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’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. Secret History of American Empire Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.3. No.1 Dar Qadar Baloch & Imran Ullah 129 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 Secret History of American Empire Abasyn Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.3. No.1 Dar Qadar Baloch & Imran Ullah 130 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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