If you still don’t understand why people all over the world hates America so much, then you owe yourself to read the article below.<\/p>\n
I can testify that it’s indeed what’s happening in Indonesia :<\/p>\n
1. “Generously” give as much loan as possible, making sure it’s so big that there’s no way the receiving country would be able to repay it
\n2. Make sure that most of that loans is being used to pay American companies for various projects
\n3. Enjoy the huge yearly interest payment, which should be used to to make life better for the country’s citizens instead
\n4. Make the debts as a hostage – demand ransoms; make the indebted country to do American gov’t biddings
\n5. If the country’s leader ever dared to refure the command, then just kill him \/ her.<\/p>\n
Result:
\n1. Creation of ultra rich elite class
\n2. America gov’t enslaving many countries
\n3. Extreme poverty in the enslaved countries – clean water a luxury, thosands daily death due to hunger, extreme suffering put on the children and babies, and so on.
\n4. A lot of people hates America, and become terrorists – and terrorize American people<\/p>\n
So if you’re an American citizen, most likely you’re a victim as well. Only a few people on the ultra elite class are benefiting from all this.You need to do something to change this, and you’re the ones most likely will be able to do something about it. <\/p>\n
Please, help us all.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins joins us now in our firehouse studio. Welcome to
\nDemocracy Now!<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Thank you, Amy. It\u2019s great to be here.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: It\u2019s good to have you with us. Okay, explain this term,
\n\u201ceconomic hit man,\u201d e.h.m., as you call it.<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do
\nis to build up the American empire. To bring — to create situations where
\nas many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations,
\nand our government, and in fact we\u2019ve been very successful. We\u2019ve built the
\nlargest empire in the history of the world. It’s been done over the last 50
\nyears since World War II with very little military might, actually. It’s
\nonly in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last
\nresort. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been
\nbuilt primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through
\nfraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic
\nhit men. I was very much a part of that.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: How did you become one? Who did you work for?<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I was initially recruited while I was in business school
\nback in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation’s
\nlargest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for
\nprivate corporations. The first real economic hit man was back in the early
\n1950’s, Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of Teddy, who overthrew of government
\nof Iran, a democratically elected government, Mossadegh\u2019s government who was
\nTime’s magazine person of the year; and he was so successful at doing this
\nwithout any bloodshed — well, there was a little bloodshed, but no military
\nintervention, just spending millions of dollars and replaced Mossadegh with
\nthe Shah of Iran. At that point, we understood that this idea of economic
\nhit man was an extremely good one. We didn’t have to worry about the threat
\nof war with Russia when we did it this way. The problem with that was that
\nRoosevelt was a C.I.A. agent. He was a government employee. Had he been
\ncaught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very
\nembarrassing. So, at that point, the decision was made to use organizations
\nlike the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. to recruit potential economic hit men like me
\nand then send us to work for private consulting companies, engineering
\nfirms, construction companies, so that if we were caught, there would be no
\nconnection with the government.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: Okay. Explain the company you worked for.<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Well, the company I worked for was a company named Chas. T.
\nMain in Boston, Massachusetts. We were about 2,000 employees, and I became
\nits chief economist. I ended up having fifty people working for me. But my
\nreal job was deal-making. It was giving loans to other countries, huge
\nloans, much bigger than they could possibly repay. One of the conditions of
\nthe loan\u00adlet’s say a $1 billion to a country like Indonesia or Ecuador\u00adand
\nthis country would then have to give ninety percent of that loan back to a
\nU.S. company, or U.S. companies, to build the infrastructure\u00ada Halliburton
\nor a Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and
\nbuild an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically
\nserve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. The
\npoor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing
\ndebt that they couldn\u2019t possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes
\nover fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it
\nreally can\u2019t do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we
\nwant more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, \u201cLook, you’re not able to repay
\nyour debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which
\nare filled with oil.\u201d And today we’re going in and destroying Amazonian rain
\nforests, forcing Ecuador to give them to us because they\u2019ve accumulated all
\nthis debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United
\nStates, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they
\nbasically become our servants, our slaves. It’s an empire. There’s no two
\nways about it. It\u2019s a huge empire. It’s been extremely successful.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking to John Perkins, author of Confessions of an
\nEconomic Hit Man. You say because of bribes and other reason you didn’t
\nwrite this book for a long time. What do you mean? Who tried to bribe you,
\nor who — what are the bribes you accepted?<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I accepted a half a million dollar bribe in the nineties
\nnot to write the book.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: From?<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: From a major construction engineering company.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: Which one?<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Legally speaking, it wasn’t — Stoner-Webster. Legally
\nspeaking it wasn’t a bribe, it was — I was being paid as a consultant. This
\nis all very legal. But I essentially did nothing. It was a very understood,
\nas I explained in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, that it was — I
\nwas — it was understood when I accepted this money as a consultant to them
\nI wouldn’t have to do much work, but I mustn’t write any books about the
\nsubject, which they were aware that I was in the process of writing this
\nbook, which at the time I called \u201cConscience of an Economic Hit Man.\u201d And I
\nhave to tell you, Amy, that, you know, it\u2019s an extraordinary story from the
\nstandpoint of — It’s almost James Bondish, truly, and I mean–<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: Well that’s certainly how the book reads.<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Yeah, and it was, you know? And when the National Security
\nAgency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They
\nfound out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the
\nstrongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. I come
\nfrom a very old New England family, Calvinist, steeped in amazingly strong
\nmoral values. I think I, you know, I\u2019m a good person overall, and I think my
\nstory really shows how this system and these powerful drugs of sex, money
\nand power can seduce people, because I certainly was seduced. And if I
\nhadn’t lived this life as an economic hit man, I think I\u2019d have a hard time
\nbelieving that anybody does these things. And that’s why I wrote the book,
\nbecause our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation
\nunderstood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is
\nabout, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will
\ndemand change.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking to John Perkins. In your book, you talk about how
\nyou helped to implement a secret scheme that funneled billions of dollars of
\nSaudi Arabian petrol dollars back into the U.S. economy, and that further
\ncemented the intimate relationship between the House of Saud and successive
\nU.S. administrations. Explain.<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Yes, it was a fascinating time. I remember well, you’re
\nprobably too young to remember, but I remember well in the early seventies
\nhow OPEC exercised this power it had, and cut back on oil supplies. We had
\ncars lined up at gas stations. The country was afraid that it was facing
\nanother 1929-type of crash\u00addepression; and this was unacceptable. So,
\nthey — the Treasury Department hired me and a few other economic hit men.
