I was visiting a friends parents the other night and they gave me a book called The Economic Hitman. It looks quite interesting. It's a true story written by someone who used to go to other countries and bring them to their knees to enable the US to take control of them in varied ways.
I am half way thru this book, "confessions of an economic hit man" by John perkins. THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ANYONE WHO HAS THE LEAST INTEREST IN WORLD AFFAIRS AND WHAT IS HAPPENIN IN THE MIDDLE EAST TODAY.