My thoughts on John Perkins' book: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; Are politicians to blame for all problems in democracies?; Thoughts about authoritarianism dangers in socialism
Last updated on 3rd Oct. 2019 Warning: This is a sensitive and looooong post. Readers who don't like reading such sensitive stuff may please skip reading the rest of this post. In the past few days, I have been reading, in fits & bursts, the book: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. I downloaded a PDF version of it from here: https://archive.org/details/ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman_257/ . Given below are some thoughts of mine on the book, and also about some related matters. Parts of this post are somewhat disjointed. Readers will have to please bear with that. I read/browsed up to PDF page 150 (book page 129). The book PDF runs into 272 (PDF) pages. I think what the book covers is old stuff but still interesting to read. Perkins quits his EHM (Economic Hit Man) work in 1981 as per the Table of Contents. The last parts of the book do cover later years (the book seems to have been published in 2004) but Perkins, I guess, would be giving an outsider...