\nWe went to Saudi Arabia. We —<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: You’re actually called economic hit men –e.h.m.\u2019s?<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Yeah, it was a tongue-in-cheek term that we called ourselves.
\nOfficially, I was a chief economist. We called ourselves e.h.m.’s. It was
\ntongue-in-cheek. It was like, nobody will believe us if we say this, you
\nknow? And, so, we went to Saudi Arabia in the early seventies. We knew Saudi
\nArabia was the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the
\nsituation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House of Saud
\nagreed to send most of their petro-dollars back to the United States and
\ninvest them in U.S. government securities. The Treasury Department would use
\nthe interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi
\nArabia\u00adnew cities, new infrastructure\u00adwhich we\u2019ve done. And the House of
\nSaud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to
\nus, which they\u2019ve done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the
\nHouse of Saud in power as long as they did this, which we\u2019ve done, which is
\none of the reasons we went to war with Iraq in the first place. And in Iraq
\nwe tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi
\nArabia, but Saddam Hussein didn’t buy. When the economic hit men fail in
\nthis scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals. Jackals are
\nC.I.A.-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or
\nrevolution. If that doesn’t work, they perform assassinations. or try to. In
\nthe case of Iraq, they weren’t able to get through to Saddam Hussein. He
\nhad — His bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn\u2019t get
\nthrough to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and
\nthe jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who
\nare sent in to die and kill, which is what we\u2019ve obviously done in Iraq.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: Can you explain how Torrijos died?<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Omar Torrijos, the President of Panama. Omar Torrijos had
\nsigned the Canal Treaty with Carter much — and, you know, it passed our
\ncongress by only one vote. It was a highly contended issue. And Torrijos
\nthen also went ahead and negotiated with the Japanese to build a sea-level
\ncanal. The Japanese wanted to finance and construct a sea-level canal in
\nPanama. Torrijos talked to them about this which very much upset Bechtel
\nCorporation, whose president was George Schultz and senior council was
\nCasper Weinberger. When Carter was thrown out (and that\u2019s an interesting
\nstory\u00adhow that actually happened), when he lost the election, and Reagan
\ncame in and Schultz came in as Secretary of State from Bechtel, and
\nWeinberger came from Bechtel to be Secretary of Defense, they were extremely
\nangry at Torrijos — tried to get him to renegotiate the Canal Treaty and
\nnot to talk to the Japanese. He adamantly refused. He was a very principled
\nman. He had his problem, but he was a very principled man. He was an amazing
\nman, Torrijos. And so, he died in a fiery airplane crash, which was
\nconnected to a tape recorder with explosives in it, which — I was there. I
\nhad been working with him. I knew that we economic hit men had failed. I
\nknew the jackals were closing in on him, and the next thing, his plane
\nexploded with a tape recorder with a bomb in it. There’s no question in my
\nmind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most — many Latin American
\ninvestigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard
\nabout that in our country.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: So, where — when did your change your heart happen?<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced.
\nThe power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for
\nme. And, of course, I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I
\nwas chief economist. I was doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so
\non.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: How closely did you work with the World Bank?<\/p>\n
JOHN PERKINS: Very, very closely with the World Bank. The World Bank
\nprovides most of the money that\u2019s used by economic hit men, it and the
\nI.M.F. But when 9\/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had
\nto be told because what happened at 9\/11 is a direct result of what the
\neconomic hit men are doing. And the only way that we’re going to feel secure
\nin this country again and that we’re going to feel good about ourselves is
\nif we use these systems we\u2019ve put into place to create positive change
\naround the world. I really believe we can do that. I believe the World Bank
\nand other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally
\nintended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world.
\nHelp — genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people
\nstarving to death every day. We can change that.<\/p>\n
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins, I want to thank you very much for being with us.
\nJohn Perkins’ book is called, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.<\/p>\n
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