Apology of an Economic Hit Man

Asia Pacific Premiere

John Perkins was a prominent member of the top-secret team of “economic hit men”, who used fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, military coups and murder to create the global American empire after World War II. He is a self-confessed economic hitman, reformed and repentant. In the 70’s, he was an economist employed to structure huge international loans to Third World countries like Indonesia, Panama and Saudi Arabia, loans for massive construction projects that would eventually funnel money back to US contractors, enriching the ruling elite at the cost of national self-sufficiency, independence and endemic poverty for the vast majority of the local population. The US used the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to further its own agenda. Perkins further reveals that it is in economics that the real cloak-and-dagger stuff happens.

Award-winning journalist and filmmaker Stelios Kouloglou fashions Perkins’ controversial best-seller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, The Secret History of the American Empire, into a provocative and fascinating documentary, complete with smoky backroom liaisons, corruption, blackmail and murder. Based on rare propaganda material, film-noir style reconstructed sequences and exclusive filmed confessions, this fascinating documentary sheds light on the unknown mechanisms used by the rulers of the modern world, the roots of Islamic terrorism, and the reason why most of the world’s population lives in poverty. The definitive answer to former President Bush’s question, "Why do they hate us?”…