"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. They play a game as old as Empire but one that has taken on terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization."
John Perkins should know--as an economic hit man for an international consuiting firm, he convinced developing countries to accept enormous loans and to funnel that money to U.S. corporations. The American government and international aid agencies then requested their "pound of flesh," including access to natural resources, military cooperation, and political support.
Preface
Prologue
PART I: 1963-1971
1 An Economic Hit Man Is Born
2 "In for Life"
3 Indonesia: Lessons for an EHM
4 Saving a Country from Communism
5 Selling My Soul
PART II:1971-1975
6 My Role as Inquisitor
7 Civilization on Trial
8 Jesus, Seen Differently
9 Opportunity of a Lifetime
10 Panama's President and Hero
11 Pirates in the Canal Zone
12 Soldiers and Prostitutes
13 Conversations with the General
14 Entering a New and Sinister Period in
Economic History
15 The Saudi Arabian Money-laundering Affair
16 Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden
PART III:1975-1981
17 Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene
18 Iran's King of Kings
19 Confessions of a Tortured Man
20 The Fall of a King
21 Colombia: Keystone of Latin America
22 American Republic Versus Global Empire
23 The Deceptive Resume
24 Ecuador's President Battles Big Oil
25 I Quit
PART IV: 1981-PRESENT
26 Ecuador's Presidential Death
27 Panama: Another Presidential Death
28 My Energy Company, Enron, and George W. Bush
29 I Take a Bribe
30 The United States Invades Panama
31 An EHM Failure in Iraq
32 September 11 and Its Aftermath for Me, Personally
33 Venezuela: Saved by Saddam
34 Ecuador Revisited
35 Piercing the Veneer
What You Can Do
Epilogue
John Perkins Personal History
Notes
Index
About the Author
