A Militarized Economy Cannot Balance the Budget By John Perkins

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By John Perkins
Information Clearing House
April 08, 2011

“Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.” Eisenhower, 1961 Military Industrial Speech

While we send our love and support to those so horribly impacted by the earthquake and tsunami, we must not allow this shock to divert us from the tsunami headed our way. Our business and political leaders will try to use this terrible catastrophe as a diversion to hoodwink us into budgetary reductions that will fatten their wallets and leave us and our children devastated.

Economic Hitman John Perkins, interviewed by Cindy Sheehan

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Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox
April 10, 2011

(SOAPBOX #94) – Cindy’s first guest is activist Karen Tostado.  Her main website is United We Strike.  She’s also developing another web site, Taxfree15.com.  She contributes many worthwhile & cogent insights […] and ideas.  Check it out!

Cindy’s next guest is former Economic Hitman John Perkins, who discusses events in Libya plus the Shamanic movement and its influence of Shamanic spirituality on the non-violent popular revolution in Latin America – and on the Robber class’ (= corporatocracy’s) profound FEAR of the emergence of a “Good Example” there (i.e., any form of social organization that doesn’t concentrate the wealth in the hands of the upper 0.1% of the population and thus all the real power in society).

Ecuador: Failed Coup or Institutional Crisis?

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TheRealNews | October 07, 2010

Ecuadorian filmmaker Oscar León presents his take on his country’s history that led to the crisis that left the President teargassed and pitted the army against the police. Part one of two.

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Keiser Report №14: Why is the US threatening China, Russia and Iran? + John Perkins

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RussiaToday
February 04, 2010

This time Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert look at the scandals behind Hank Paulson’s memoir allegations, Hilary Clinton’s threats to cut China’s energy supply, and Barack Obama’s big, big budget. Keiser also talks to former economic hitman John Perkins about whether or not the United States is now being attacked by economic hitmen.

John Perkins: How to Remake the Global Economy

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Commonwealth Club

John Perkins, author of Hoodwinked and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, blames Iceland’s economic collapse on the tactics of economic hit men from multi-national corporations .

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Economic hit man John Perkins has confessed the sins of predatory politicians and analyzed the reasons for the current meltdown. A reformed economist, he warns that returning to our “normal” blueprints for the global economy would prove disastrous. Perkins details the steps to transform “the mutant form of capitalism” into a system based on sustainability and justice. – Commonwealth Club

John Perkins spent three decades as an Economic Hit Man, business executive, author, and lecturer. He lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. Then he made a decision: he would use these experiences to make the planet a better place for his daughter’s generation. Today he teaches about the importance of rising to higher levels of consciousness, to waking up – in both spiritual and physical realms – and is a champion for environmental and social causes. He has lectured at universities on four continents, including Harvard, Wharton, and Princeton.

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The Secret Global Empire(s): Russ Baker & John Perkins

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by Laura Flaunders
GRITtv
Nov. 12, 2009

U.S. history has seen many presidents elected on a wave of progressive promises, only to see them compromise again and again once in office, caving to the very interests, military and corporate, that they railed against so effectively.  Barack Obama is only the latest to get elected on a promise to end a war and take care of working people, only to preside over an administration stacked with Wall Street types and wind up continuing a war he wanted to wind down.

John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded — and How to Remake Them

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Democracy Now!
Nov. 9, 2009

Hoodwinked: Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and How to Remake Them

John Perkins calls himself a former economic hit man. He has seen the signs of today’s financial meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiasco, the collapse of the banking industry, the rising unemployment rate—these are all familiar to him. Perkins was on the front lines of monitoring and helping create these very events that were once just confined to the Third World. From 1971 to 1981, he worked for the international consulting firm of Chas T. Main, where he was a self-described “economic hit man.” He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Confessions of An Economic Hit Man and The Secret History of the American Empire.

Michael Hudson Interview on Iceland

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Zeitgeist: Addendum

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Riz Khan Evo Morales vs US 24 July 2008

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Ever since he won the Bolivian presidency in 2005, Evo Morales has been a thorn in America’s side. He once said, “The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism.” Originally a coca farmer himself, he has tried to block U.S. intervention in eradicating coca farming in his country. In 2006, he partially nationalized Bolivia’s oil and gas industry. Last month both countries recalled their ambassadors and tensions remain high between La Paz and Washington. AlJazeeraEnglish

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (videos)

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Interview with John Perkins author of “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.”

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Democracy Now: “Economic Hit Man” John Perkins (videos)

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“Economic Hit Man” John Perkins Recounts US Efforts to Block Nationalization of Panama Canal

Panamanian President Martin Torrijos was in Washington earlier this week to discuss a pending free trade agreement with the United States, where he drew praise from President Bush on winning national approval for the $5.2 billion expansion plan for the Panama Canal. But three decades ago the moves to nationalize the Panama Canal by President Torrijos’s father, General Omar Torrijos, met with enormous resistance in this country.

Get Educated: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man By William Mac (videos)

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Oct. 5, 2007

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William Mac from The Mac Manifesto at William-Mac.com turns people on to the book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” written by John Perkins. He reads a chosen excerpt from Chapter two “In For Life” and explains why this book is important to read. It details real life corruption in government and corporations from a man who was there and who operated on the front lines, and the book sheds light on a wide array of subjects including the ongoing Iraq war and how this war was actually a failed “Economic Hit”.

The Secret History of the American Empire By John Perkins

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By John Perkins
07/06/07 “ICH”

The elevator door opened. Three men stood inside. Unlike Pepe and me, they were not wearing business suits. They were dressed casually in slacks and sweaters. One wore a leather jacket. What got my attention, though, were the guns. All three carried AK- 47s.

“An unfortunate necessity in Guatemala these days,” Pepe explained. He ushered me toward the waiting elevator. “At least for those of us who are friends of the United States, friends of democracy. We need our Maya killers.”

John Perkins: Jerk, Con Man, Shill by Greg Palast

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by Greg Palast
5 July 2007

I remember John Perkins. He was a real jerk. A gold-plated, super-slick lying little butthole shill for corporate gangsters; a snake-oil salesman with a movie-star grin, shiny loafers, a crooked calculator and a tooled leather briefcase full of high-blown bullshit.

This was two decades ago. The early 1980s. I wore sandals, uncombed hair down to my cheap collar and carried a busted ring-binder filled with honest calculations and sincere analysis. It was Economic Hit Man Perkins vs. Economic Long-Hair Palast. I didn’t stand a chance. The EHM was about to put a political bullet hole through me wider than a silver dollar.