Confessions of an economic hit man [electronic resource] / John Perkins.
Series: BK currents bookc2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xxi, 250 p.) : ill., map, facsimsSubject(s):- Perkins, John, 1945-
- United States. National Security Agency -- Biography
- Economists -- United States -- Biography
- Energy consultants -- United States -- Biography
- Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography
- Chas. T. Main, Inc
- World Bank -- Developing countries
- Corporations, American -- Foreign countries
- Corporations, American -- Corrupt practices
- Imperialism -- History -- 20th century
- Imperialism -- History -- 21st century
eBooks
Description based on print version record.
An economic hit man is born -- "In for life" -- Indonesia : lessons for an EHM -- Saving a country from communism -- Selling my soul -- My role as inquisitor -- Civilization on trial -- Jesus, seen differently -- Opportunity of a lifetime -- Panama's president and hero -- Pirates in the Canal Zone -- Soldiers and prostitutes -- Conversations with the general -- Entering a new and sinister period in economic history -- The Saudi Arabian money-laundering affair -- Pimping, and financing Osama bin Laden -- Panama Canal negotiations and Graham Greene -- Iran's king of kings -- Confessions of a tortured man -- The fall of a king -- Colombia : keystone of Latin America -- American republic versus global empire -- The deceptive r(acute)esum(acute)e -- Ecuador's president battles big oil -- I quit -- Ecuador's presidential death -- Panama : another presidential death -- My energy company, Enron, and George W. Bush -- I take a bribe -- The United States invades Panama -- An EHM failure in Iraq -- September 11 and its aftermath for me, personally -- Venezuela : saved by Saddam -- Ecuador revisited -- Piercing the veneer.
Includes bibliographical references and index.