBerrett-Koehler Publishers, 09/02/2016 - 384 páginas Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this new edition of the New York Times bestseller brings the story of Economic Hit Men up-to-date and, chillingly, home to the U.S.―but it also gives us hope and the tools to fight back. The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men. John Perkins wrote that they are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. In Perkins's case the tool was debt-convincing strategically important countries to borrow huge amounts of money for enormous, development projects that served the very rich while driving the country deeper into poverty and debt. And once indebted, these countries could be controlled. In this latest edition, Perkins provides revealing new details about how he and others did their work. But more importantly, in an explosive new section he describes how the EHM tools are being used around the world more widely than ever-even in the U. S. itself. The cancer has metastasized, yet most people still aren't aware of it. Fear and debt drive the EHM system. We are hammered with messages that terrify us into believing that we must pay any price, assume any debt, to stop the enemies who, we are told, lurk at our doorsteps. The EHM system-employing false economics, bribes, surveillance, deception, debt, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power-has become the dominant system of economics, government, and society today. It has created what Perkins calls a Death Economy. But Perkins offers hope: he concludes with dozens of specific, concrete suggestions for actions all of us can take to wrest control of our world away from the economic hit men, and help give birth to a Life Economy. |
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The New Confessions | |
19631971 | |
Dirty Business | |
An Economic Hit Man Is Born | |
In for Life | |
Lessons for an | |
Saving a Country from Communism | |
The Deceptive Résumé | |
Ecuadors President Battles Big | |
Quit | |
19812004 | |
Ecuadors Presidential Death | |
Another Presidential Death | |
My Energy Company Enron and George W Bush | |
Take a Bribe | |
Selling My Soul | |
19711975 | |
My Role as Inquisitor | |
Civilization on Trial | |
Opportunity of a Lifetime | |
Panamas President and Hero | |
Pirates in the Canal Zone | |
Soldiers and Prostitutes | |
Conversations with the General | |
Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History | |
The Saudi Arabian MoneyLaundering Affair | |
Pimping and Financing Osama bin Laden | |
19751981 | |
Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene | |
Irans King of Kings | |
Confessions of a Tortured | |
The Fall of a King | |
Keystone of Latin America | |
American Republic vs Global Empire | |
The United States Invades Panama | |
An EHM Failure in Iraq | |
September 11 and Its Aftermath for Me Personally | |
Saved by Saddam | |
2004TODAY | |
Was I Poisoned? | |
The Seychelles Conspiracy | |
Ecuador Rebels | |
The CIA Strikes | |
Your Friendly Banker as | |
Lessons in a Prison | |
Tools of Modern Empire | |
Who Are Todays Economic Hit Men? | |
Lessons for China | |
Things to | |
John Perkins Personal History | |
About the Author | |
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