FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: "Hit Man" Author Tells Truth About How Greed Imploded Wall Street in New Book

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: November 16, 2009 1:03:04 PM CST
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
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> A new book contains a useful neologism: <corporatocracy>. Read on.
> 
> Bob
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>> From: BuzzFlash <alerts [at] buzzflash.com>
>> Date: November 16, 2009 11:38:09 AM CST
>> 
>> Subject: "Hit Man" Author Tells Truth About How Greed Imploded Wall Street 
>> in New Book
>> Reply-To: alerts [at] buzzflash.com
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>> 
>>  
>> http://www.buzzflash.com/store
>> "If there is only one book you read in the next month to understand on a 
>> very deep level what has happened to our nation and our financial market, 
>> you must read this one."
>>  
>> CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO
>> 
>> Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets 
>> Imploded--and What We Need to Do to Remake Them (Hardcover). Released in 
>> November, 2009. From the Author of "Confessions of An Economic Hit Man."
>> By John Perkins
>> BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)
>> "If there is only one book you read in the next month to understand on a 
>> very deep level what has happened to our nation and our financial market, 
>> you must read this one. 
>> 
>> Perkins, author of the previous "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" has 
>> created a gripping, astonishing and purposeful book. If you only read the 
>> chapter on "Modern Robber Barons" the book will well worth the investment. 
>> Are you at all curious about the 355 billionaires in the United states? You 
>> should be. 
>> 
>> This book is not only a powerful and stunning story, but it also offers 
>> great hope and actionable ideas for change in the future. Perkins invokes 
>> all citizens to honor their passions, create a sustainable future, stop the 
>> corporatocracy and stop the enslavement of debt."
>> 
>> "John Perkins has been in and out of the world of high finance and low 
>> ethics, and in Hoodwinked he not only illuminates that world with dramatic 
>> stories and keen insights, but suggests what we might do to create a better 
>> society." 
>> 
>> ?Howard Zinn, bestselling author of A People's History of the United States
>> 
>> "Another thriller from the master storyteller with an insider view. Perkins 
>> takes us once again into the dark netherworld of corrupt bankers and 
>> economic hit men who lure the unsuspecting into financial ruin and reveals 
>> the connection between the folks who for decades enriched themselves at the 
>> expense of the world's poor and those who now reap billions at the expense 
>> of America. Same people, same scams."
>> 
>> ?David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy and The Great Turning, and 
>> board chair of YES! magazine
>> 
>> "John Perkins' engaging narrative draws us into a brilliant analysis of 
>> capitalism's shadow side, and points us to a hopeful path to a better 
>> future. Hoodwinked is a must-read for anyone who cares about our economic 
>> welfare, social justice, and our collective well-being."
>> 
>> ?DANIEL GOLEMAN, bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Ecological 
>> Intelligence 
>> 
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>> Read The Full Review >>>
>> http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/1889
>> Other Reviews
>> Book Description from the Publisher:
>> 
>> John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The 
>> subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of 
>> unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are 
>> all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as an 
>> economic hit man, he was on the front lines both as an observer and a 
>> perpetrator of events, once confined only to the third world, that have now 
>> sent the United States?and in fact the entire planet?spiraling toward 
>> disaster. 
>> 
>> Here, Perkins pulls back the curtain on the real cause of the current global 
>> financial meltdown. He shows how we've been hoodwinked by the CEOs who run 
>> the corporatocracy?those few corporations that control the vast amounts of 
>> capital, land, and resources around the globe?and the politicians they 
>> manipulate. These corporate fat cats, Perkins explains, have sold us all on 
>> what he calls predatory capitalism, a misguided form of geopolitics and 
>> capitalism that encourages a widespread exploitation of the many to benefit 
>> a small number of the already very wealthy. Their arrogance, gluttony, and 
>> mismanagement have brought us to this perilous edge. The solution is not a 
>> "return to normal."
>> 
>> But there is a way out. As Perkins makes clear, we can create a healthy 
>> economy that will encourage businesses to act responsibly, not only in the 
>> interests of their shareholders and corporate partners (and the lobbyists 
>> they have in their pockets), but in the interests of their employees, their 
>> customers, the environment, and society at large.
>> 
>> We can create a society that fosters a just, sustainable, and safe world for 
>> us and our children. Each one of us makes these choices every day, in ways 
>> that are clearly spelled out in this book. 
>> 
>> "We hold the power," he says, "if only we recognize it." Hoodwinked is a 
>> powerful polemic that shows not only how we arrived at this precarious point 
>> in our history but also what we must do to stop the global tailspin.
>> Learn More >>>
>> http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/1889
>> 
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