Readable, revealing autobiography showing the full range of direct and indirect mechanisms the USA uses to control its global neo-mercantile empire.
It shows the grooming and maneuvering of a young man into a position of power at Chas T. Main, one of many infamous international engineering and consulting firms called in to run "modernization projects" in various emerging markets countries. These projects would become part of a sophisticated, creative and tremendously effective system of US neo-colonial political control.
This system works through several steps. First, large US banks lend money to a developing country for some major project (electrification, water systems, road infrastructure, whatever). Major US engineering and infrastructure firms bid on (and usually win) these projects. Payments are offered to local leaders in the country--in sums so huge that it becomes fairly easy to solidify a highly compliant client oligarchy[1] in that country who will readily obey the US government when and if it needs them too.
The most astounding part of this system is this: all of the money ends up washing right back into the US anyway! The loans are largely repatriated back to the US in the form of revenues to the engineering and infrastructure firms. US banks get interest payments on the loans, and they can make still more money by offering this country access to global sovereign debt markets down the road. Even the money used to cultivate a local client oligarchy almost always ends up back here, usually in the form of investments, dollar bank deposits or Miami real estate.
The developing country and its people are left with the debt--which no one expects to be paid back. This debt is yet another mechanism of control, as the country falls into a sort of debt servitude to US banks or to various international lending organizations. And God forbid if it falls behind in payments: this lets the neo-colonial empire exert still more political and economic control (usually via allegedly "impartial" surpranational finance organizations like the IMF and the World Bank), by which the system extracts still more money.
Of course the US has intelligence personnel placed strategically in many of these participating organizations (the author himself was one such example), but yet it can technically claim it has no direct involvement in the system. The game is just gross on every level, but you have to respect the brilliance of it.
Now, if leaders in any of these economically colonized countries happens to see through this "game" and tries to assert any national sovereignty against it, the US simply removes them from power. And the US has improved quite a bit at this over time. You can see the CIA's a-bit-too-blatant removal of Guatemala's president Jacobo Árbenz in the 1950s at the behest of the United Fruit Company (we used the old trick of calling him a "communist") evolve into more direct methods: see for example the "accidental" deaths of the presidents of both Ecuador or Panama, who died "suddenly" within weeks of each other in 1981. Both had given just a little too much pushback against mechanisms of US neo-colonialism. Please note that these are a bare few examples of a very, very long list of US-engineered regime changes all over the world.
Finally, it's is worth mentioning that these various systems and techniques of modern neo-colonialism, as disgusting as they are, worked far better decades ago when the USA was far more globally dominant--not the decaying, collapsing Fourth Turning has-been it is today. We can observe many examples of the US empire's nakedness in just the past few years, starting with a disastrously failed proxy war in Ukraine, our abject inability to control shipping lanes in the Red Sea, and the recent rapid collapse of several western-aligned client oligarchies in Africa[2].
In the face of all this, it is telling, and disturbing, to see the central passivity of the author. He knows he's an instrument of this system and is therefore an instrument of suffering and evil. But he keeps acting as that instrument because the deal is too good for him. He gets paid a lot, he globe-trots around the world, and he protects himself psychologically by defense mechanism: after learning of some outrage by his company and/or government he "falls into a depression" for days, or as he writes after some other outrageous malfeasance, "I collapsed into a chair, overcome with emotion" and so on. The author confesses, repeatedly how "it forced me to take a hard look at the consequences of the things I had done" but yet he continues, for years, to work as an instrument of the system.
We'd all like to think that we'd be the ones who would "do something," that we would never participate in such a system and that we would do anything we could, up to and including sacrificing our jobs, our careers, even our lives, to stop it. Nope.
Admittedly, this author of course ultimately wrote this book, an act of bravery, albeit long, long after the fact. But nothing stopped him from doing what he did while he was in there doing it. This is the norm, and as much as I wish it weren't true, it would likely be the norm for any of us if we were in his shoes.
Footnotes:
[1] For more on the "client oligarchy" system of neo-mercantile control, see my review of and notes on Michael Hudson's excellent book J is for Junk Economics, particularly notes 47 and 83.
[2] For those keeping track: Gabon, Guinea, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan, Guinea, Chad, Mali, and likely more coming.
