Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (3rd Edition)

By: John Perkins

Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt

In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation.

EHMs are highly paid professionals who use development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests. Now, a new EHM wave is infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China, a newly dominant economic power, with its own insidious version of the US EHM blueprint. Twelve explosive new chapters detail the allure, exploitation, and wreckage of China’s EHM strategy in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

If allowed to continue its rampage, the EHM strategy—whether executed by the United States or China—will destroy life as we know it. However, all is not lost. Perkins offers a plan for transforming this system that places profits above all into a Life Economy that restores the earth. He inspires listeners to take actions toward a new era of global cooperation that will end the United States’s and China’s EHM strategies for good.

(P)2023 Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Just wow

I've been through enough materials to learn over the years what this country is up to, and what we did, when you travel you get to learn a lot, all the dirty deeds Usa did in countries like Vietnam, however, this book adds additional layers of information, and I can align with the writer, how amazing people are in Indonesia, or Cuba, or other countries not "we" but the corrupt few, now perhaps more, exploited, committed crimes, harmed innocent people, created chaos, anything that allows them to make an extra buck, good job big oil, US presidents, and wonderful military.

info realistic

how the job was done it could be more narrative and execution steps and things to do organize an event in kazakhbor liberia or middle east

it is not all bad and every country plays the game some good things done by this country and what can be done to use their service for developing country and jow can they come out ofntheir rat race

Very Slanted!!

I had trouble listening to this because its very slanted. He'll touch on the true global corporate monopolies or global corporations taking over the world essentially. However he only highlighted that corruption coming from the conservative side. Which is a blatant lie. I could have taken him seriously if he had balance in calling out how the foundation was truly built and used. To pretend this corrupt globalism wasn't abused on steroids by bad actors with leftist ideologies is simply disingenuous and manipulative. Not a fan of the writer! However still great information in the book. One just has to be aware of his bias and manipulative sentence arrangements.