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The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages.

 

New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins's classic bestseller brings the story of economic hit men (EHMs) up to date and, chillingly, home to the US. Over 40 percent of the book is new, including chapters identifying today's EHMs and a detailed chronology extensively documenting EHM activity since the first edition was published in 2004.

 

Former economic hit man John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else--to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change it.

 

Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. If the EHMs can't maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. The heart of this book is a completely new section, over 100 pages long, that exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools--false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power--are used around the world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed over a decade ago.

 

The material in this new section ranges from the Seychelles, Honduras, Ecuador, and Libya to Turkey, Western Europe, Vietnam, China, and, in perhaps the most unexpected and sinister development, the United States, where the new EHMs--bankers, lobbyists, corporate executives, and others--"con governments and the public into submitting to policies that make the rich richer and the poor poorer."

 

But as dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers a detailed list of specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Preface xi / Introduction: The New Confessions 1 / PART 1:19B3-1971 / 1 Dirty Business 7 / 2 An Economic Hit Man Is Born 15 / 3 "InforLife" 24 / 4 Indonesia: Lessons for an EHM 32 / 5 Saving a Country from Communism 35 / G Selling My Soul 40 / PART II: 1971-1975 / 7 My Role as Inquisitor 49 / 8 Civilization on Trial 53 / 9 Opportunity of a Lifetime 58 / 10 Panama's President and Hero 65 / 11 Pirates in the Canal Zone 70 / 12 Soldiers and Prostitutes 73 / 13 Conversations with the General 77 / 14 Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History 83 / 15 The Saudi Arabian Money-Laundering Affair 88 / IG Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden 101 / PART III: 1975-1981 / 17 Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene 109 / 1B Iran's King of Kings 117 / 19 Confessions of a Tortured Man 122 / 2 0 The Fall of a King 126 / 21 Colombia: Keystone of Latin America 129 / 22 American Republic vsGlobal Empire 133 / 23 The Deceptive Resume 140 / 24 Ecuador's President Batties Big Oil 150 / 25 I Quit 155 / PART IV: 1981-2004 / 2G Ecuador's Presidential Death 161 / 27 Panama: Another Presidential Death 166 / 2 8 My Energy Company, Enron, and George WBush 170 / 29 ITakeaBribe 176 / 30 The United States Invades Panama 183 / 31 An EHM Failure in Iraq 192 / 3 2 September 11 and Its Aftermath for Me, Personally 199 / 33 Venezuela: Saved by Saddam 206 / PART V: 2004-TODAY / 34 Conspiracy: Was I Poisoned? 215 / 35 AJackal Speaks: The Seychelles Conspiracy 221 / 3 G Ecuador Rebeis 226 / 37 Honduras: The CIA Strikes 233 / 3 8 Your Friendly Banker as EHM 238 / 38 Vietnam: Lessons in a Prison 242 / 40 Istanbul: Tools of Modern Empire 249 / 41 A Coup against Fundacion Pachamama 255 / 42 Another EHM Banking Scandal 260 / 43 Who Are Today's Economic Hit Men? 265 / 44 Who Are Today's Jackais? 276 / 45 Lessons for China 283 / 4G What You Can Do 289 / 47 Things to Do 299 / Documentation of Economic Hit Man Activity, / 2004-2015 309 / John Perkins Personal History 339 / Notes 343 / Acknowledgments 354 / Index 357 / About the Author 364