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Subject: more on: confessions of an EHM
I am finding this book riveting and was kind of surprised (perhaps
naively) to see the bad reviews of it by 'official' sources. When I started
listening, I was really intrigued because here was a guy saying that he was
doing this stuff for these big private companies in places like Indonesia and
Panama and the Mid-East long before I was aware of their operations in the
Third World in any detail and before names like Haliburton and Blackwater (now
Xe) had become so familiar to us all.
Back in the '70s and '80s I was only very generally aware of this
'takeover of the resources of the globe' scenario.and gameplan, that we are now
seeing so clearly being carried out in places like the Mid-East, Afghanistan,
and Haiti. [and even, now, in the US and Europe, with this planned financial
debacle, which, as I read yesterday, has not been a 'meltdown' or disaster for
those who planned it.]
In a chapter I just read, Perkins recounts a conversation with educated
young adults (in the '70s) in Sumatra in which they outline exactly what we
more clearly see happening today and also refer to the historian Arnold
Toynbee, who they said wrote on this subject (as far back I believe as the
'50s) and said that Vietnam was just a sort of 'holding operation' and that the
main area of interest/putsch for the multinationals was the Mid-East (this is
way before we were hearing so much about the Mid-East and before the invasion
of Iraq, etc. This would have to have been a major reason - real reason - for
the creation of the State of Israel ). He said that the premier 'enemy'/worthy
opponent of the NWO crowd is the Muslim world and that is because people of
strong faith are very hard to change/overcome. (We have noticed the war also
being waged against Christianity here in the US, with the creation of the 'New
Age' quasi-religion, and as the celebration of Christmas as a holy holiday is
becoming virtually forbidden and thru such campaigns as the pro-gay agenda. )
Anyway below are a couple of reviews of the book found on Amazon -- a
bad, dismissive, scoffing review from a mainstream reviewer, and a positive
one from a reader.
As I have said, I disagree with Perkins in one area, in that he does not
identify the 'power behind the throne' - that it really is the international
bankers who are doing this and the USA is just their chosen tool/front-man/thug
for the job. And I disagree that Communism was ever viewed by the bankers as a
real threat - rather it was a part of the whole operation. Probably if Perkins
had included these bits of information/analysis, his book would never have
found a publisher....
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort
to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this
expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at
Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit
man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole
and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding
lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly
paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of
dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an
extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Think John
Le Carré, except it's a true story.
Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style
to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the
World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and
other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on
condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies.
Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in
Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were
smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in
the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments
couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World
Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the
country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to
security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes,
a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World
citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies,
perhaps that's not surprising considering the life he's led. --Alex Roslin
From Publishers Weekly
Perkins spent the 1970s working as an economic planner for an
international consulting firm, a job that took him to exotic locales like
Indonesia and Panama, helping wealthy corporations exploit developing nations
as, he claims, a not entirely unwitting front for the National Security Agency.
He says he was trained early in his career by a glamorous older woman as one of
many "economic hit men" advancing the cause of corporate hegemony. He also says
he has wanted to tell his story for the last two decades, but his shadowy
masters have either bought him off or threatened him until now. The story as
presented is implausible to say the least, offering so few details that Perkins
often seems paranoid, and the simplistic political analysis doesnâ?Tt enhance
his credibility. Despite the claim that his work left him wracked with guilt,
the artless prose is emotionally flat and generally comes across as a personal
crisis of conscience blown up to monstrous proportions, casting Perkins as a
victim not only of his own neuroses over class and money but of dark forces
beyond his control. His claim to have assisted the House of Saud in
strengthening its ties to American power brokers may be timely enough to
attract some attention, but the yarn he spins is ultimately unconvincing,
except perhaps to conspiracy buffs.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved.
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150 of 164 people found the following review helpful:
No proof required, April 26, 2005
By Vaughn Taylor "Vaughn D. Taylor"
This review is from: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Hardcover)
Many of the reviews here refute the truthfulness of this book
because Perkins does not provide evidence for every one of his claims. But,
this is precisely what makes the book an exciting and fast read. How can
Perkins be expected to provide evidence for influencing events in other
countries? Where should we expect to find documentation of these nefarious
deeds? The inner workings of organizations like MAIN, Halliburtion, and Brown &
Root are only ever known when a dissenter arises.
From my perspective, it all seems to add up. I lived in Ecuador in
the 80s. I was young (18), and I didn't know much about politics at the time. I
personally saw many of the projects that Perkins speaks of in this book. I
heard the complaints from my Ecuadorian friends about how the U.S. was
bankrupting their economy by "loaning" money for extensive construction
projects. I saw the jungle along Rio Napo being deforested by unknown (to me)
companies. I spent time in oil towns in the jungle -- like Shell. I saw the dam
that Perkins speaks of in his book.
The only way to gather proof about the truthfulness of his claims
is to see it first hand. Though I seriously doubt that most of us have the guts
to travel to the places where these things happen. Denial, regarding these
issues, seems terribly naive.
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required Many of the reviews here refute the truthfulness of this book because
Perkins does not provide evidence for every one of his claims. But, this is
precisely what makes the book an exciting and fast read. How can Perkins be
expected to provide evidence for influencing events in other countries? Where
should we expect to find documentation of these nefarious deeds? The inner
workings of organizations like MAIN, Halliburtion, and Brown & Root are only
ever known when a dissenter arises.
From my perspective, it all seems to add up. I lived in Ecuador in the
80s. I was young (18), and I didn't know much about politics at the time. I
personally saw many of the projects that Perkins speaks of in this book. I
heard the complaints from my Ecuadorian friends about how the U.S. was
bankrupting their economy by "loaning" money for extensive construction
projects. I saw the jungle along Rio Napo being deforested by unknown (to me)
companies. I spent time in oil towns in the jungle -- like Shell. I saw the dam
that Perkins speaks of in his book.
The only way to gather proof about the truthfulness of his claims is to
see it first hand. Though I seriously doubt that most of us have the guts to
travel to the places where these things happen. Denial, regarding these issues,
seems terribly naive. Vaughn Taylor "Vaughn D. Taylor" April 26, 2005
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Initial post: May 24, 2009 12:52 PM PDT
kooky Kid says:
Bingo! Denial is not only "naive', it is clearly a defense mechanism as
most of the populace in under a virtual spell of denial.One needs to look no
further than the Publishers Weekly review of this book which states that the
book is fare of conspiracy buffs ! Why we find the truth so hard to believe is
that for generations the persons we look up to on thrones and people we vote in
to office are the shareholders and owners of corporations that profit and reap
huge rewards from their game of the empire, yet they hold press conferences to
tell us the taxpayers and voters, obediant sheep, that their decisions are
based on what is good for us as members of the empire. We do not hold them
accountable for their decisions and ignore their self interest and pretend that
we cant see how they are profiting at the expense of 99.9 percent of the
population. It is Stockholm syndrome , we wont dislike our captors because we
are accustomed to them and feel our very survival is dependant on them.
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