The Game as Old as Empire

John Perkins combines his personal experience with new revelations that tell of imperial ambitions lurking behind the glamour and rhetoric of globalization. New confessions and revelations from the world of economic hit men. "Economic hit men" are people who steal trillions of dollars from countries around the world. They "seduce" money from the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development, and other foreign organizations that provide aid to poor countries, into the coffers of giant corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources. Their tools include falsified financial reports, rigged elections, bribes, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as "Empire," but it has taken on new, terrifying dimensions in the current period of globalization.