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Confessions of an economic hit man

9781576753019

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Confessions of an economic hit man

[Book]

John Perkins

1st ed

San Francisco :

Berrett-Koehler Publishers,

c2004

1 online resource (xxi, 250 p.) :

ill., map, facsims

A BK currents book

Includes bibliographical references and index

An economic hit man is born -- "In for life" -- Indonesia : lessons for an EHM -- Saving a country from communism -- Selling my soul -- My role as inquisitor -- Civilization on trial -- Jesus, seen differently -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Ecuador revisited -- Piercing the veneer

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Corporations, American-- Corrupt practices

Corporations, American-- Foreign countries

Economists-- United States, Biography

Energy consultants-- United States, Biography

Imperialism-- History-- 20th century

Imperialism-- History-- 21st century

Intelligence officers-- United States, Biography

Perkins, John,1945-

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