John Perkins

"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are 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."
John Perkins should know—he was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that are strategically important to the U.S.—from Indonesia to Panama—to accept enormous loans for...

En "¡Atrévete a tocar el jaguar! Transforma el miedo en acción para cambiar tu vida y el mundo" John Perkins nos propone seguir el camino que le indicó un chaman del Amazonas. El jaguar viene a simbolizar el miedo que suele paralizarnos, pero podemos asumirlo, elaborarlo, tender puentes con otras personas para afrontar las adversidades y cambiar los entornos en los que vivimos.Este libro surge de la profunda experiencia de transformación personal...

John Perkins has seen economic meltdowns before--the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of businesses are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. As an economic hit man, he was involved in events once confined to the Third World, that have now sent the United States--and in fact the entire planet--spiraling toward disaster. Here, Perkins shows how we've been hoodwinked by the CEOs who run those few...

The visitor: When a gosling visits Kipper unexpectedly, Kipper experiences the joys and frustrations of parenthood. Pig's present: Kipper wants to give Pig the best birthday gift ever - a pet hamster. The butterfly: After chasing a butterfly around the park, Kipper captures it in a jar. The Bleepers: It's Bleepers from outter space! Pig's cousin: Pig and Kipper take Arnold to play in the park. The little ghost: It's a ghost - and it's afraid of Kipper!...

From the Federal Reserve and bank bailouts, to destruction of the economy through corporate and government ties. Our real wealth, our resources, is being turned into commodities. It explores how interest, debt, and inflation are being manipulated by Wall Street.

More than fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Much has transpired in the half-century since, and progress has been made in the issues that were close to Dr. King's heart. Thankfully, the burning crosses, biting police dogs, and angry mobs of that day are long gone. But in their place, passivity has emerged. A passivity that must be addressed.

That's the aim of Letters to a Birmingham

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