We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people. — John Perkins Copy Share Image
But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure -… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“How, I asked myself, do you convince men and women who live comfortably to change a system that provides their comforts--even when they know about EHMs and jackals, when they understand that attached to their comforts are terrible price tags? Where do you find words to empower them to stand up to a force like the corporatocracy? How do you… — john perkins Copy Share
“The first question we must address deals with optimism, the possibility of achieving our goal. Are we in a position where we can actually hope to effect change? Assuming we become convinced that there are reasons for optimism, we move to the next question. Are we cetain that we want change? The stories about EHMs, jackals, and suffering around the… — John Perkins Copy Share
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
None of the quick fixes to the world's problems are going to work, unless we change the dream of greed and scarcity that the… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“Stop being so greedy," she said, "and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion magazines for the latest styles. Nations like ours are drowning in poverty, but your people… — John Perkins Copy Share
