Show #56: Confessions of an Economic Hitman - Interview with John Perkins

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Sunday March 9th, 2014: Confessions of an Economic Hitman - Interview with John Perkins

This week we're interviewing John Perkins, author, public speaker, and founder of two non-profit organizations, Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance.

While working as Chief Economist for a consulting firm in the 1970s, Perkins advised the World Bank, United Nations, International Monetary Fund (IMF), U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. When he realized he had become an 'economic hit man' playing a dishonorable role in the economic colonization of the world on behalf of elite multinational corporations, banks and the United States government, Perkins decided he wanted to become part of the solution, not the problem.

Perkins' book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - published in over 30 languages, and selling over 1.2 million copies worldwide - is a startling first-hand exposé of international corruption on a gargantuan scale, while his Secret History of the American Empire, another New York Times bestseller, details the clandestine operations that created the world's first truly global empire.

Our guest's latest book, Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded - And How To Fix It, offers a blueprint for a new form of global economics, away from predatory capitalism and into an era more transformative than the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.

Join us this Sunday March 9th, 2014 from 2-4pm EST (11am-1pm PST, 7-9pm CET) as we get the lowdown on the IMF and U.S. foreign and economic policy from a former insider.
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Heads up to all Europe-based SOTT Talk Radio listeners:

This week's show with John Perkins commences at 7pm CET (8pm GMT) to take into account North America's switch to Daylight Savings Time. So if you're in western Europe, this week's show is from 7-9pm (CET), or 6-8pm (GMT) if you're in the UK/Ireland.

If you're in the US or Canada, the show will be broadcast live at our regularly scheduled time: 11am-1pm Pacific Time, 2-4pm Eastern Time.
 
Wow, this is something. Congratulations.

I read his book some years ago. I like it. But not 100%. I saw that his version of the 9/11 was a little too conventional. I thought he was not entirely critic of what happened that day. In fact, he was insinuating that 9/11 was made from Arab terrorists. (But maybe I read wrong?). But in general his book is very interesting and gives a lot of information of how this Empire is working.

So thanks again to bring so interesting people in your programs!
 
I'm looking forward to this interview with baited breath. or is it bated breath? Let's see what he now has to say about 9/11!
 
loreta said:
Wow, this is something. Congratulations.
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So thanks again to bring so interesting people in your programs!
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I agree.

If I am not mistaken John Perkins also featured in the documentary 'The corporation: the pathological pursuit of profit and power' (just like Robert Hare).
I watched Oliver Stone's documentary (of 2009) about South-America and Hugo Chavez twice and he also spoke of 'predatory capitalism' and stated that South-America had been the guinea pig for the IMF. When Stone visited several Latin American countries one of his topics included the IMF. Several countries paid off their debts to this vulture fund (like Argentina and Brasil) and Venezuela even lent six billion to Argentina. It is really outrageous how these institutions have raped and pillared these countries, while demanding cuts in social programs and higher prices for the poor. It is downright cruel.

http://www.sott.net/article/275035-South-of-the-Border-Oliver-Stone-documentary-on-Latin-America-and-Hugo-Chavez

The queen of Holland is now on a promotional tour in South-America (e.g. Columbia) , being Argentinian herself and a representative of the UN, trying to convince poor people to go into debt and forsake cash money and instead use a mobile to pay the bills.
I am really p.ssed off about that.
 
A perfect example of how the IMF works. :evil: :evil:

http://www.sott.net/article/275248-IMF-finally-gets-its-way-Washington-and-EUs-Yatsenyuk-agrees-to-onerous-terms-as-severe-austerity-measures-imposed-on-Ukraine
 
Thank you, looks to will be another great show!.

Mariama said:
loreta said:
Wow, this is something. Congratulations.
...
So thanks again to bring so interesting people in your programs!
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I agree.

If I am not mistaken John Perkins also featured in the documentary 'The corporation: the pathological pursuit of profit and power' (just like Robert Hare).
I watched Oliver Stone's documentary (of 2009) about South-America and Hugo Chavez twice and he also spoke of 'predatory capitalism' and stated that South-America had been the guinea pig for the IMF. When Stone visited several Latin American countries one of his topics included the IMF. Several countries paid off their debts to this vulture fund (like Argentina and Brasil) and Venezuela even lent six billion to Argentina. It is really outrageous how these institutions have raped and pillared these countries, while demanding cuts in social programs and higher prices for the poor. It is downright cruel.

http://www.sott.net/article/275035-South-of-the-Border-Oliver-Stone-documentary-on-Latin-America-and-Hugo-Chavez
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Thanks for sharing, Mariama. Maybe to commemorate the first year of the physical disappearance of Chavez, it might be a good question to Perkins what he think about the death of Chavez, if he think that Chavez was killed somehow?.

Mariama said:
The queen of Holland is now on a promotional tour in South-America (e.g. Columbia) , being Argentinian herself and a representative of the UN, trying to convince poor people to go into debt and forsake cash money and instead use a mobile to pay the bills.
I am really p.ssed off about that.
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Well, that must be very Catholic of her part! Also we should thank to her husband, King Willem-Alexander, who has made ​​it clear that from now on will be "survival of the fittest" -and "every man for himself"-, darwinian ideal which only those with money and power may be a citizen with rights to health, education and others, like to live (at least he warns, not like other mediators of the elite):
"The welfare state of the twentieth century is over":
_http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-king-willemalexander-declares-the-end-of-the-welfare-state-8822421.html

Some curious things, as to call "participatory society" what really is privatization. Then there is the description of freedom as something private and individual, when it should be first as something collective and social, for all. And he (they, tptb) decide for the people, again, that this is the model of freedom that all prefer. It's very sad, because there is no more a hypothetical choice between a neoliberal model or a socialist model for the states. This is the full deployment of large corporations unelected over participatory states with guaranteed rights for all. A totalitarian state only for the "winners". Or maybe it's not so sad, it's the truth of this enslaved world. All the welfare states since the 50s in the West, was necessary for the elite as counter-propaganda against the Soviet model, including the rights. That is no longer necessary.
 
Heads up to all Europe-based SOTT Talk Radio listeners:

This week's show with John Perkins commences at 7pm CET (8pm GMT) to take into account North America's switch to Daylight Savings Time. So if you're in western Europe, this week's show is from 7-9pm (CET), or 6-8pm (GMT) if you're in the UK/Ireland.

If you're in the US or Canada, the show will be broadcast live at our regularly scheduled time: 11am-1pm Pacific Time, 2-4pm Eastern Time.
 
Kniall said:
Heads up to all Europe-based SOTT Talk Radio listeners:

This week's show with John Perkins commences at 7pm CET (8pm GMT) to take into account North America's switch to Daylight Savings Time. So if you're in western Europe, this week's show is from 7-9pm (CET), or 8-10pm (GMT) if you're in the UK/Ireland.

If you're in the US or Canada, the show will be broadcast live at our regularly scheduled time: 11am-1pm Pacific Time, 2-4pm Eastern Time.
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Just want to clarify something and not miss the show. Maybe it should be 6-8pm (GTM)? CET, at least according to the internet, is GMT+1.

Belarus is GMT+3. So if the show really starts at 8-10pm (GMT), it will start here at 23:00, while usually it starts at 22:00. Meaning, that for me it will be actually a one hour later. :) Or I'll just go with the 7-9pm (CET), which makes it 21:00 and indeed a one hour earlier! Hope it's not too confusing.
 
On blogtalk it doesn't start the player and on a software based music player it stopped now. Okay, there seem to be connection problems going on.
 
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