The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World (John Perkins Economic Hitman Series) by John Perkins (PDF)

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New York Times bestsellerFrom the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generationsWith a presidential election around the corner, questions of America’s military buildup, environmental impact, and foreign policy are on everyone’s mind. Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins goes behind the scenes of the current geopolitical crisis and offers bold solutions to our most pressing problems. Drawing on interviews with other EHMs, jackals, CIA operatives, reporters, businessmen, and activists, Perkins reveals the secret history of events that have created the current American Empire, including: • How the defeats in Vietnam and Iraq have benefited big business • The role of Israel as Fortress America in the Middle East • Tragic repercussions of the IMF’s Asian Economic Collapse • The current Latin American revolution and its lessons for democracy • U.S. blunders in Tibet, Congo, Lebanon, and VenezuelaFrom the U.S. military in Iraq to infrastructure development in Indonesia, from Peace Corps volunteers in Africa to jackals in Venezuela, Perkins exposes a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe, with consequences reflected in our daily headlines. Having raised the alarm, Perkins passionately addresses how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “A sweeping, bold assault on the tyranny of corporate globalization, full of drama and adventure, with devastating stories of greed run wild. But Perkins is undaunted, and offers imaginative ideas for a different world.—Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States “John Perkins’ new book is both an eye-opening expose of global corruption and a fascinating story of adventure and intrigue. This devastating indictment of current economic policies also offers hope by showing the power of the growing movement toward a caring economics worldwide.”—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and The Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations “Having made a splash with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Perkins offers similarly entertaining but disturbing accounts of the American government wreaking havoc around the world in support of American business. In Perkins’s view, American presidents willingly comply with their CEO masters, distributing foreign aid to corrupt Third World leaders who keep a share and return the rest to U.S. business for major projects, leaving their nations poor and massively in debt, and requiring more loans and slavish obedience to U.S. policy. If any leader objects, the CIA destabilizes his government, by assassination if necessary.”—Publishers Weekly About the Author John Perkins is the bestselling author of the classic exposé Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. He is the founder and president of the Dream Change Coalition, which works closely with Amazonian and other indigenous people to help preserve their environments and cultures. From 1971 to 1981 he worked for the international consulting firm of Chas.T. Main, where he became chief economist and director of economics and regional planning. Perkins has lectured and taught at universities and learning centers on four continents and is a regular lecturer for the Omega Center.

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⭐In order to assess this new volume I have looked at notes on John Perkins’ autobiography, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” I have read it, but needed a refresher course, and am appalled all over again at its contents.([…])Perkins was recruited by the international consulting firm of Charles T. Main. He was an economist, with two primary objectives: justify huge loans for countries for huge engineering and construction projects to be carried out by American companies (think Haliburton, Bechtel et al.); after the companies had been paid, he was to help engineer the debtor’s bankruptcy so that country would remain indebted to their creditors and remain pliable when the US wanted `favors’ like military bases, access to natural resources, etc.Starting in Indonesia in 1971, a time when Indonesia was believed to be a key to Southeast Asian stability, he made economic forecasts that won him further projects. In 1972 it was Panama. Later, Saudi Arabia came under his spell, and a deal between it and the USA was consummated. With it came a relationship between the American government and the House of Saud, the bin Laden family, and the Bush family, to the immense financial benefit of the latter.His conscience bothered him since he felt that, by following Main’s directives, he was causing much harm to the client states. Iran was his breaking point. As what Perkins called the “corporatocracy” supported the Shah, which led to class wars and hatred of the American companies, and the American government which it blamed for all its woes, especially the rampant corruption and despotic government. After the turn of the year in 1979, the Shah fled the country; less than a year later the American hostages in the Embassy were taken. He quit his job at Main in 1980.”The Secret History of the American Empire” is another product of his reflections on his past and the changes in his work life. He talks a lot about American influence in Latin America, and the rise of home grown opponents to the Unite States with respect.As I learned a long time ago, every one is said to have his price; United States employees were outstanding at saving skeletons from other’s closets. In fact, after learning of the trap set for President Clinton, he has that information confirmed by a retired CIA officer.Not unsurprisingly, the chickens came home to America to roost. Our policies in the Middle East blew up in our faces. Those in the Middle East caught on to our lust for oil as we established the Shah of Iran, the House of Saud, the ruling families in Kuwait and Jordan, and a friendly dictator in Egypt, and we supported Israeli militarism. They named America and the West as the enemy as the mullahs gained force, al-Qaida grew, and radical politicians replaced moderate ones, exacerbated by the hero worship of the martyrdom of suicide bombers.Here are the roots of our current political crises internationally. Moving to the continent of Africa, Perkins addresses the problems we have inherited from the European colonial expansion. Again, once there was a crack in the system, America rushed in, knowing that it was time to expand its influence. The stories are fascinating, and appalling. A letter he cites at length tells the effects of westernization seen through the eyes of an educated young woman, employed by a NGO.She balances the good that NGOs appear to do against the western influences that attack the fiber of their civilization. In sum she concludes that the bad outweighs the good and calls for a total change of system.Finally, he outlines and discusses briefly the questions essential to making the change the world needs. There are things each and all of us can do, not only in the face of global warming, but also the inequalities we see around us, not only here in the Americas, but also world-wide. Furthermore, he talked to university students who had been told, and believed, that they were America’s future.I was most deeply moved by the mission statement of two high school students from Seattle who had established Global; Awareness and Change [GAC]. Perkins reduced several lines of type into this: “We commit to creating a stable, sustainable, and peaceful world far all peoples everywhere.” Would that we ll could commit to this.I really urge you to get and read this book and resolve to follow at least some of the suggestions at the end. Bear in mind that if you are not to be part of the problem, you must become part of the solution.

