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Even more relevant now
This book was published in 2004. The housing bubble was 3 years away, and the credit crisis was unfathomable. The first couple of pages predict that the global financial system, based on greed and consumerism, is not sustainable. Like many other self-reflecting, informed individuals, Perkins saw it coming. The book doesn't state anything new or groundbreaking. The vagaries of US foreign policy, its blatant support for tyrants in Central America and the Middle East have been public knowledge for decades. What this book does offer, is a refreshing personal perspective. It's a painfully honest, seemingly heartfelt confession. It recounts Perkins interactions with democratically elected leaders, who were vilified and/or assassinated by the US, when they had outlived their utility. He then puts this into the context of US corporate interest and some of the pieces of the puzzle start to fit together. While this book has excellent substance, I do feel Perkins resorts to a bit of self-aggrandizement. Its unlikely NSA especially profiled him to become an "EHM" and that they would send a liaison deep in the rain forests of Ecuador to recruit a 24 year old Peace Corp volunteer. In some other cases, Perkins alludes to a secret hand helping things fall into place to keep him from singing, like getting the funding for his company, or landing that generous retainership. These claims seems a bit too fantastical to me, but then, he did operate in a strange, deceptive world. Bottom-line: It's a 5-star book. It was compelling enough for me to write my first Amazon book review. Its engaging, honest and most importantly, takes solid aim at the US imperialism which has made the world increasingly polluted and unsafe.Confessions of a mediocre book
Interesting, but a little overly dramatic. I've been able to meet and have a pretty in-depth conversation with a former assistant director of the CIA, it does not appear to me that such a large organization can have such a cohesive and well thought out master plan. That is simply not how large complex organiztions behave.confessions of a boring sychophant
I gave this worthless book to a friend so that he would have something to use as kindling in his fireplace. I cannot comprehend all of the adulatory reviews. Mr. Perkins advances our understanding of the gangsters out to destroy us not one iota. Readers and researchers would be much better served to purchase the books of the last great American patriot Eustace Mullins instead (Secrets of the Federal Reserve & The World Order). Mr. Mullins is a researcher without peer, and lays bare the nature and history of the true gangsters who are out to destroy us, fiscally and otherwise....I didn't get it until the very end.
Poorly written and poorly reasoned, I didn't get it until the very end, when I realized that Mr. Perkins is appalled that the world is run by evil, one might even say sinful, men. Obviously anti-Christian, Mr. Perkins rejects the doctrine of total depravity and chooses to believe that the mostly good, environmentally sensitive population of the earth is oppressed by a complex conspiracy run by a few evil--mostly republican--men.Great Reading of World events Not usually seen in the News.
This book will amaze you of world events that you usually wouldn't hear on the news. This man has risked his life writing his life story to the public. Exposing dark secrets that only an inside source would know about world events.Keyword : economic
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