By John Perkins
with new material from the author (2006 edition)
"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 U.S. corporations. Saddled with huge
debts, these countries came under the control of the U.S.
government, World Bank, and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies
that acted like loan sharks - dictating repayment terms and
bullying foreign governments into submission.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, exposes the little known
inner workings of a system that leads to the impoverishment of
millions of people across the planet in the interests of a
few.
Plume Press, Perkins, softcover, ISBN:0-452-28708-1, Notes,
Index, 277pp
