Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this new edition of the New York Times bestseller brings the story of Economic Hit Men up-to-date and, chillingly, home to the U.S.―but it also gives us hope and the tools to fight back.
 
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.
 
As dark as the story gets, this reformed EHM also provides hope. Perkins offers 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.

John Perkins has written nine books that have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than seventy weeks and translated into over thirty languages.

Introduction: The Third Economic Hit Man Wave and China’s EHM Strategy
Part 1: Harbinger for the Future
1. A Defiant President 
2. A Savior’s Nightmare 
3. Canary in the Cage 
Part II: 1963–1971
4. Dirty Business 
5. An Economic Hit Man Is Born
6. “In for Life” 
7. Indonesia: Lessons for an EHM 
8. Saving a Country from Communism 
9. Selling My Soul 
Part III: 1971–1975
10. My Role as Inquisitor 
11. Civilization on Trial 
12. Opportunity of a Lifetime 
13. Panama’s President and Hero 
14. US Colonialism in the Canal Zone 
15. Conversations with the General 
16. Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History 
17. The Saudi Arabian Money-Laundering Affair 
18. Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden 
Part IV: 1975–1981
19. Panama Canal Negotiations 
20. Iran’s King of Kings 
21. Confessions of a Tortured Man 
22. The Fall of a King 
23. Colombia: Keystone of Latin America 
24. American Republic versus Global Empire 
25. The Deceptive Résumé 
26. Ecuador’s President Battles Big Oil 
27. I Quit 
Part V: 1981–2004
28. Ecuador’s Presidential Death 
29. Panama: Another Presidential Death 
30. My Energy Company and George W. Bush 
31. I Take a Bribe
32. The United States Invades Panama 
33. An EHM Failure in Iraq 
Part VI: 2004–2016
34. Conspiracy: Was I Poisoned? 
35. Istanbul: Death versus Life Economy 
36 Another EHM Banking Scandal 
37. The New Millennium’s New Economic Hit Men
38. The New Millennium’s New Jackals 
Part VII: China’s EHM Strategy
39. China Swings the Balance 
40. China’s Economic Hit Men 
41. Latin America 
42. Asia 
43. Africa 
44. The Middle East 
45. Europe 
46. The United States 
Conclusion: We Each Have a Role to Play to End the EHM Strategy