[As always, a friendly warning: don't bother to read any further. The rest of this post contains just my notes and thoughts on the text--they are here to help me better remember and integrate the ideas in the book. Life is short and this post is already too long! Go and do something else more valuable.]
Notes:
Preface:
ixff: The author describes here how he was lured into a world where his job was "to encourage world leaders to become part of a vast network that promotes U.S. commercial interests. In the end, those leaders become ensnared in a web of debt that ensures their loyalty. We can draw on them whenever we desire--to satisfy our political, economic, or military needs." Essentially this is the creation of a client oligarchy in countries all around the world, per the forceful description of economist Michael Hudson (see footnote [1] above).
Prologue:
xviiff: A simple description of the EHM (economic hit man) method here, using Ecuador as the backdrop: loans are made to a developing country for some major infrastructure project, the loans are borrowed from American banks, once these funds are paid to the developing country's government, they are paid right back to American engineering and construction companies, thus the money never actually leaves the United States (!) and yet the country taking the loans is still required to pay it all back plus interest. If the scheme works perfectly the debtor is forced to default on its payments at some point, after which the United States can extract still more obligations or resources.
xxi: If the scheme of "legitimate business" (in the form of infrastructure work or energy projects or oil exploration, all done by major global corporations) doesn't work, then "jackals" come into overthrow heads of state or have them die in "accidents." And if the jackals fail then US military will be sent in.
Chapter 1: An Economic Hit Man Is Born
3ff: The author's background and upbringing in New Hampshire; his parents were social climbing teachers at a prep school. He joins the NSA after his father-in-law, who worked in the navy, connected him with a friend in the NSA; he does this in order to escape the draft for Vietnam. His interviews with the NSA indicate that he was "seducible" (this is by the author's admission himself); he then discovers the Peace Corps, and his NSA contact encourages him to join. "We'll need good agents there."
9ff: The Peace Corps, probably via the NSA, sends him to Ecuador in September 1968. He's approached by a representative of the consulting firm Chas T. Main, and joins the company in 1971.
Chapter 2: "In for Life"
12ff: "...my first months there [at Chas T. Main] I could not figure out what we did." He is assigned to do research on Kuwait; he's approached by a female handler; she instructs him that his job will be "to justify huge international loans that would funnel money back to [Chas. T.] Main and other US companies... [and] would work to bankrupt the countries that received those loans... so they would present easy targets when we needed favors, including military bases, UN votes, or access to oil and other natural resources."
17ff: History of how US and Britain managed Iran in the 1950s, using CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt (Theodore's grandson!), who engineered street protests and regime change there, and then put the Shah of Iran in power. "Roosevelt's gambit reshaped Middle Eastern history even as it rendered obsolete all the old strategies for empire building." Note that the modern strategy is to use international organizations like the World Bank and the IMF via intelligence agencies and EHMs who would be hired by international corporations; thus the EHMs would not actually be paid by, or work for, the government; this way their work would never be attached to government policy and they'd never be subject to congressional oversight or public scrutiny. [Worth noting here the striking parallels with Sheldon Wolin's book Democracy, Inc., describing this "inverted totalitarianism" process as performed inside US borders. The US in both cases skillfully uses corporations to prosecute its policies. Very striking.]
Chapter 3: Indonesia: Lessons for an EHM
20ff: Brief Indonesian history lesson, with Sukarno overthrown in 1965, giving rise to general Suharto in the late 1960s; oil discovered there; the US decision to bring Suharto "into the fold."
Chapter 4: Saving a Country from Communism
23ff: The author goes to Jakarta, discovers it's basically a shithole, despite his previous romantic impressions of the country.
Chapter 5: Selling My Soul
28ff: The author has a conflict with a greybeard at his firm who wants to put out realistic estimates for electric "load demand growth" instead of the massively inflated electronic load demand growth estimates that the firm needs to justify the project.
Chapter 6: My Role as Inquisitor
37ff: He travels around Indonesia meeting with government officials, he's mostly treated with resentment.
Chapter 7: Civilization on Trial
42ff: He has interactions with Indonesian locals talking about the US using the World Bank and USAID to extract resources from countries; also on the conflict between Christians and Muslims, essentially encourageg by US policy.
