MUST READ BOOK in connection with UK memo, the story of the decade

[wiggs]

The UK memo is the story of the decade, maybe the story of the century. The rest of the world is treating it like that, even if our MSM is not.

The dots need to be connected between the UK memo and the story of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man". Here's another insider...a respected partner in a firm that set up situations that lead to control of other countries, including Iraq. The book establishes the POLICY that is discussed in the memo: expansion of empire. Invasion of Iraq isn't the policy, it's just the latest manifestation of the policy. The policy is empire building for the sake of CORPORATOCRACY.

According to the book (havent finished yet), we've spent the last 30-40 years pulling other countries into the fold one way or another: economic enslavement, political control, corruption, military force and occupation, etc. Iraq is another example, the latest. Almost always, control brings with it continued chaos, oppression of the masses, and concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. It's bad news for almost everyone except those at the top of the pyramid.

The book is eye opening for me. The stories of Panama, Guatamala, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and more are context for what is going on now in Iraq and Iran. Military or political control are only means to an end. The goal is to enrich American corporations with contruction and management contracts while at the same time impoverishing and defanging the country to get access to the country's riches, UN votes, or labor force.

I have seen so many outrages come and go that I don't excited anymore about the chances of one getting legs and gaining serious attention. But the UK memo and "Confessions" have far reaching implications. This is deadly serious stuff...a glimpse at an alternate universe that Americans have a hard time accepting. As a nation, we need to get over our disbelief, find a way to talk about it, and then act accordingly. If we can do that, we may reach a real tipping point.

I say: get John Perkins out there to talk about his book in the context of Iraq and the memo.

[Al-CIAda]

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Guest: John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
Fri., December 10, 2004
Deadline Live w/Jack Blood

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pt1- Interview starts approx. half way through
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood1.mp3
pt2-CIA sequence of Empire (economics, assasinations, torture, vote rigging, etc.) Naming names...vote rigging!
http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood2.mp3

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http://mp3.rbnlive.com/Blood/0412/20041210_Fri_JackBlood.ram

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Democracy Now!
Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How the U.S. Uses Globalization to Cheat Poor Countries Out of Trillions
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We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies.
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John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man - a highly paid professional who cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.

20 years ago Perkins began writing a book with the working title, "Conscience of an Economic Hit Men."

Perkins writes, "The book was to be dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been his clients whom I respected and thought of as kindred spirits - Jaime Roldós, president of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, president of Panama. Both had just died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental. They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire. We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in.

John Perkins goes on to write: "I was persuaded to stop writing that book. I started it four more times during the next twenty years. On each occasion, my decision to begin again was influenced by current world events: the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1980, the first Gulf War, Somalia, and the rise of Osama bin Laden. However, threats or bribes always convinced me to stop."


Excerpt:
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins joins us now in our firehouse studio. Welcome to Democracy Now!

JOHN PERKINS: Thank you, Amy. It’s great to be here.

AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Okay, explain this term, “economic hit man,” e.h.m., as you call it.

JOHN PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring -- to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we’ve been very successful. 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 in as a last resort. 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 part of that.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/09/1526251