The new confessions of an economic hit man / John Perkins.

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    • Publication Information:
      First edition.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: "Former economic hit man (EHM) John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the United States and everywhere else--to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change it."--Page [4] of cover.
    • Content Notes:
      Introduction: The new confessions -- Part I: 1963-1971. Dirty business -- An economic hit man is born -- "In for life" -- Indonesia: lessons for an EHM -- Saving a country from communism -- Selling my soul -- Part II: 1971-1975. My role as inquisitor -- Civilization on trial -- Opportunity of a lifetime -- Panama'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 -- Part III: 1975-1981. 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 vs. global empire -- The deceptive résumé -- Ecuador's president battles big oil -- I quit -- Part IV: 1981-2004. 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 -- Part V: 2004-today. Conspiracy: was I poisoned? -- A jackal speaks: the Seychelles conspiracy -- Ecuador rebels -- Honduras: the CIA strikes -- Your friendly banker as EHM -- Vietnam: lessons in a prison -- Istanbul: tools of modern empire -- A coup against Fundación Pachamama -- Another EHM banking scandal -- Who are today's economic hit men? -- Who are today's jackals? -- Lessons for China -- What you can do -- Things to do -- Documentation of economic hit man activity, 2004-2015 -- John Perkins personal history.
    • Notes:
      Updated and expanded edition of: Confessions of an economic hit man.
      "15 explosive new chapters with new revelations on: how economic hit men have spread in the United States and worldwide; how the EHM system is more treacherous today than ever; what we can do, individually and collectively, to save our freedom"--Cover.
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
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    • Other Titles:
      Confessions of an economic hit man.
    • ISBN:
      9781626566743 (pbk. : acid-free paper) :
    • Accession Number:
      2015036436
    • Accession Number:
      928888768
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.977058