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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition

Author: John Perkins
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Date: 28 Feb 2023
ISBN-13: 9781523001897
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How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China's takeover?
The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China's economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy.
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 readers to take actions toward a new era of global cooperation that will end the United States's and China's EHM strategies for good.


Table of Contents


Introduction: The Third Economic Hit Man Wave and China’s EHM Strategy
Part 1: Harbinger for the Future
1. A Defiant President 
2. A Savior’s Nightmare 
3. Canary in the Cage 
Part II: 1963–1971
4. Dirty Business 
5. An Economic Hit Man Is Born
6. “In for Life” 
7. Indonesia: Lessons for an EHM 
8. Saving a Country from Communism 
9. Selling My Soul 
Part III: 1971–1975
10. My Role as Inquisitor 
11. Civilization on Trial 
12. Opportunity of a Lifetime 
13. Panama’s President and Hero 
14. US Colonialism in the Canal Zone 
15. Conversations with the General 
16. Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History 
17. The Saudi Arabian Money-Laundering Affair 
18. Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden 
Part IV: 1975–1981
19. Panama Canal Negotiations 
20. Iran’s King of Kings 
21. Confessions of a Tortured Man 
22. The Fall of a King 
23. Colombia: Keystone of Latin America 
24. American Republic versus Global Empire 
25. The Deceptive Résumé 
26. Ecuador’s President Battles Big Oil 
27. I Quit 
Part V: 1981–2004
28. Ecuador’s Presidential Death 
29. Panama: Another Presidential Death 
30. My Energy Company and George W. Bush 
31. I Take a Bribe
32. The United States Invades Panama 
33. An EHM Failure in Iraq 
Part VI: 2004–2016
34. Conspiracy: Was I Poisoned? 
35. Istanbul: Death versus Life Economy 
36 Another EHM Banking Scandal 
37. The New Millennium’s New Economic Hit Men
38. The New Millennium’s New Jackals 
Part VII: China’s EHM Strategy
39. China Swings the Balance 
40. China’s Economic Hit Men 
41. Latin America 
42. Asia 
43. Africa 
44. The Middle East 
45. Europe 
46. The United States 
Conclusion: We Each Have a Role to Play to End the EHM Strategy


Author Description


John Perkins has written eleven books, including the first edition of this book, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than seventy weeks and was translated into over thirty languages. As a former chief economist, he advised the World Bank, the United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and governments around the world.






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