Engdahl & Perkins: The nature of economic tyranny

Gods of Money by William Engdahl. If you want to understand who has power in the world today, and how it got that way, this book is a must-read. It is clear, concise, comprehensive, and every detail is meticulously documented with reliable references. I’ve been studying this kind of material for years, and from this book I learned quite a few things I had never come across before.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. Perkins explains, from his own experience, how the US government works hand-in-hand with the IMF and World Bank to force third-world countries into debt slavery, and to submit to environmental and economic exploitation. [Since the engineered economic collapse of 2008, the IMF has now crossed the Rubicon – aiming its destructive guns at the EU, beginning with Ireland, Greece, and Spain. –rkm]