Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Los Angeles Times Bestseller

How do we stop the unrelenting evolution of the economic hit man strategy and China’s takeover?

The riveting third edition of this New York Times bestseller blows the whistle on China’s economic hit man (EHM) strategy, exposes corruption on an international scale, and offers much-needed solutions for curing the degenerative Death Economy.

In this shocking exposé, former EHM John Perkins gives an insider view into the corrupt system that cheats and strong-arms countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and ultimately causes staggering income inequality and ecological devastation.

EHMs are highly paid professionals who use development loans to saddle countries with huge debts and force them to serve US interests. Now, a new EHM wave is infecting the world, and at the peak of the devastation sits China, a newly dominant economic power, with its own insidious version of the US EHM blueprint. Twelve explosive new chapters detail the allure, exploitation, and wreckage of China’s EHM strategy in Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

If allowed to continue its rampage, the EHM strategy—whether executed by the United States or China—will destroy life as we know it. However, all is not lost. Perkins offers a plan for transforming this system that places profits above all into a Life Economy that restores the earth. He inspires readers to take actions toward a new era of global cooperation that will end the United States’s and China’s EHM strategies for good.

Table of Contents

Part I: Harbinger for the Future

1 A Defiant President

2 A Savior’s Nightmare

3 Canary in the Cage

Part II: 1963-1971

4 Dirty Business

5 An Economic Hit Man Is Born

6 “In for Life”

7 Indonesia: Lessons for an EHM

8 Saving a Country from Communism

9 Selling My Soul

Part Ill: 1971-1975

1 0 My Role as Inquisitor

11 Civilization on Trial

12 Opportunity of a Lifetime

13 Panama’s President and Hero

14 US Colonialism in the Canal Zone

15 Conversations with the General

16 Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History

17 The Saudi Arabian Money- Laundering Affair

18 Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden

Part IV: 1975-1981

19 Panama Canal Negotiations

20 Iran’s King of Kings

21 Confessions of a Tortured Man

22 The Fall of a King

23 Colombia: Keystone of Latin America

24 American Republic versus Global Empire

25 The Deceptive Resume

26 Ecuador’s President Battles Big Oil

271 Quit

Part V: 1981-2004

28 Ecuador’s Presidential Death

29 Panama: Another Presidential Death

30 My Energy Company and George W. Bush

31 I Take a Bribe

32 The United States Invades Panama

33 An EHM Failure in Iraq

Part VI: 2004-2016

34 Conspiracy: Was I Poisoned?

35 Istanbul: Death versus Life Economy

36 Another EHM Banking Scandal

37 The New Millennium’s New Economic Hit Men

38 The New Millennium’s New Jackals

art VII: China’s EHM Strategy

39 China Swings the Balance

40 China’s Economic Hit Men

41 Latin America

42 Asia

43 Africa

44 The Middle East

45 Europe

46 The United States

Conclusion: We Each Have a Role to Play to End the EHM Strategy

About the Author

John Perkins has written eleven books, including the first edition of this book, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than seventy weeks and was translated into over thirty languages. As a former chief economist, he advised the World Bank, the United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and governments around the world.