And if I hadn't lived this life as an economic hit man, I think I'd have a hard time believing that anybody does these things.
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John Perkins - american economist
Was born on 28 jan 1945.
Origin country: United States
And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we...
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Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.
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But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.
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Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
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House of Saud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to us, which they've done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the House of Saud in power as long as they did this, which we've done, which is one of the...
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I believe the World Bank and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world. Help genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people...
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I come from a very old New England family, Calvinist, steeped in amazingly strong moral values. I think I, you know, I'm a good person overall, and I think my story really shows how this system and these powerful drugs of sex, money and power can...
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I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.
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I knew the jackals were closing in on him, and the next thing, his plane exploded with a tape recorder with a bomb in it.
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I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I was chief economist. I was doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so on
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I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
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I worked very, very closely with the World Bank, the World Bank provides most of the money that's used by economic hit men, it and the I.M.F.
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Saddam Hussein's bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn't get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who are sent in to die...
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The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.
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The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia new cities, new infrastructure which we've done.
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There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.
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