Articles by John Perkins
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman
John Perkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
Perkins’ function was to convince the political and financial leadership of underdeveloped countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID. Saddled with debts they could not hope to pay, those countries were forced to acquiesce to political pressure from the United States on a variety of issues. Perkins argues in his book that developing nations were effectively neutralized politically, had their wealth gaps driven wider and economies crippled in the long run.
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An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action
John Perkins | TED Talks – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not “play the game” were assassinated or overthrown. He brings us up to date about the way the economic hit man system has spread from developing countries to the US, Europe, and the rest of the world and offers a strategy for turning this around.
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John Perkins | Zeitgeist – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
Many North Europeans think Greece and Europe are in crisis because the Greeks lived more luxuriously than they could afford. The truth is far from that. I can tell with certainty, Greece is not paying for its thoughtlessness. Greece is under the attack of economic hitmen. And I’m afraid so is the whole Europe, country after country.
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John Perkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2014
Participating in the consciousness revolution can no longer be ignored as simply a nice, feel-good choice for those who might care enough or find it convenient. It is now imperative for all of us who share this tiny, fragile space station as our only home.
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John Perkins – Toward Freedom,
30 Jul 2012
In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world’s third-largest dam—by dismantling it. Here’s what they can teach us about standing up to power.
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John Perkins – Information Clearing House,
8 Aug 2011
Bailouts serve the creditors; they enslave the debtors. Although protesters swarm the streets of Athens, objecting to the draconian measures being imposed by the EU and the IMF, the country’s leaders are crumbling; they are accepting the bailouts. It has become evident that bailouts in our own U.S. crisis have only benefited the corporatocracy, with CEO’s paying themselves outrageous bonuses. This method of borrowing against the well-being of a country’s citizens merely serves to increase the power of the central banks, the IMF and corporate CEOs.
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Economic Hit Men
John Perkins – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2011
An animated presentation by John Perkins, author of ‘Hood Winked’ and ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.’
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John Perkins – Information Clearing House,
2 May 2011
The US, the other G-8 countries, the World Bank, IMF, BIS, and multinational corporations do not look kindly on leaders who threaten their dominance over world currency markets or who appear to be moving away from the international banking system that favors the corporatocracy.
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John Perkins - Yes! Magazine,
16 Nov 2009
To combat terrorism, we should address the root causes of poverty, says former "economic hit man." The following is adapted from Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and What We Need to Do to Remake Them. Random House, 2009. Navy Seal snipers rescued an American cargo ship captain unharmed and killed […]
→ read full articleHONDURAS: MILITARY COUP ENGINEERED BY TWO US COMPANIES?
John Perkins,
8 Aug 2009
I recently visited Central America. Everyone I talked with there was convinced that the military coup that had overthrown the democratically-elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, had been engineered by two US companies, with CIA support. And that the US and its new president were not standing up for democracy. Earlier in the year Chiquita […]
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John Perkins - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2008
John Perkins is the author of Confessions of An Economic Hit Man The Truth about Global Corruption Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel, Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American […]
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