A Game As Old As Empire exposes many more shocking secrets of a worldwide
web of control, corruption, and plunder.
It tells how multinational corporations, governments,
powerful individuals, banks, other financial institutions, and quasi-governmental agencies
operate to enrich small elite and corporate coffers while often impoverishing masses of
people and creating debt and dependency that economically enslave countries for
generations.
This new book provides the first full inside look at
how this dark and dirty world functions.
It shows that the economic hit man game and the web of
global corruption are far more widespread, pervasive, and destructive than Perkins
described in Confessions. And it reveals the deep and dark connections between this
economic hit man game and the domination of global empire. Each chapter focuses on a
particular case, detailing the methods used to deceive, steal, corrupt, and enforce
compliance. These methods range from the clearly sinister (such as bribery, fraud,
looting, money laundering, threats, and even the use of jackals and other means of
violence) to the seemingly altruistic (such as many types of debt relief, development
assistance, and foreign aid) that in fact are highly exploitative and onerous.
STEVEN HIATT has worked as an editor and writer for several Bay Area
companies, including Apple Computer, Netscape, Progressive Asset Management, and Stanford
Research Institute. He is the editor (with Mike Davis) of Fire in the Hearth: The Radical
Politics of Place in America (Verso), and is president of Editcetera, a cooperative of
publishing professionals. He and his wife live in San Francisco, California.
310 pages, Hardcover