"All warfare is based on deception. Like so, when effective to attack, we must seem unable. Hold out bait to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. If he is in enhanced strength, evade him. If your opponent is fast to anger, seek to irritate him. ...
"Economic hit men," John Perkins writes," are highly paid professionals who cheat countries all-around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools contain fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They have fun a strategy as old as Empire but one this has taken ...