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Confession of an Economic Hit Man
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The book is about Economic hit men who are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from different organizations into the coffers of the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources by fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.
The writer John Perkins dedicated this book to the presidents of two countries, men who had been his clients, — Jaime Roldos, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is a global empire. John Perkins told his life story as an economic hit man and tried to reveal the reality and nature of people of the United States of America. The story is about how we got to where we are and why we currently face crises that seem insurmountable. He said this story must be told because only by understanding our past mistakes will we be able to take advantage of future opportunities; because 9/11 happened and so did the second war in Iraq; because in addition to the three thousand people who died on September 11, 2001, at the hands of terrorists, another twenty-four thousand died from hunger and related causes. In fact, twenty-four thousand people die every single day because they are unable to obtain life-sustaining food.
The writer also shared his problems and fear during the writing of this book: how he had to face bribes and threats but his daughter encouraged him to write it, write if, for the grandchildren, you need to do this for the children’s future. He did so with the help of several tools: published documents; personal records and notes; recollection by own and those of others who participated.
He described his teacher role as his teacher Claudine’s role is a fascinating example of the manipulation that underlies the business he had entered. Claudine said your duty is to encourage world leaders to become part of a vast network that promotes U.S. commercial interests. In the end, those leaders become ensnared in a web of debt that ensures their loyalty. We can make use of them whenever we desire to satisfy our political, economic, or military needs. In turn, they reinforce their political positions by bringing industrial parks, power plants, and airports to their people. The owners of U.S engineering/construction companies become fabulously wealthy.
Today we see the results of this system run amok. Executives at our most respected companies hire people at near-slave wages to toil under inhuman conditions in Asian sweatshops. Oil companies are consciously killing people, animals, and plants, and committing genocide among ancient cultures. The pharmaceutical industry denies lifesaving medicines to millions of HIV-infected Africans. Twelve million families in the United States worry about their next meal. The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitation services, and basic education to every person on the planet.
The idea that all economic growth benefits humankind and that the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits, this belief also have a corollary: The concept is, of course, erroneous. We know that in many countries economic growth benefits only a small portion of the population and may, in fact, result in increasingly desperate circumstances for the majority. The truth is that when men and women are rewarded for greed, greed becomes a corrupting motivator. They destroy many cultures as they race toward greater domination, and then they themselves fall. No country or combination of countries can thrive in the long term by exploiting others.
In this book, John Perkins accepts the truth of nature that admitting to a problem is the first step toward finding a solution. Confessing sin is the beginning of redemption. Let this book, then, be the start of our salvation. Let it inspire us to new levels of dedication and drive us to realize our dream of balanced and honorable societies.
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