Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 337.73
EAN: 9780143142126
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 0143142127
Label: Penguin Audio
Manufacturer: Penguin Audio
Number Of Items: 9
Number Of Pages: 1
Publication Date: June 05, 2007
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Sales Rank: 376075
Studio: Penguin Audio

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
In his stunning memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins detailed his former role as an "economic hit man" in the international corporate skulduggery of a de facto American Empire. Now Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world, drawing on interviews to examine the current geopolitical crisis, and providing a compassionate plan to reimagine our world.




Rating: - Excellent
Read this book if you are not afraid of knowing what the Corporations are up to in the world.

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Rating: - Should be read in schools and colleges
Excellently written, very informative, should be read by everyone, reads like a thriller. Gives a good view behind the curtain of American history and beyond what the media wants us to believe.

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Rating: - No cover jacket on book sent
Just thought I'd inform fellow customers that I ordered a hardback book and received it without the cover jacket.

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Rating: - We must never let the military-industrial complex endanger our liberties (D. Eisenhower)
After a life of `robbing from the poor and giving to the rich' as an economic hit man, thereby pocketing his commissions, John Perkins became an environment activist and a militant for change in the policies of the corporatocracy.

Corporatocracy
The author delivers in this book many well directed punches into the face of his former employers, transnational companies which act as imperial dictatorships in the global economy.
Together with their long arms (controlled or corrupt ... Read More

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Rating: - This book will change your view of the USA in the world!
As a former "Economic Hit Man", Perkins reveals the damage done to nations who do not yield to US demands for their resources. He shows how the usual pattern is to send in the "Jackals" (the CIA) to do the initial dirty work including assassinations, starting internal wars, and many other things. The EHMs then move in to privatise local institutions which are acquired by US interests, and set up massive loans which poor countries can never afford to repay. Among the examples given are Indonesia, Bolivia, ... Read More

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