⭐The great value of this book by John Perkins as well as of his Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is that, through a series of concrete and dramatic anecdotes, he gives us a feel for how our corporations (quite aptly called the “corporatocracy”), aided by “economic hit men” (IMF, World Bank, etc.),”jackals” (CIA), and the military, work to plunder the third world and working people in the first world to our material, cultural, and moral detriment.The part of this book I must question is the last section in which Perkins deals with what we can do to make things better. He evidently believes that capitalism is reformable without losing its character as capitalism. It is true that under capitalism some good reforms do take place, perhaps attenuated or watered down over time, and generally restricted in scope, and it is equally true that in spite of the usual insufficiency of many of these reforms, earnest pursuit of reform by our citizens is generally worthwhile, in fact essential if we are not to lapse into an unhappy impoverished brain-dead police state, for in the course of participating in a reform movement we gain much of the experience, knowledge, and skill we need to work collectively for the genuinely radical political, economic, cultural, moral, and spiritual change we must bring about if we are to save ourselves and the planet we live and have our being on..Many of the reform movements now under way are often subverted or derailed by agents of the corporatocracy in all three branches of our government as well as in our principal media, in our churches and fraternal organizations, and in our educational systems. Agents of the corporatocracy spend many millions in a form of lobbying that amounts to bribing, more millions in propaganda, propaganda usually quite effective, stoking and playing on fear or anger, increasing the ability of the corporatocracy to manipulate public opinion. The corporatocracy and their agents are good at giving the impression of supporting a reform with only some “minor” modifications, going so far at times as to advocate “red herring” reforms to distract us from what is really needed, and to make sure that whatever executive agencies are involved in instituting or managing a good reform shall be understaffed, incompetent, untransparent, and/or underfunded. While competition among individual capitalists for markets often leads to efficiency and publicly beneficial outcomes, the long-term result of unfettered competition is the formation of monopolies and combinations of monopolies that lead to the ruthless and destructive exploitation of people, resources, and environments. On an international level, acting as more or less national blocs through their governments, these combinations form the economic bases of their respective governments. A ruthless competition among these governments, now imperial powers, develops in competition for markets, for cheap labor, and for cheap raw materials that leads inevitably to fascism and world war, a massive destruction of capital values, and a repeat of the same dreary boom-and-bust cycle– or, if the masses are properly won over and organized, leads to revolution. Both scenarios are frightful, but one, if acted out in history, promises a better future for humanity and the earth. Still, one may ask: Is there another choice?The immediate future, if the two scenarios I describe are the only realistic options, is not pretty. One must think through these matters. Perkins’ books should definitely be included among your study materials.

⭐The author obviously knows his onions and the incidents he writes about are apt to make you shake your head in shame and/or disgust at the way the Yanks and Brits bully, coerce, blackmail, threaten, murder and behave thoroughly horribly in order to rule the world. For me there was a bit too much storytelling (what the hotels were like, where he ate etc.) and not enough in-depth on the actual nitty gritty of our corruption however it’s still an interesting book that just adds more fuel to the fire about our global ambitions and the lack of morals of our dear leaders.

⭐Excellent product at an excellent price with an excellent service.

⭐Any other great book by John I read Confessions of an economic hit man & this follows on nicely MUST READ

⭐IIRC, I read this book what feels like eons ago (a decade or so?), hot off my reading of his conspiracy-laden book CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN. Much of what he claims in these books is contested by other sources, but I will admit that much of what he writes about rings true and reflects certain categories of information that I have from first-hand accounts as well as to certain ruthless aspects of international affairs. However, although some of his interpretations and statistics may well be challenged, this does not diminish that his first-hand accounts and viewpoints are powerfully crafted, convincing and conform to a dark world view. The challenge is teasing out the truth in its fuller form from his writing, which is highly enjoyble. Will read again.

⭐sehr interessantes buch, das sehr ausführlich die systematik und methoden beschreibt, mit denen die amis alleine in südamerika über 50 demokratisch gewählte regierungen gestürtzt, und an deren stelle diktatorische marionetten gesetzt haben, weil ihnen die politische richtung nicht gefiel.unter anderem beschreibt perkins wie auch das aktuelle iran fiasko auf handlungen der cia in den 50er jahren zurückgehen.wo nämlich der demokratisch gewählte premier minister muhammad mossadegh von dem amis miot gewalt abgesetzt, und durch schah resa pahlevi ersetzt wurde.solche und dutzende andere brennende baustellen, die dei amis am planeten hinterlassen haben…wirklich sehr empfehlenswert!!

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