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For instance, Perkins apparently believes that Africa was a fine and dandy place before the evil Europeans showed up. Lastly, he applaudes the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson and the NY State Comptroller for their shakedown of Texaco for $176 million. He exposes its destructive nature in all of its facets: socially, culturally, economically, and spiritually.My problem is that some of his observations are just ridiculous and ignorant but are the typical claptrap you'd get from Soros's MoveOn.org crowd (which Perkins champions in the book even though they cravenly support war in the Middle East, as long as it's Obama's war) and many nonthinking kneejerk leftists. The big idea of curtailing the American Empire (which does not help the majority of Third World people its globalist champions claims it benefits) is right on. I think Mr. While not without its problems too, a far better book on the subject of globalization is Naomi Klein's "No Logo". While I agree that it is the Tibetan peoples' right to preserve their heritage,culture, and preference to being ruled by petty monks rather than Communist functionaires in Beijing, this is a glaring omission as well as the fact that no mention is made that Tibetans have collaborated with the CIA. Despots, slavery, and brutality have always been the name of the game.Also, he glorifies the Dalai Lama while ignoring the negative aspects of the Tibetan feudalist theocracy.
Apparently, some Texaco employees had made "racist comments". If it wasn't for them Africa might be some sort of utopia today. Perkins' heart is in the right place. What did Texaco do to deserve such a hefty loss. Now the despots in Africa simply ape those evil Europeans. News for Perkins, not much has changed in Africa for thousands of years. So Perkins can clearly see when the "corporatocracy" exploits, but no so when employed by political hacks and careerist race baiters.Overall, it's fairly weak. Perkins also deserves credit for exposing the subsidized tool of corporate exploitation that the Peace Corps really is and the intrinsic condescending arrogance of it all.
John Perkins does a fabulous job of providing details to his first book "Confessions of an economic hit man". Even if you have not read his first book this is a great read by itself. It surely gives everyone an inside view of how things possibly work(if you are a skeptic)in the larger context of understanding global deals amongst nations. This should be a mandatory read and discussion for every student taking business, economics, and government.
Thought-provoking sequel to Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Don't read if you want to maintain your ideas of good/bad, black/white in today's world.
The tales told in this book may be just too incredible to be true, or maybe it is just that some of the suporting facts are true and stories were woven around them. Either way it reads like pulp fiction and comes across as not terribly believable. But if this sort of thing interets you then buy the book below to go with your copy of "American Empire":"Legacy Of Ashes" by Tim Weiner ISBN 978-0-385-51445-3As it turns out there may be plenty of truth to "American Empire" after all.A fun read and an eye opener.
This follow-up to Confessions of Economic Hit Man is short on detail and retreads most of the territory of the first book. Found myself skimming through this because I heard or read it all before, especially with the dirth of complementary material that has come out on EHM stuff since the first book. Like the idea, but felt a bit taken for having purchased an epilogue described as a book.
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