Chapter 8: Jesus, Seen Differently
47ff: The author contemplates the idea of a worldwide holy war. He compares today's US neocolonial/neo-mercantile system to the colonial mercantile era. He splits up with his wife.
Chapter 9: Opportunity of a Lifetime
52ff: The author gets promoted thanks in part to his fantastical 17-20% load growth forecasts, the firm fires the greybeard guy with his insufficiently aggressive 8% estimates. [We see here also an excellent example here of how a system promotes the obedient and loyal, not the competent and accurate. It's worth thinking through what happens to an institution (or a country) that does this over the long term: you get a Peter Principle phenomenon throughout the entire entity where everybody is incompetent at their job!] "We're giving you the opportunity of a lifetime..."
Chapter 10: Panama's President and Hero
58ff: On the Panama Canal project which began in 1881 under France, then taken over by the USA under Theodore Roosevelt; in 1903 Roosevelt fomented an independence movement in Panama and installed a new government, basically taking the territory away from Colombia and giving Washington indirect control over Panama and total control over the American zone on both sides of the canal. Panama was ruled by a client oligarchy.
59ff: Omar Torrijos becomes head of state after a coup overthrows Arnulfo Arias. The author is sent to Panama to help create a similar control mechanism that the US has successfully used elsewhere; foreshadowing of bad things happening to Torrijos.
Chapter 11: Pirates in the Canal Zone
63ff: Brief history of the Panama Canal zone which is US territory, exempt from all Panamanian laws and taxes. If you're curious this chapter will definitely send you down a rabbit hole reading up on the Canal Zone and related details!
Chapter 12: Soldiers and Prostitutes
67ff: The author gets taken to a bar in the Canal zone with strippers from other Central American countries.
Chapter 13: Conversations with the General
71ff: The author is invited to meet with Omar Torrijos; they discuss Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala, who was quickly deposed by the United States when he went up against the United Fruit Company. Torrijos sounds like a 1970s-era Nayib Bukele. "Give me what's best for my people, and I'll give you all the work you want."
Chapter 14: Entering a New and Sinister Period in Economic History
79: "I see now that Robert McNamara's greatest and most sinister contribution to history was to jockey the World Bank into becoming an agent of global empire on a scale never before witnessed."
Chapter 15: The Saudi Arabian Money-Laundering Affair
82ff: History of the OPEC production cuts that led to the oil crisis in the early 70s, and the US response to intertwine itself with the Saudi economy and fund the infusion of hundreds of millions of dollars for engineering and construction, refineries, electrification projects, shopping malls, hospitals, desalinization plants and other types of modernization projects (including building all the housing for the imported migrant laborers from other countries who would do the work). "Saudi Arabia was a planner's dream come true... an underdeveloped country with virtually unlimited financial resources and a desire to enter the modern age in a big way, very quickly."
90: The goal of this program was to persuade Saudi Arabia to always step in and fill a gap in oil supplies, or at least in the hopes that the wide knowledge that they would do so would discourage other countries from pursuing any future oil embargo.
Chapter 16: Pimping, and Financing Osama bin Laden
93ff: The author describes how he had been assigned to persuade one of the royal family members on the modernization deal with the United States; he ended up pimping out a beautiful blonde to him, the wife mother commercial airline pilot who was open to the idea.
96ff: On the US bankrolling Osama bin Laden against the Soviets through the House of Saud; connections between the Bush family and the house of Saud, etc. [Man, the more you read about this stuff and how far it goes back and how incestuous it all is, and how all the propaganda always presumes you can't remember the prior incestuousness (say for example between the Bush family, the Saudis and bin Laden)... it is just gross, gross, gross on every level.]
Chapter 17: Panama Canal Negotiations and Graham Greene
101ff: The author now has a staff of 20 (it's now 1977), the Saudi Arabia "deal" made his career, he becomes the youngest partner in Chas T. Main's 100-year history.
102ff: He borrows economic modeling ideas from [Andrei] Markov, an early 1900s-era Russian mathematician; Panama's Torrijos enters negotiations with Jimmy Carter to renegotiate the canal treaty and get ownership of it; the concern here is that the CIA will find a way to undermine the treaty, President Carter and Panama all at once.
105ff: The author sees Graham Greene in his hotel; Greene recalls the pro-Panama editorial that the author wrote in the Boston Globe calling for an end to colonialism there.
