Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How accurate is it?
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, as narrated by John Perkins – who claims that he started writing the book in the 80’s, but was persuaded either through threats or bribes to stop – tells the story of how he began as an Economic Hit Man (EHM) and his professional activity with Chas. T. Main, an “independent” utilities consultant to the governments of various developing countries.
As an EHM, his job was to write exaggerated predictions on potential utilities use and then convince leaders of developing countries to take on loans that they couldn’t possibly repay, in order to commission American engineering companies to build the infrastructure. Perkins claims he traveled all over the world and witnessed key events including the fall of the Shah of Iran, Saudi money-laundering affair, the assassination of Panama’s President and the subsequent US invasion of Panama. …show more content…
The tendency for one to either believe the events or not, partly depends on which part of the world you live in, or your knowledge on world history, or better still, whether to believe a “true life events” story from someone who made a living for years from deception and exaggeration.
Perkins stated that if bribing the leaders of countries with massive loans they could never repay didn’t work, then the jackals will be sent in to kill selected targets and to create mayhem that would ensure the ‘right’ people would be put into power. This suggested that anyone who challenges the status quo is either assassinated or overthrown, but the question that remains unanswered is: how come Perkins himself has not been assassinated or silenced? If what he’s said is true, why wouldn’t an assassination happy cabal kill him to prevent the exposure of their
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, as narrated by John Perkins – who claims that he started writing the book in the 80’s, but was persuaded either through threats or bribes to stop – tells the story of how he began as an Economic Hit Man (EHM) and his professional activity with Chas. T. Main, an “independent” utilities consultant to the governments of various developing countries.
As an EHM, his job was to write exaggerated predictions on potential utilities use and then convince leaders of developing countries to take on loans that they couldn’t possibly repay, in order to commission American engineering companies to build the infrastructure. Perkins claims he traveled all over the world and witnessed key events including the fall of the Shah of Iran, Saudi money-laundering affair, the assassination of Panama’s President and the subsequent US invasion of Panama. …show more content…
The tendency for one to either believe the events or not, partly depends on which part of the world you live in, or your knowledge on world history, or better still, whether to believe a “true life events” story from someone who made a living for years from deception and exaggeration.
Perkins stated that if bribing the leaders of countries with massive loans they could never repay didn’t work, then the jackals will be sent in to kill selected targets and to create mayhem that would ensure the ‘right’ people would be put into power. This suggested that anyone who challenges the status quo is either assassinated or overthrown, but the question that remains unanswered is: how come Perkins himself has not been assassinated or silenced? If what he’s said is true, why wouldn’t an assassination happy cabal kill him to prevent the exposure of their