Wake Up America
If there was one book that you must read this year make sure it is Confessions of an Economic Hitman. I recently “read” this book on CD. This was a great listen! Kept me captivated from beginning to end. It basically went through the life of a guy who is hired by a private company which works really close to the government such as Bechtel and Halliburton.
This guy is sent out as an economist to third world countries to promote the modernization of their society. He would run estimates which favorably show how bringing modern technology will help a country prosper. The countries sign on and only a few get rich while the rest of the country is worse off than before. These countries end up being in debt to the US for billions and billions of dollars. So instead of paying the US back they return the favor in the form of giving US access to oil or other natural resources and sometimes UN votes. If a country refuses the deals from the US, they send what Perkins call “Jackals” in to do some convincing. If that doesn’t work, the US uses the military to pursuade them. That’s basically what happened in Iraq.
Conspiracy or not, this book opened my eyes on the impact of our selfish ways are leading to the eventually downfall of our empire. It is no wonder why so many people outside the US hates us so much. We should really be ashamed for our consuming ways and the fact that we ignore other countries who are suffering from a level of poverty that nobody here can imagine. Instead we hide behind the false pretenses of helping a country modernize but in reality is looking to take advantage of their natural resources. Our government starts wars now for the sake of terrorism and to free the people from terrorists. But in reality they have a different agenda. In exchange for the lives of soldiers, we are relentlessly trying to gain control of a country and use up its natural resources.
I’m typically neutral when it comes to politics but this book has opened up my eyes. It is no wonder why the author had mentioned that writing and publishing this book was a dangerous thing. He basically revealed what most conspiracy theorists could only imagine.
