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Trump and the Ecomomic Hit Man Presidency
08-09-2026
Since World War II, US presidents of both parties have relied on an economic hit man strategy.
They have used the four pillars of that strategy (fear, debt, anxiety over insufficiency, and divide and conquer) to control other nations and enrich a growing oligarchy.
In the groundbreaking Confessions of an Economic Hit Man trilogy, John Perkins exposed the complex, expansive, and clandestine global network that serves the interests of powerful corporate, financial, and political entities. In The Art of the Steal, he reveals its most dangerous evolution.
Donald Trump represents a historic shift. He is the first US president to turn the economic hit man strategy into a personal brand and governing style. He has ascended the four pillars, brought the playbook home, and reversed the march toward the American ideal of liberty, equality, justice, democracy, opportunity, and an individualism that supports family and community. At the same time, he has forced what was hidden into the open.
This book explains
• how this happened,
• why it matters, and
• what each of us can do to turn things around.
Both warning and blueprint, it offers a pathway to renewing the American ideal—and using it to model a new global ideal.
Since World War II, US presidents of both parties have used economic hit man strategies - fear, debt, anxiety over insufficiency, and divide and conquer tactics - to amass resources, control other nations, and enrich a growing oligarchy. In The Art of the Steal, John Perkins reveals its most dangerous evolution.
Donald Trump is the first US president to turn economic hit man strategies into a personal brand and governing style. He brought the playbook home and reversed America's march toward liberty, equality, justice, and democracy, forcing what was hidden into the open.
Both warning and blueprint, this book shows how it happened, why it matters, and what each of us can do to renew the American Ideal and shape a new global one.
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24-05-2022
How the “First State” has enabled international crime, sheltered tax dodgers, and diverted hard-earned dollars from the rest of us
The legal home to over a million companies, Delaware has more registered businesses than residents. Why do virtually all of the biggest corporations in the United States register there? Why do so many small companies choose to set up in Delaware rather than their home states? Why do wealthy individuals form multiple layers of private companies in the state? This book reveals how a systematic enterprise lies behind the business-friendly corporate veneer, one that has kept the state afloat financially by diverting public funds away from some of the poorest people in the United States and supporting dictators and criminals across the world.
Hal Weitzman shows how the de facto capital of corporate America has provided safe haven to money launderers, kleptocratic foreign rulers, and human traffickers, and facilitated tax dodging and money laundering by multinational companies and international gangsters. Revenues from Delaware's business-formation industry, known as the Franchise, account for two-fifths of the state’s budget and have helped to keep the tax burden on its residents among the lowest in the United States. Delaware derives enormous political clout from the Franchise, effectively writing the corporate code for the entire country―and because of its outsized influence on corporate America, the second smallest state in the United States also writes the rules for much of the world.
What's the Matter with Delaware? shows how, in Joe Biden’s home state, the corporate laws get written behind closed doors, enabling the rich and powerful to do business in the shadows.