Abstract
’The Secret History of the American Empire’ is a follow-up to John
Perkins’s past ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” (EHM)3
; that
exposes corrupt governmental and business economic policies and
1 Dr Qadar Bakhsh Baloch, Department of Management Sciences,
Islamia College University, Peshawar, Pakistan,
qbuzdar@yahoo.com
2 Muhammad Imran Ullah Khan, Abasyn University, Peshawar,
Pakistan. chancellor@abasyn.edu.pk
3
. Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who
cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel
money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the
coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families
who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools included
fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and
murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on
new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization.
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practices. Perkins first book, Confessions of an Economic Hit men, is an
insider's account that unveils the exploitation or neo-colonization of
Third World countries by the corporate hegemony of free market
controled by a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States
government. Confessions tells stories of deals Perkins helped to broker
with key oil exporting countries such as Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Iran,
Iraq, Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia. He explains in riveting detail
exactly how the system works—and illuminates the reality behind the
hostility of those the United States now condemns as terrorists. Perkins
has also written on indigenous cultures and shamanism. His books on
these subjects include:
Psycho navigation: Techniques for Travel beyond Time
Shape shifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal
Transformation,
The World Is As You Dream It
The Stress-Free Habit
Having made a splash with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John
Perkins continues exposing corrupt governmental and business economic
policies and practices in The Secret History of the American Empire. The
book makes further claims about the negative impact of global
corporations on the economies and ecologies of poor countries, as well as
offering suggestions for making corporations behave more like good
citizens. It offers more disturbing accounts of the American imperialistic
policies around the world in support of American business. It tells how
the foreign aid is distributed to corrupt Third World leaders who keep a
share and return the rest to U.S. business for major projects, leaving their
nations in debts and absolutely poor. When any leader objected, the CIA
destabilized his government by assassination if necessary. Perkins's
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asserts that the U.S. assassinated Ecuador's reformist president and
connived at genocide in Timor and Sudan.
Though the primary focus of the book is on the United States, however,
he doesn’t spare the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
The fact that the book implicates the highest echelons of government and
corporations, including the IMF, WTO, World Bank, U.S.A., Britain and
the "G8" countries deeply involved in money laundering, tax evasion and
environmental disasters. The Secret History's" Prologue provides an
outstanding summary of the dark side of American generosity as
exemplified by the World Bank's actions. It is the U.S.right of appointing
president and the veto power that opens the door for EHM to channel
funds from the Bank into schemes appearing to serve the poor while
primarily benefiting a few wealthy people.
Dr Qadar Bakhsh Baloch, Muhammad Imran Ullah Khan. (2010) Role Of Corporatocracy & Economic Hit Men In American Empire Building, Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences, Volume-03, Issue-1.
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