107: The canal treaty passes in the US Senate by a single vote; Graham Greene's book Getting to Know the General comes out many years later.
Chapter 18: Iran's King of Kings
108ff: On Iran and how the US propagandized the Shah as a "modernizer" and a symbol of progress; the author meets a man who describes the Shah as a puppet of the USA. "A true Persian would never permit such a thing."
Chapter 19: Confessions of a Tortured Man
113ff: 1977: the author meets with a former advisor to the Shah who was tortured and disfigured by SAVAK, the secret police of Iran; the Shah as the US's only real ally in the Middle East. They ask the author to pull Chas T. Main out of Iran, saying it would get paid anyway, that the Shah's government will soon collapse.
Chapter 20: The Fall of a King
117ff: His friend from Middlebury High School, Farhad, runs into him in Tehran and gets him out of the country. Khomeini takes over; the US embassy hostage event in 1979; Carter's failed rescue attempt; etc.
Chapter 21: Colombia: The Keystone of Latin America
120ff: Brief Colombian history; hydro contracts with Chas T. Main; how his firm and the US government convince Colombia to take down very large loans with the assumption that the modernization investments would pay them back on their "investment" and then some. "That was the theory. However, the reality, consistent with our true intent around the world, was the subjugate Bogotá, to further the global empire." He falls in love with a woman there who helps him change his ways, Paula; musings here on coincidences that happen to us and how we respond to them.
Chapter 22: American Republic versus Global Empire
124ff: Guerrilla attacks on a river dam in Columbia; the "Colombians are Expendable doctrine" where the State Department does not allow US citizens on a construction site but only domestic (in this case Colombian) workers.
127ff: On the author's attempts to "comprehend the distinction between the old American Republic and the new global empire." "Its foundation was moral and philosophical rather than materialistic."
Chapter 23: The Deceptive Resume
131ff: His Colombian girlfriend tells him to read his own resume, saying she thinks he'll "find it very interesting." He's grossed out by the twisted and sanitized rendering of his work, although nothing in there was an outright lie. "There was no mention of my recruitment by the NSA" among other omissions. [No shit, dude, you think "The NSA" should have been on your resume? And didn't you approve or at least review your own resume in any case?]
136ff: More on his CV: The author takes particular interest in a client listed as "US Treasury Department, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," which is a subtle indicator of the "deal of the century," something that only insiders would recognize.
138ff: Very interesting comments here about the institutionalization of this exploitation system; also on the appearance of something versus its reality; how he had to be pulled in to this system via the NSA but the employees that followed him were just employees--part of a system that functions the same but without such an obvious connection to the overall control mechanism at work here; it's all sort of an institutionalization of oppression, all serving the US and its neo-mercantilism/neo-colonialism. "I often felt jealous of my employees for their naivete... They did not have to struggle with the moral issues that haunted me."
139: The author realizes that his job "was part of a sinister system aimed... at promoting the most subtle and effective form of imperialism the world has ever known."
Chapter 24: Ecuador's President Battles Big Oil
141ff: On Jaime Roldós, an exception to Ecuador's "political corruption and complicity with the corporatocracy."
142ff: On the sinister use of the NGO Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) a missionary group which would go in and encourage indigenous peoples to move from their land onto reservations; this would enable oil exploration to proceed, and oil companies could easily take over specific lands they wanted. "SIL received funding from the Rockefeller charities."
145: The author turns 35 and resolves to make a major change in his life; he learns that the (very successful) president of Chas T. Main was fired suddenly.
Chapter 25: I Quit
146ff: He has a bit of a crisis thinking through things during a vacation in the Caribbean and then quits on his return to Boston.
Chapter 26: Ecuador's Presidential Death
153ff: He quits, promises he won't say anything negative about the firm, but then "discovers" he doesn't have enough money to retire. The chairman of Chas T. Main asks him to work on retaining an important client and he names a retainer that's triple his salary to do some expert witness work for that client, helping electric utility companies obtain regulatory approval for new power plants, acting as an expert on economic feasibility.
154ff: Discussion here of how Carter lost to Reagan and how, per this author, Carter was a throwback to true American ideals, while Reagan was a "servant of the corporatocracy" and "most definitely a global empire builder."
