Director of Resist in conversation with John Perkins, author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman'
‘ECONOMIC HITMEN ARE THE FIRST STEP’.
Economic Hitmen have created the world’s first truly global empire and done it for the first time, primarily, without the military. And we worked many different ways but perhaps the most common was that we would identify a country with resources the corporations covet, like oil, and arrange a huge loan to that country through the World Bank or one of its sisters. However, the money doesn’t actually go to the country, it goes to our own corporations that build the infrastructure projects in that country - power
plants, roads, ports, industrial parks – things that benefit a few of the rich people in that country, as well as our own corporations, but don’t…
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