tangentopolis feat. John Perkins
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(world orders review)
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"their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder."
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN (Audiobook)
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John Perkins (2004) Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man
https://archive.org/download/JohnPerkinsConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitMan2004/John%20Perkins%20-%20Confessions%20of%20an%20economic%20hit%20man%20-%202004.pdf
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In Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international (banker/corporate) corruption. Drawing on interviews with other EHMs, jackals, CIA operatives, reporters, businessmen, and activists, Perkins reveals the secret history of events that have created the current American Empire, including:
How the defeats in Vietnam and Iraq have benefited big business
The role of Israel as Fortress America in the Middle East
Tragic repercussions of the IMF's Asian Economic Collapse
The current Latin American revolution and its lessons for democracy
U.S. blunders in Tibet, Congo, Lebanon, and Venezuela
From the U.S. military in Iraq to infrastructure development in Indonesia, from Peace Corps volunteers in Africa to jackals in Venezuela, Perkins exposes a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe, with consequences reflected in our daily headlines.
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“Few swim in riches and the majority drown in poverty, pollution, and violence.”
The top 1 percent of third world households account for 70 to 90 percent of all private financial wealth and real estate ownership in their country.
There are (were?) a famous group of pirates in Indonesia known as the Bugi. They so terrorized early European sailors that the sailors came home and told their children, “Behave yourselves or the Bugimen will get you.” Crazy origin of the phrase.
“The beacon shines on a destiny that is not always one we envision.”
The imperialist and capitalist drive is so strong and so pervasive that it has become the primary cause of most wars, pollution, starvation, species extinctions, and genocides.
Life is composed of a series of coincidences over which we have no control. Once we are presented with such coincidences, we gave choices. How we respond, the actions we take in the face of coincidences, makes all the difference.
How many decisions (including ones of great historical significance that impact millions of people) are made by men and women who are driven by personal motives rather than by a desire to do the right thing?
This book offers a startling reminder that debt is the new form of prison. Entire countries are handicapped by their debt to the United States and other major players.
Lesson: avoid debt at all costs of you want to remain free.
We decry slavery, but our global empire enslaves more people than the Romans and all other colonial powers before us.
