Cyberbaguioboy

If you read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, you will not certainly miss this book titled  A Game As Old as Empire, which by the way, devotes one chapter on the Philippines’ Race to the Bottom.

The book is an anthology of stories told by former economic hitmen who were involved in a web of global corruption. It exposes how dirty money ends up in offshore accounts, how countries are drowned in debt to promote dependency on empires, and other revelations about global conspiracy to push Third World countries to a corner while a few political elites in cahoots with international institutions “benefit” from these activities.

A Game As Old as Empire, as the title implies, reveals how powerful countries and the elite have used the oldest tricks in the book to maintain their vast empires using divide and conquer principles, among others.

As freelance writer Adrian Zupp puts it: “This is an important book that should be read by anyone who wants to know how the world is run to the advantage of the wealthy few and the malicious disadvantage of the many poor.”

You can download excerpts here.