Confessions of an Economic Hitman

De: John Perkins

Narrado por: Brian Emerson

This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire.

"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 Halliburton, Bechtel, Brown and Root, and other United States engineering and construction companies. 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 extraordinary real-life tale exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for American democracy and the world.

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Must read!

Want to understand the problems in the middle east, latin america, the new global economy? Or answer the question 'why do they hate us after we give countries all that money'? Or just get a working handle on how things operate in politics & real life. You don't have to have a degree in economics or anything else. Explained thru the experience of a hitman fending off the jackles. U probable work for a company & will easily see the wider implications. Should be required reading.

Not really as good as I had hoped

The first few chapters are VERY chaotic writing and very hard to follow as he bounces around, not completing a thought. It improves vastly over the book. The next thing is it seems like he wants you to feel sorry for him for being an EHM vs him feeling sorry for what he has done, but he keeps returning to the money. Last is, some of the facts he passes off are opinions and I enjoy writers who can be objective in their writing and not force views on the reader, letting them draw there own conclusions. It's an odd take on history, for sure.

great book

this book was very interesting and easy to follow. the story moved at a good pace. I recommend this book to anyone interested in international intrigue.

Revealing, sobering, almost religious revelations.

The only book that has come close to this one for me was WASHINGTON RULES. Between these two books, all the events, inter-relationships, and political tom-foolery of our government begins to make complete sense. You may not like what you hear, but you will come away a bit more educated.

Thought Provoking!

This book is very insightful. I gives you plenty of insight of what is really going on in world.