John Perkins

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's…

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I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

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But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at…

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Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many…

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The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new…

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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my…

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“How, I asked myself, do you convince men and women who live comfortably to change a system that provides their comforts--even when…

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“The first question we must address deals with optimism, the possibility of achieving our goal. Are we in a position where we…

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And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy.…

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I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely…

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None of the quick fixes to the world's problems are going to work, unless we change the dream of greed and scarcity…

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“Stop being so greedy," she said, "and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and…

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Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

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“The income ratio of the one-fifth of the world's population in the wealthiest countries to the one-fifth in the poorest went from…

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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would…

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“This book was written so that we may take heed and remold our story. I am certain that when enough of us…

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There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the…

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“...life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as…

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We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War…

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“Jangan menjadi pengikut Buddha. Dunia tidak butuh pengikut Buddha lebih banyak lagi. Tapi sebarkanlah kasih sayang. Dunia membutuhkan banyak kasih sayang. -Dalai…

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“In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, "That's why I'm meeting with you. Only…

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The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves…

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And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our…

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No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an…

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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half…

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