A Reflection on “ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

How can a president be overthrown just for increasing minimum wages?

Isn’t it a just action a president can possibly take to favour his people?

But even then,  Manuel Zelaya was overthrown for doing just the same.

Does a man, who fights for the maritime trade route that legally belongs to its country ,

deserve to die?

Isn’t it a duty of a president to protect the assets of its country?

But even then, Omer Torroji was assassinated in a well orchestrated plane crash.

Doesn't a man , who rightfully accused the group of missionaries for colluding

with oil companies and manipulating the innocent minds of indigenous people, deserve to

live ?

Isn’t  it heroic to speak against the manipulation of indigenous communities at the hand

powerful exploiters?

But even then Jaime Roldos was killed.

Isn’t is necessary to overthrow the foreign oil companies that exploit your land and turn the country’s workforce into modern army of slaves?

Doesn't it seem a logical step to better the economy of your country?

But even then, Rafael Correa was forced to auction rainforest to save his presidency.

My purpose is not to tell my reader about already known, yet not really celebrated, facts.

My purpose of writing this review to confess that before reading John Perkins book

I did not know anything about these figures. I did not even aware about the extent

of difficulties  people of developing countries are facing. Perhaps the greatest credit

goes to global media that only talks about those issue which present certain chosen

countries and related figures in favourable light and rest of the stuff is either ignored

altogether or is presented by giving it least possible importance.

I used to be ignorant, or so I am feeling right now about my previous way of gathering

facts and figures about socio-political scenarios. Did I ever honestly try to understand the

true causes of economic imbalance? Sometimes I did but my means were not reliable

enough.Sometime an article shared by some friend on social website used to lead me

to some newspaper and I managed to give a quick reading to some news dealing with

economic chaos devouring old perpetual victim of poverty. Such brief moments spent in

careless reading of bitter facts were enough to make me realize that I am  little more

politically aware now. While this was not the case , that I came to know after getting

hold of John Perkins’ book.

I know history, especially the one that spans the latter half of 21st century, cannot be

described in terms of Black and white , there are various grey areas that need to be

investigated to separate right from wrong and to explain the wrong that committed to

protect a larger Right. John Perkins has very well established the point ,at least for me,

that economy is the new faith of the world and that can very well be used to corrupt

already faithless souls. The proprietors of global empire work under the supervision

of some Lord Voladmort  (the one who must not be named) and keep looking for loopholes

in struggling countries’ economies and use these loopholes to enter the region in sinister

yet somehow justified way. And even if they do not be able to justify them , they do not

often find anyone to ask for justification. Who can ever stand against the surge of global

empires? The ones who tried, they were either killed of or faced utter defamation.

But as a lay reader, I believe, John Perkins’s purpose was not just to unveil the concept

of EHM and the inevitabilities faced by the leaders of struggling countries due to internal

corruption coupled with the deadly intrusion of jackals. He has tried to target the

conscience of common being. This global greed that lurks about fiendishly and keep looking

for easily  corruptible soul to enhance its power is somehow the working of each of us

who are prone to fall for the dream of artificial easy life away from the lap of nature and

much under the close scrutiny of corporate world. The moment we stop growing our own

vegetables and start looking for a chain of super stores where we could find , excessively

expensive, fresh ones stored in air conditioned environment , we become a direct and

rather subtle victim  of Global Empire.

We can probably fight the armies of economic hit-men by taking lesson from the working

of true mother nature that does not  tolerate the rape of its resources and shows its anger

in the form of global warming, and by realizing at individual and collective level that lust

for accumulating money is used to establish modern slave plantations where the hired

ones are often selling their souls along with physical labour. Establish the connection with

the very land you have come from and you will, one day,  return to and do not let the fear

of death weaken this bonding.