In the previous book, «The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,» John Perkins exposes the destructive schemes of the “economic hit men”: he writes that they are highly paid professionals who siphon off trillions of dollars from countries around the world. They use methods such as falsified financial reports, rigged elections, blackmail, extortion, sex, and murder.
Perkins himself worked in lending: his job was to persuade strategically important states to borrow huge sums of money for large-scale “scientific and technical” projects designed to protect the interests of the richest people—while plunging countries into poverty and debt. And the more debt a country has, the easier it is to control.
Fear and debt are what the system of economic hit men is built on. We are made to feel afraid so that we pay any amount and take on any debt. The economic hit men system—fake economics, bribes, surveillance, deception, debt, coups d’état, murders, and abuse of military power—has turned into the dominant economic, governmental, and social system.
In his new book, Perkins tells in detail how he and others like him carried out their work. The book is supplemented with documentary evidence of the activities of the “economic hit men” for the period 2004–2015, as well as a scandalous section on the fact that their methods are being applied far more actively now than ever——even in America itself. The new material focuses on countries: Seychelles, Honduras, Ecuador, Libya, Turkey, Vietnam, China, the United States, and Western Europe.
The book was also published under the title «The New Confession of an Economic Hit Man».