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The Entrepreneur NewsOnline Book Club: Book of the Month for November, 2011

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

By John Perkins

Paperback: 303 pages; Publisher: Plume; First Thus edition (December 27, 2005); Language: English; ISBN-10: 0452287081

"...Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes..."

"...Perkins' story illuminates a larger picture in a way that more scholarly treatises cannot match. In this book...Perkins really does tell it like it is. This is the book I have been waiting for, the book that fills in the blanks left behind by the writers of global theories, the book that tells us how it really happens...(how)...the United States engineered ousters of democratically-elected leaders who did not do the bidding of our corporations..(and)...the actual steps that led to these actions...."

INAUGURAL SPEECH BY H.E. PAUL BIYA, October 4, 2011

INAUGURAL SPEECH BY H.E. PAUL BIYA, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON ON THE OCCASION OF THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONY BEFORE THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

The President of the National Assembly, The President of the Supreme Court, Honourable Members of Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen, My Dear Compatriots,

Allow me, first of all, to thank the President of the National Assembly for bidding me welcome and for his words of encouragement at the beginning of this new term of office.

In this Temple of democracy, I also wish to once again thank all Cameroonians for having renewed their trust in me. It goes without saying that such trust will be an invaluable moral support to me in the discharge of the heavy responsibilities awaiting me in the coming years.

The oath I have just taken before you, that is “before the Cameroonian people” in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 of our Constitution, is, in my opinion, highly symbolic. It is an expression of absolute loyalty to the institutions of the Republic and a personal commitment to perform the duties of Head of State as set forth in our Constitution.

As in the past, I therefore personally and solemnly undertake to discharge these important responsibilities for the good of the Cameroonian people.