Perkins helped create today's US/Corporate Hegemony or Empire Building. He had a change of heart, finding himself steeped in guilt for the harm he and his ilk created for the simple goal of enriching a few at the expense of the most.
John wrote a wonderfully insightful book: Confessions of an Economic Hitman (EHM) which you can read online here. Perkins exposes how he and his EHM team exploited many countries. It is a searchable document, so you can focus on one country for research purposes.
I found Confessions.... filled in some missing, critical information presented in Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine.
For those of you don't have time to read the book, which I highly recommend to anyone wanting to understand the basis of US policy at home and abroad, here is a 1:24 hour presentation by John Perkins.
I will present both the old and new embed codes (you might see two copies of the same video) because one or the other is not always viewable on handheld devices.
John Perkins, one of the first Economic Hitmen, clearly states at about minute 0:23:52 in the following videos
The human spirit is indominatible.......
0:24:30 What will you do?
0:24:55 What will it take to turn around this Empire? We must create a new model!
0:26:00 They all work under one premise:
US/Multi-National Empire building has one goal:
TO MAXIMIZE PROFITS
regardless of the environmental and/or social costs.
This is what must be changed, and can be changed if the laws governing multi-nationals are changed. We have to demand this change in our State, Federal, and seats of governments throughout the world.
Will we?
Solving our problems isn't rocket science. We simply have to cure GREED and SOCIAL IRRESPONSIBILITY.
John Perkins and I reached the same conclusions which you will understand if you listen to the video.
We have to transform the Military Industrial Complex into the Environmental Industrial Complex as covered in this diary: Earth Survives Homo Sapien Attack
And we must change the Multi-National model. Sufficiency Capitalism is a new model.
Sufficiency Capitalism TM - The People's New World Order
Do you understand why the President Obama administration seems to mirror BushCo?
I do.....
If you want to understand President Obama, you have to first understand the wave of Empire Building he rode into town on. No President can stop the US/Corporate controlled Empire. His hands are tied unless the tide of American people stop the corporate control of politicians in DC and in State governments.
John Perkins, in the book and video, offers us some guidance to help stop the negative aspects of the US Hegemonic Empire (Multi-National Corporation World Control)
I believe the American people have to stand up to the corporatocracy to save not only ourselves but to save the people of the world from the suffering imposed by greed and the corrupt lust for power.
Here are the Preface of Confessions of an Economic Hitman:
PREFACE
Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.
They funnel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign "aid" organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources.
Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.
They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrify-ing dimensions during this time of globalization.
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During the 1980s, young men and women rose up through the ranks of middle management believing that any means justified the end: an enhanced bottom line. Global empire was simply a pathway to increased profits.
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CHAPTER 35
Piercing the Veneer Shortly after I returned home from Ecuador in 2003, the United States invaded Iraq for the second time in a little over a decade.
The EHMs had failed.
The jackals had failed.
So young men and women were sent to kill and die among the desert sands.
One important question the invasion raised, but one that I figured few Americans would be in a position to consider, was what this would mean for the royal House of Saud.
If the United States took over Iraq, which according to many estimates has more oil than Saudi Arabia, there would seem to be little need to continue honoring the pact we struck with the Saudi royal family in the 1970s, the deal that originated with the Saudi Arabian Moneylaundering Affair.
If you search John's book, as linked above, you will understand what Saudi Arabian Money Laundering Affair (SAMA). John was a key man in putting together SAMA.
You will also understand that the US and the Saudis financed Bin Laden/Al Quada.
Viewed through this prism, the sectarian violence in Iraq takes on new meaning. In short, thwarting Iraqi oil development helps the oil production in other countries like Saudi Arabia and even the US.
It will be worth your time to peruse the book and to listen to John Perkins presentation.
Interestingly, Perkins became an Economic Hit Man by being tapped by NSA at the time young men were being drafted for the Vietnam War! Perkins was drafted and:
Uncle Frank came to my rescue. He informed me that an NSA job made one eligible for draft deferment, and he arranged for a series of meetings at his agency, including a day of grueling polygraph-monitored interviews.
John was against the war and assumed he would fail the NSA tests. He passed
At first I assumed all these things that seemed so negative to me marked me as an NSA reject, but the interviews continued, suggesting otherwise.
It was not until several years later that I realized that from an NSA viewpoint these negatives actually are positive.
Their assessment had less to do with issues of loyalty to my country than with the frustrations of my life.
Anger at my parent, an obsession with women, and my ambition to live the good life gave them a hook; I was seducible.
My determination to excel in school and in sports, my ultimate rebellion against my father, my ability to get along with foreigners, and my willingness to lie to the police were exactly the types of attributes they sought.
WHAT AN INTERESTING INSIGHT INTO NSA HIRING!