John Perkins
Confessioni di Un Killer Economico

THE REVIEW

You are a government agent, handsomely paid, with a good knowledge of foreign languages and a couple of degrees in economics. Your job, after a thorough "initiation" (read: brainwashing), will consist of this: traveling the world and help Uncle Sam in corrupting political leaders, selling out economies, and establishing under the banner of globalization ancient cultures that will disappear in a few years in the face of the prevailing "American way of life". Imagine that for years women, drugs, money, and power will silence your conscience until the famous "one fine day" when you wake up and realize you have collaborated in the worst conspiracy known to human history, and after the unexpected (and very painful) awakening, the first thing that comes to mind is to write an autobiography. 

That's how "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" is born, a book that caused me a worrying month-long insomnia. Omar Torrijos, Jamie Roldos, Mossadegh, Saddam, the oil crisis of '74 and the subsequent steel pact between the USA and the Arab emirates, ending with the collapse of the (three!) towers at Ground Zero and the last, well-known peace mission in Iraq and Afghanistan, all described in first person in minute detail by a true protagonist of these events, who explains exactly what the word "neocolonialism" means: murder, torture, money, whores, disappearances, pollution, speculation, and above all, tons, I say tons, of lies, about how hundreds of agents worldwide work unbeknownst to everyone to subjugate entire economies under US power, no matter who, no matter what. I would particularly mention a moment in the book where the author recounts step by step the fall of Panama and its hero, Omar Torrijos, also supported by the famous writer Greene, knowing both characters personally and transcribing important documents, interviews, revelations.

John Perkins is now a fervent pacifist/environmentalist, a staunch supporter of the green economy, clean energy, and a fierce enemy of everything he worked for and profited from greedily for decades, writing increasingly unsettling investigative books (and increasingly less known) about conspiracies, multinationals, the economy, and personally dealing with the safeguarding of ethnicities and cultures at risk of extinction. To heck with those who believe that things cannot change for the better, because experience keeps telling us that there is never an end to the worst.