TY - BOOK AU - Perkins,John TI - Confessions of an economic hit man T2 - A BK currents book SN - 1576753018 AV - UB271.U52 P41 PY - 2004///] CY - San Francisco PB - Berrett-Koehler Publishers KW - Perkins, John, KW - United States KW - National Security Agency KW - Biography KW - Chas. T. Main, Inc KW - World Bank KW - Developing countries KW - fast KW - Economists KW - Energy consultants KW - Intelligence officers KW - Corporations, American KW - Foreign Countries KW - Corrupt practices KW - Imperialism KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - 15.85 history of America KW - bcl KW - 83.04 teaching, profession and organizations of economics KW - USA KW - gnd KW - swd KW - External debt KW - Political influence KW - Corruption KW - Intelligence services KW - Multinational corporations KW - Autobiography KW - Globalisation KW - Power (International relations) KW - Overseas item KW - John Perkins KW - Biographies KW - Biographies (form) KW - gtt KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf KW - Erlebnisbericht N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1963-1971 -- An economic hit man is born -- "In for life" -- Indonesia: lessons for an EHM -- Saving a country from communism -- Selling my soul -- 1971-1975 -- 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 -- 1975-1981 -- 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�esum�e -- Ecuador's president battles big oil -- I quit -- 1981-present -- 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 N2 - A former consultant to the U.S. government reveals the inner workings of the high-stakes economic game that encourages Third World economies to borrow money so that major corporations like Halliburton end up getting the contracts UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10205952 UR - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=808526880666247652# UR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nndAWd6w7xo UR - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31157 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0715/2004046353-d.html UR - http://www.mackin.com/BookPics/Book.aspx?isbn=9781576753019 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stanford/Doc?id=10205952 UR - https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/-/9781576755129/?ar ER -