Ten years ago, John Perkins shocked the world with the publication of his blockbuster bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, the astonishing true story of his role as front man for a system that traded in fraud, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and even murder. The book, which spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 32 languages, revealed how as an EHM he helped mire countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East in fear and debt and held them in servitude to US interests with the all-too-frequent backing of CIA jackal assassins and the military. In his even more chilling new edition—greatly expanded with fifteen explosive new chapters—Mr. Perkins brings the story of economic hit men up to date and home to the United States.
Perkins explains that the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the U.S. and everywhere else — to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Nevertheless, he is optimistic. In his presentation at Busboys and Poets today, the author will share his belief in a more promising future, and will provide concrete strategies for how each and every one of us can do something to transform a failed geo-political-economic system into one that will turn crises into opportunities — in other words how we can convert what he calls a “death economy†into a “life economy.â€
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