ISBN: 0452287081
Godina izdanja: 2006
Oblast: Ekonomija
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

John Perkins - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Plume, 2006
303 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

As an Economic Hit Man (EHM), John Perkins helped further American imperial interests in countries such as Ecuador, Panama, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. The events of 9/11 - a direct result of the activities of EHMs in the 1970s - finally forced him to confront the role he played himself, and to reveal the truth to the rest of the world.

`Economic hit men,” John Perkins writes, “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.”

John Perkins should know—he was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the U.S.—from Indonesia to Panama—to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U. S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks—dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission.

This New York Times bestseller exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for American democracy and the world. It is a compelling story that also offers hope and a vision for realizing the American dream of a just and compassionate world that will bring us greater security.
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John Perkins is an activist and author. As a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, Perkins says that he was an `economic hit man` for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinational corporations cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
However, after several years struggling internally over the role he was playing in crippling foreign economies, he quit his consulting job. In the 1980s Perkins founded and directed a successful independent energy company, which he subsequently sold. Since then he has been heavily involved with non-profit organizations in Ecuador and around the world. He continues this work today, in addition to his writing.
His new book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, 3rd Edition: China’s EHM Strategy; Ways to Stop the Global Takeover, a follow-up to international best-seller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, will be released on February 28th, 2023.
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Contents:
An economic hit man is born
`In for life`
Indonesia: lessons for an EHM
Saving a country from communism
Selling my soul
My role as inquisitor
Civilization on trial
Jesus, seen differently
Opportunity of a lifetime
Panam`s 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 money-laundering affair
Pimping, and financing Osama bin Laden
Panama Canal negotiations and Graham Greene
Iran`s king of kings
Confessions of a tortured man
The fall of a king
Colombia: keystone of Latin America
American republic versus global empire
The deceptive resume
Ecuador`s president battles oil
I quit
Ecuador`s presidential death
Panama: another presidential death
My energy company, Enron, and George W. Bush
I take a bribe
The United States invades Panama
An EHM failure in Iraq
September 11 and its aftermath for me, personally
Venezuela: saved by Saddam
Ecuador revisited
Piercing the veneer


Nonfiction, Economics, Politics, 0452287081