Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell-all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than 1.25 million copies, and has been translated into 32 languages.
New Revelations: Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins’s classic bestseller brings the story of economic hit men (EHMs) up to date and, chillingly, home to the US.
Over40 percent of the book is new, including chapters identifying today’s EHMs and a detailed chronology extensively documenting EHM activity since the first edition was published in 2004.
Former economic hit man John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly EHM cancer he helped create has spread far more widely and deeply than ever in the US and everywhere else—to become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, he gives an insider view of what we each can do to change it.
Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. If the EHMs can’t maintain the corrupt status quo through nonviolent coercion, the jackal assassins swoop in. The heart of this book is a completely new section, over 100 pages long, that exposes the fact that all the EHM and jackal tools—false economics, false promises, threats, bribes, extortion, debt, deception, coups, assassinations, unbridled military power—are used around the world today exponentially more than during the era Perkins exposed over a decade ago.
The material in this new section ranges from the Seychelles, Honduras, Ecuador, and Libya to Turkey, Western Europe, Vietnam, China, and, in perhaps the most unexpected and sinister development, the United States, where the new EHMs—bankers, lobbyists, corporate executives, and others—"con governments and the public into submitting to policies that make the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
But as dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers a detailed list of specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all.
Kiruki –
Until the Lion knows how to write, the story of the hunt always glorifies the hunter!
This is the predicament of many Africans as their stories out there are told by their conquerors. In many cases, what should come out heroic and simmering with bravado limbs in Ignominiously and sits at the back without so much as arousing a whiff of excitement from the congregation! This is the narrative ABANTU seeks to neutralize.
ABANTU is the story of the Mt Kenya Bantu chronicling the long journey from the Nile to Mt Kenya – also called Kirimaara by the Ameru, the earliest settlers in the region. The book covers and demystifies many commonly talked about myths of origin of the Agikuyu, Aembu, Akamba, Abagusii and the Ameru. In the process, it creates a common thread that sews them back together as they left the ancient kingdom of Meroe circa 300 AD.
Cultural ceremonies of Ngurario, circumcision and warfare are covered in interesting detail that should incite the reader to carry out more research…
… AND,… DID YOU KNOW THAT THE MAASAI ARE GENETIC COUSINS OF THE MT KENYA BANTU?
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