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***THE WORD OF MOUTH INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NOW UPDATED WITH 15 EXPLOSIVE NEW CHAPTERS***

False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the 'corporatocracy' - a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments and rich and powerful individuals - to…

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Whereas I spent my time extracting secret information from corporations to potentially cause their demise, John Perkins was flying around the world trying to do the same thing to developing nations. A sobering tale of bad policies and bad leaders pushed on unsuspecting populations, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is a nail-biting expose of what America is willing to do regardless of the collateral damage to other countries. 

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Wars are fought on many fronts and one of the most important during the Cold War was economic warfare. This is the bestselling inside story of John Perkins whose role was to persuade Third World countries to take large, unnecessary loans so they would become dependent on the West. It made a few individuals very rich and the countries even poorer. The book sheds light t into dealings you wouldn’t hope were true about institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, and the US Treasury Department. But it is. A similar strategy has later been adopted by China, which…

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