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Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man

ISBN: 9781576753019 | 1576753018
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
Pub. Date: 9/1/2004

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Economic hit men are highly paid professionals who cheat countries out of trillions of dollars. They funnel World Bank, government and foreign aid funds into the coffers of international businesses and a few wealthy families. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion and murder.John Perkins was one of these hit men, and his first-hand account contains explosive revelations on Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin American hotspots. He discloses the clandestine support received by Osama bin Laden as well as... MORE
Prefaceix
Prologuexvi
PART I: 1963 -- 1971
An Economic Hit Man Is Born
3(9)
... MORE
``In for Life''
12(8)
Indonesia: Lessons for an EHM
20(3)
Saving a Country from Communism
23(5)
Selling My Soul
28(9)
PART II: 1971 -- 1975
My Role as Inquisitor
37(5)
Civilization on Trial
42(5)
Jesus, Seen Differently
47(5)
Opportunity of a Lifetime
52(6)
Panama's President and Hero
58(5)
Pirates in the Canal Zone
63(4)
Soldiers and Prostitutes
67(4)
Conversations with the General
71(5)
Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History
76(5)
The Saudi Arabian Money-laundering Affair
81(12)
Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden
93(8)
PART III: 1975 -- 1981
Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene
101(7)
Iran's King of Kings
108(5)
Confessions of a Tortured Man
113(4)
The Fall of a King
117(3)
Colombia: Keystone of Latin America
120(4)
American Republic versus Global Empire
124(7)
The Deceptive Resume
131(10)
Ecuador's President Battles Big Oil
141(5)
I Quit
146(7)
PART IV: 1981 -- PRESENT
Ecuador's Presidential Death
153(5)
Panama: Another Presidential Death
158(4)
My Energy Company, Enron, and George W. Bush
162(5)
I Take a Bribe
167(6)
The United States Invades Panama
173(9)
An EHM Failure in Iraq
182(7)
September 11 and its Aftermath for Me, Personally
189(7)
Venezuela: Saved by Saddam
196(7)
Ecuador Revisited
203(8)
Piercing the Veneer
211(10)
Epilogue221(5)
John Perkins Personal History226(4)
Notes230(10)
Index240(8)
About the Author248
John Perkins founded an alternative energy company


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