WAR? "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"

J. Perkins; Talking Heads "Life During Wartime"; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, there's a new edition of this terrifying New York Times bestseller, The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

It brings the revelation of EHM ("Economic Hit Men") up-to-date and, chillingly, home to the United States who started it. It also gives hope and the tools to resist and fight back.

 

Former economic hit man John Perkins exposes new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the world out of trillions of dollars.

He then reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else.

It is now the dominant system of business, government, and society today. He also gives readers an insider view of what we each can do to change it.

TED Talk: Confessions of US war crimes

An Economic Hit Man confesses and calls to action

(TEDx Traverse City, 6/24/16) John Perkins describes the coercive methods he used to corrupt, bribe, and threaten heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global U.S. empire.

He also reveals how the brave leaders who did not “play the game" were assassinated or overthrown by the "Jackals" he sent in when they refused US offers.

He brings the world up-to-date about the way this "economic hit man system" has spread from developing countries to the US, Europe, and the rest of the world and offers a strategy for turning this around.

“Each of us," he says, “can participate in this exciting revolution. We can transform a system that is consuming itself into extinction into one that is sustainable and regenerative."

Perkins' books, including The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, have sold over a million copies, spent more than 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists, and are published in more than 30 languages.

As chief economist at a major consulting firm, his experiences advising the World Bank, UN, IMF, US government, Fortune 500 corporations, and heads of state convinced him to devote his life to facilitating peaceful changes to social, political, and economic systems, as well as raising the general consciousness.

He is founder and CEO of a highly successful alternative energy company and a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, two nonprofits dedicated to creating a sustainable, just, peaceful, and thriving world.

Perkins' courage in writing these books and speaking out against his former military and bank bosses exemplifies the courage shown by our Founding Fathers and Mothers when they stood up to the British Empire. Like them, he defied threats and bribes and took action instead.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx.

Economic hit men?

EHM 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 corruption through nonviolent negotiations and coercion, the "jackal" (assassins) swoop in with state-sponsored violence.

The heart of this book is a totally 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
• military coups
• assassinations
• unbridled military power.

All of these are used by the U.S. traditionally (our business-as-usual) and around the world exponentially, now more than during the era Perkins exposes in this book.

 

As dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope: Perkins offers 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. More (audio sample)