{"id":25911,"date":"2023-04-11T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T04:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25911"},"modified":"2023-04-11T21:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T04:20:13","slug":"book-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/book-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;Confessions of an Economic Hit Man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1565872483i\/2159.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Confessions of an Economic Hit Man<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1452.John_Perkins\">John Perkins<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Economic hit men,\u201d John Perkins writes, \u201care highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.\u201d<br><br>John Perkins should know\u2014he was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the U.S.\u2014from Indonesia to Panama\u2014to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrative projects were contracted to U. S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks\u2014dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission.<br><br>This\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for American democracy and the world. It is a compelling story that also offers hope and a vision for realizing the American dream of a just and compassionate world that will bring us greater security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins &#8220;Economic hit men,\u201d John Perkins writes, \u201care highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.\u201d John Perkins should know\u2014he was an economic hit&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/book-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25912,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions\/25912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}