156: Ecuador's president presents his hydrocarbons law to the Ecuadorian Congress; faces vicious opposition from the oil industry which brands him as another Fidel Castro. He dies in a helicopter crash just weeks later. (!) The author goes through some of the indications that the CIA was involved. The successor president, Osvaldo Hurtado, resumed the standard obedient client oligarchy relationship with the United States and the oil companies.
Chapter 27: Panama: Another Presidential Death
158ff: The author writes that Ecuador's president assassination was done blatantly in order to "send a message." And then Panama's president Omar Torrijos dies in a plane crash just months later. Note that neither of these deaths were meaningfully covered US media at all. Torrijos is replaced with Manuel Noriega.
161 (and 236 note 3): [Note that the author alleges the Reagan/Bush administration sought to assassinate Torrijos, but the footnote supposedly in support of this claim makes no sense: "During the 1973 Watergate hearings, in his testimony before the U.S. Senate, John Dean was the first to disclose U.S. plots to assassinate Torrijos; in 1975, at Senate inquiries in to the CIA, chaired by Senator Frank Church, additional testimony and documentation of plans to kill both Torrijos and Noriega were presented." This citation makes no sense on several levels: the citation date was long before the assassinations happened, it even happened before George Bush Senior was running the CIA (he was appointed in 1976)! Either the author screwed up his footnotes, or he just has the dates/information wrong, or this is a totally bogus allegation.]
Chapter 28: My Energy Company, Enron, and George W. Bush
163: Interesting here to see the author's comments on dangers of nuclear power, describing the beginning of the "shift away from the old theory that nuclear power was safe." [It's fascinating to watch what comes in and out of vogue over the decades as we move right back to the opposite conclusion on nuclear now. It's also disturbing to know that a power plant will have a usable life of 40 to 60 years, long enough to fall in and out of fashion multiple times.]
163: He founds a power company to develop environmentally beneficial power plants, and thinks that he "got help" (in return for his past service and commitment to silence) when there are coincidences that helped his company at different times.
165: Chas T. Main runs into financial trouble and is sold off to another engineering and construction firm [the author doesn't say who but I think Parsons bought them]; also a blurb here on Enron which doesn't really have anything to do with anything in the book; also on George W. Bush's failed energy company Arbusto, again not much relevance to the book here.
Chapter 29: I Take a Bribe
170ff: The author decides to write this book and openly talks about it with others; suddenly a major consulting contract materializes for him conditional on him not writing any additional books! "I understood the real reason I was being hired... I knew that if I had not accepted this bribe, the threats would have followed."
Chapter 30: The United States Invades Panama
173ff: On Manuel Noriega, he was well-connected with the CIA, and the USA used this connection to infiltrate other countries, including Colombian drug cartels. Noriega had a direct friendship with CIA director William Casey, and he thought this would protect him; Noriega per the author as "a symbol of corruption and decadence."
175ff: On George H.W. Bush's "wimp factor" and the unexpected US invasion of Panama; Noriega captured and jailed in the US. The Arias family (and the pre-Torrijos oligarchy) was reinstalled.
179: The author resumes work on his book, in private this time.
Chapter 31: An EHM Failure in Iraq
182ff: Interesting thread here on Iraq, it's much more important than just oil: water and geopolitical/geographical aspects play into its importance; on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that flow through Iraq, tremendously important water resources; Iraq's location is with an easy missile striking distance of both Israel and the former Soviet Union; the author likens it to the Hudson River Valley during the French and Indian war and the American Revolution in terms of strategic importance--in other words whoever controls Iraq controls the entire region, etc. The USA tried to turn Iraq into another Saudi Arabia-type arrangement under Saddam Hussein, but by the late 80s it was obvious that Saddam Hussein was not going to play ball with the EHM technique. Then Saddam played right into Bush's hands by invading Kuwait.
185: Discussion here of how his engineering firm at that time would directly benefit from war.
185-6: The author sells his engineering firm to Ashland Oil; he is still taking money from Stone and Webster; he then starts doing small-group guided tours into the Amazon; the author forms his tour company into a non-profit organization and becomes increasingly involved in the non-profit world. [The NGO world of course is just another lever used to project power and policy throughout the world.]
