Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Audiobook) by John Perkins, Brian Emerson

from bezoar44

This book deals with important issues, but it just isn't very good. One way to understand this book is as a professional memoir by an unreliable narrator. I don't mean that Perkins reports events and experiences as true that are wholly false; I can't judge that. But, if you keep independent recor...

from JeremyPreacher

This was a fascinating read. I had a general idea that these kind of shenanigans were going on, but the in-depth look at the mechanism was well worth it. That being said, I have the strong suspicion that the author played up his moral discomfort to a very large degree to make himself a more sympa...

from raschneid

This was disturbing and a fairly good read, although Perkins' vantage point, while a scary insight into the history of globalization, is limited. He's a tool, a middle man, and doesn't have access to the conversations of those at the top or the bottom of the global pyramid. I'd have to read a lot...

from KLmesoftly

Ultimately, this read more like a travel memoir than a startling expose. Perkins' near-constant claims of reluctance and remembered crises of conscience make him hard to take seriously as part of the system he claims to have so much knowledge of, and while i love an unreliable narrator (in fictio...

from ashutosh.kumar

Reveals US attemps to expand its global empire by taking over resource-rich countries.PLAN:IMF/World-Book give "Aid"(Loans) to such countries so huge so that the receivers are unable to ever payback; now US starts arm-twisting the countries into mineral-rights/pro-US alignments on geo-political i...