John Perkins

John Perkins
Human Abuse

[vid] Apologies Of An Economic Hitman | Full Documentary by JOHN PERKINS (9-1`5-11)Working for an NSA sub-contractor (cut-out), John Perkins was a member of the secret team of "economic hit men", agents of multinational coporations as well as the IMF and World Bank, who used fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, military coups and murder to create the global American empire after World War II. After a long internal struggle between his guilt and the fear of telling the truth, Perkins meets the daughter of an assassinated president and speaks out in front of an angry audience in Ecuador, one of the scenes of Perkins' crimes.

Book
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Quotes
"We bought Saddam Hussein into power, we lent him billions of dollars, we built chemical plants for him, knowing full well that these chemical plants were being used to produce chemical weapons that would be employed against the Kurds and the Iranians."--[vid] Apologies Of An Economic Hitman | Full Documentary by JOHN PERKINS

"Robert McNamara was a very very significant player in all this. Of course in a way he represents the Corporatocracy because the Corporatocracy is composed of three pillars, the heads of big Corporations, the heads of big banks and the heads of government. McNamara represents it from thje fact he was President of Ford..and then became Secretary of Defence under Kennedy and Johnson."--[vid] Apologies Of An Economic Hitman | Full Documentary by JOHN PERKINS

I started writing it in the 80s after I stopped being an economic hit man. I contacted other economic hit men and jackals who destabilize government when hit men fail; I contacted these people to include them in the book. Then I received anonymous phone calls; threats on my daughter's life, and she was very young at the time. I took the threats very seriously, as I have seen what jackals can do because I failed to corrupt Jaime Roldos, the democratically elected President of Ecuador and Arias Madreid of Panama; the jackals assassinated both of those leaders. [2011] Interview

[2011] Interview (IMF) It's a servant of the corporatocracy, of economic hit men. One of my jobs as an economic hit man was to identify countries that had resources like oil and arrange huge loans for those countries from the World Bank and sister organizations. But the money would never go to the actual country; instead it would go to our own corporations to build infrastructure projects in that country like power plants and industrial parks; things that would benefit a few very wealthy families.
So then the people of the country would be left holding this huge debt that they couldn't repay. We would come back and say, "well, since you can't repay your debt, you have to restructure your loan." That's when the IMF comes in. So the World Bank makes the original loan and IMF shows up and says, "We'll help you restructure your loan, but in order to do that you have to meet certain conditionalities. You have to sell your oil or whatever the coveted resource is at a cheap price, to the oil companies without restrictions." Or they would suggest the country sell electric utilities, water and sewage, maybe even your schools and jails to private multi-national corporations. Or maybe allow military bases to be built; these sorts of things.

We have created a world where 5% of us in the United States consume about 30% of the world's resources. The system that we created is a total failure and it causes tremendous misery. People often talk about the prophet of 2012 and Mayan prophecy of doomsday, but I think more than half the people of the world have already met doomsday. They are living in dire poverty and starving to death or on the verge of starvation, so we have created a world that is its own doomsday. This system has been created by organizations like the IMF, the World Bank, the CIA, the NSA and the multinationals. [2011] Interview