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

mkrnhr said:
I have the impression that the Ukrainian coup d'état is a new dividing line after 911. When I see people who didn't fall for the official narrative of 911 fall for the present state of propaganda, I wonder if there is not someting more profound about the collective human psyche going on.
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I find this an interesting thought. Fwiw, I noticed in my surrounding that it can go the other way around, too - some people who didn't question 9/11 or just weren't very interested in these things are now highly skeptical about the situation in Ukraine and even realize that the mainstream media are lying all the time about this conflict and present a very one-sided view. Maybe it's because here in Germany, Ukraine seems a lot closer than the Arab world, and there are many Russians and Ukrainians who live here. I don't know, but I think it's a good sign - maybe those people will start questioning more things, once the holy cow "we have a free press!" is slaughtered. Now more than ever people will have to make a choice, and I can't help but wonder if this crisis could be a "game changer" of sorts?
 
Thank you Pierre for you answer. Yes, everything he says in his book is known. But maybe some people are not aware or what Americans-Cia are doing in the rest of the world. I think it is a book for the "masse", not very disturbing and giving the impression of courage. I enjoy parts of the book because it reminded me some CIA actions that with time we tend to forget (that's terrible to forget but it is a fact, there are so many, so many...).

Others writers have written more profound books, I am thinking about "Open veins of Latin America", by Eduardo Galeano. Or simply the book the Shock Doctrine.

(Maybe one day you can interview Naomi Klein? :))

Grosso Modo your programs are always fascinating. Something very precious in our life, for sure!
 
loreta said:
Thank you Pierre for you answer. Yes, everything he says in his book is known. But maybe some people are not aware or what Americans-Cia are doing in the rest of the world. I think it is a book for the "masse", not very disturbing and giving the impression of courage. I enjoy parts of the book because it reminded me some CIA actions that with time we tend to forget (that's terrible to forget but it is a fact, there are so many, so many...).
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That's true there is a lot of interesting material in Perkins' books but like for any writing we have to keep our critical thinking and separate the wheat from the chaff.

loreta said:
Others writers have written more profound books, I am thinking about "Open veins of Latin America", by Eduardo Galeano. Or simply the book the Shock Doctrine.

(Maybe one day you can interview Naomi Klein? :))
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You're reading our minds! ;)
 
Haven't had time to listen to this show yet. But I had some doubts about Perkins in the past, and I think it may have been discussed here on the forum at one point years ago (or maybe on SOTT comments). You gotta take what's valuable in his books, I guess, and maintain critical thinking as ever. But, I have wondered how far he is willing to go or is allowed to go with his expose of our pathological world and the "fun and games" of the pathological elite. One more thing, I was also reminded of Smedley Butler, as mentioned by voyageur, when Perkins' Confessions came out. But I think Butler was much more revealing when he started to criticize the war machine and how he, as a general, was used for fascist economic interests to wage war all over the world.

His "War is a Racket" theme and campaign is a classic; plus, when the corporate fascists / fascist sympathizers were planning a coup to oust FDR, they approached Butler to head the operations. He took the evidence and blew the whistle on the plot, thus stopping it.
 
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