Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Title of Book: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Author: John Perkins

Published by Berret-Koehler Publishers Inc, 2004


Review:

Economic hit men, as defined by John Perkins, 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 (assassinations).

John Perkins knew as he used to be an economic hit man or EHM for short. As an EHM, his job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the United States – 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 US-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks – dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission and more importantly, into its bidding.

This extraordinary real-life tale exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for Amercian democracy and the world.


Comment:

Worth a read if you care about our world, for John Perkins is one. Through this book, one gains insight on what has been going on behind the scene for some of the world events since the 60s. Rather disturbing also, if all of what the writer has exposed are true, which is quite possible as he was part of the team who had carried out the mission of destruction.

But are we able to do anything about it? To stop the ongoing and impending destruction?

Irregardless, it is indeed an interesting read for the intellectual. It's also a book for those who believe in conspiracy theory.


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