Cinema Libre is developing a feature version of John Perkins’ “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” his behind-the-scenes memoir about the global banking structure and Third World Development. Los Angeles-based Cinema Libre, which specializes in producing and distributing social issue films such as “Uncovered: The War on Iraq,” plans to begin production on “Confessions” in mid-2011. Cinema Libre chairman Phillipe Diaz will produce. He’s announced that the company’s secured $25 million in European financing for “Confessions” and plans to disclose the writer and director shortly.
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Jacket
The Inside Story of How America Turned From a Respected Republic into a Feared Empire.
“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 infrastructure development, and to make sure that the lucrativeprojects were contracted to U. S. corporations. Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank and other U.S.-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks—dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission.
This extraordinary real-life tale exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for American democracy and the world.
Critics say:
“This riveting look at a world of intrigue reads like a spy novel…. Highly recommended…”
—Library Journal
“Mr. Perkins invests much of the story with earnest, pulpy touches. He writes of himself drinking beers and listening to Jimmy Buffett under magenta skies with beautiful women, meeting with disfigured dissidents in shantytowns outside of Tehran and absorbing the whispered warnings about the United States’ imperial designs from Latin American leaders…for now, Mr. Perkins’s message of conspiracy carries the perfect pitch for many readers — no matter how fantastic his conclusions may be.”
– Landon Thomas Jr. for The New York Times
You can read an excerpt here:
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