John Perkins





John Perkins

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January 28, 1945

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John Perkins is an activist and author. As a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, Perkins says that he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinational corporations cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.

However, after several years struggling internally over the role he was playing in crippling foreign economies, he quit his consulting job. In the 1980s Perkins founded and directed a successful independent energy company, which he subsequently sold. Since then he has been heavily involved with non-profit organizations in Ecuador and around the world. He continues this work tod...more


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Ever since Edward Snowden admitted that he was responsible for the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history, the media has been in a frenzy over whether this man is a hero or a traitor. Snowden’s leaked evidence of two sweeping U.S. surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency (NSA) fuels the fire of the debate over the clash between national security and privacy...

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“The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.”
John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.”
John Perkins

“The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are”
John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

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