187: He publishes another book, a non-political title: The World Is As You Dream It. He's struck by the irony of the world he participated in contrasted with this book. [This is an intriguing example here where a guy writes a "do as I say not as I do"-type work. In his book, the author is the literal opposite of what he writes about, and thus the book is a sort of projection, or wish fulfillment]; he quits his lucrative retainer and then decides to write and publish his "real" book once and for all, and then he gets pushback from his non-profit, which convinces him that coming clean with his story would undermine the entire nonprofit movement to help Amazon tribes. So he stops writing again. (!)
Chapter 32: September 11 and its Aftermath for Me, Personally
189ff: He's in the middle of the Amazon when 9/11 happens, then he heads to New York two months later to see the damage; a rather improbable story here of how an Afghan man sits down next to him on a stoop and they have a conversation; the author contemplates the irony of the US funding Osama bin Laden against the Soviets decades earlier.
Chapter 33: Venezuela: Saved by Saddam
196ff: In 2002, Venezuela was the world's fourth largest oil exporter and the USA's third largest oil supplier; the state-owned oil company generates 80% of the company's exports; backdrop on the original discovery in December of 1922 of a huge blowout gusher in Maracaibo; by 1930 the country was the world's largest oil exporter, gradually making Venezuela one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America. EHM activity begins in the 70s and 80s. On how 9/11 relegated Venezuela to the back burner.
198: Once again the author goes on and on about how "it forced me to take a hard look at the consequences of the things I had done." [He writes and thinks this so many times over the course of his career it makes the reader really wonder about his sincerity.] "I started writing once again, but..."
199ff: The US uses the Iran playbook in Venezuela, fomenting an oil worker strike an general unrest to try and get the society to turn against Hugo Chavez. The US and the CIA succeed, albeit only temporarily: Chavez was out of power for about 72 hours but managed to keep the military on his side, then Chavez tightened his grip on the country. The author cites this is an example where not only the EHMs failed but "the jackals" failed too. "The Bush administration could not take on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Venezuela all at once." [Indications of weakening empire here, obviously]
Chapter 34: Ecuador Revisited
206ff: The author tells the Ecuadorian side of the hostage story where indigenous people took oil company employees "hostage" (they were doing oil exploration without permission). The author sits in on a large regional, multi-tribe meeting.
Chapter 35: Piercing the Veneer
212ff: This chapter is sort of silly: worries about the dollar being replaced by the Euro, concerns about US hegemony failing [the author doesn't realize that these two currencies have to move in lockstep for various reasons]; various comments on articles about Bechtel playing a role in rebuilding Iraq, obviously the book lacks later context on what happened after this failed quagmire of a situation.
217: "The Empire depends on the efficacy of big banks, corporations, and governments--the corporatocracy--but it is not a conspiracy. This corporatocracy is ourselves--we make it happen--which, of course, is why most of us find it difficult to stand up and oppose it. We would rather glimpse conspirators lurking in the shadows, because most of us work for one of those banks, corporations, or governments, or in some way are depending on them for the goods and services they produce in the market. We cannot bring ourselves to bite the hand of the master who feeds us." [This is a basic statement on the central conflict at work here.]
217: [It's a little sad to read the author's idealized and romanticized views towards the American Revolution: he looks at it as idealistic men standing up against an Empire, but really it was just one set of elites replacing another! The elites of England who controlled the colonies lost their power to elites in the colonies--who then controlled the colonies. There's a reason why "our" elites installed an indirect democracy, with many, many breaks and controls to limit populist political power.]
Epilogue
221ff: The author warns readers about how the US media is completely corporatized and the owners and editors know their place to operate within the system. He recommends we cut back our oil consumption, reduce our consumerism, protest free trade agreements, join discussion groups etc. "However, this book is not a prescription; it is a confession, pure and simple. It is the confession of a man who allowed himself to become a pawn, an economic hit man; a man who bought into a corrupt system because it offered so many perks... Now it is your turn. You need to make your own confession."
To Read:
Stephen Kinzer: All the Shah's Men
P.W. Singer: Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
James R. Davis: Fortune's Warriors: Private Armies and the New World Order
Arnold Toynbee: Civilization on Trial
Arnold Toynbee: The World and the West
Graham Greene: Getting to Know the General
John Perkins: The Stress-Free Habit
John Perkins: The World Is As You Dream It
Joe Kane: Savages (about the Huaorani tribe)