TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perkins,John
TI  - The new confessions of an economic hit man
T2  - A BK currents book
SN  - 9781626566743
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Oakland, CA
PB  - Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
KW  - Perkins, John,
KW  - United States
KW  - National Security Agency
KW  - Biography
KW  - Chas. T. Main, Inc
KW  - World Bank
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Intelligence officers
KW  - Economists
KW  - Energy consultants
KW  - Corporations, American
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-353) and index; Introduction: The new confessions -- Part I. 1963-1971 -- Dirty business -- An economic hit man is born -- "In for life" -- Indonesia : lessons for an EHM -- Saving a country from communism -- Selling my soul -- Part II. 1971-1975 -- My role as inquisitor -- Civilization on trial -- Opportunity of a lifetime -- Panama's president and hero -- Pirates in the Canal Zone -- Soldiers and prostitutes -- Conversations with the general -- Entering a new and sinister period in economic history -- The Saudi Arabian money-laundering affair -- Pimping, and financing Osama bin Laden -- Part III. 1975-1981 -- Panama Canal negotiations and Graham Greene -- Iran's king of kings -- Confessions of a tortured man -- The fall of a king -- Colombia : keystone of Latin America -- American republic versus global empire -- The deceptive résumé -- Ecuador's president battles big oil -- I quit -- Part IV. 1981-2004 -- Ecuador's presidential death -- Panama : another presidential death -- My energy company, Enron, and George W. Bush -- I take a bribe -- The United States invades Panama -- An EHM failure in Iraq -- September 11 and its aftermath for me, personally -- Venezuela : saved by Saddam -- Part V. 2004-today -- Conspiracy : was I poisoned? -- A jackal speaks : the Seychelles conspiracy -- Ecuador rebels -- Honduras : the CIA strikes -- Your friendly banker as EHM -- Vietnam : lessons in a prison -- Istanbul : tools of modern empire -- A coup against Fundacion Pachamama -- Another EHM banking scandal -- Who are today's economic hit men? -- Who are today's jackals? -- Lessons for China -- What you can do -- Things to do -- Documentation of EHM activity from 2004 to 2015 -- John Perkins personal history
N2  - "Featuring 15...new chapters, this expanded edition...brings the story of Economic Hit Men up-to-date and, chillingly, home to the U.S.--but it also gives us hope and the tools to fight back"--Provided by publisher
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