Economic hitman's author new book: Hoodwinked

[Ichingcarpenter]

How Big Multinational Corporations Hire the CIA and NSA To Kill People and Nations



The former NSA agent reveals how big multinational corporations hired the CIA and the NSA to murder people and nations during the course of his career.

A few of the best read I had a few years ago were books by John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World, and recently also his newest book Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded–and What We Need to Do to Remake Them. His first book (Confessions of an EHM) was the reason why I became interested in what they call “conspiracy theories” which I don’t believe are only “theories”. Theories don’t kill. Theories don’t leave nations in bondage of debt, while a few families in the whole world grow ultra wealthy. To me, as it is also to John Perkins, they are conspiracy facts.

John Perkins was initially recruited by the National Security Agency when he was still in business school in Boston. He had to undergo a very long set of interviews with lie detector tests and personality tests. In the interview they were able to draw the conclusion that he would make a good economic hit man which is basically a con-artist. Apparently the NSA found the three most common weaknesses in human beings which would be the best doors for them to enter and hook him up to do dirty jobs for them. These weaknesses are sex, power and money. Perkins was tested and interviewed and it came out that he had all the three weaknesses in him. That was how they got to him and hired him to do the dirty jobs for them.

During the years of working for them, Perkins was close and well-known to organizations such as the CIA, National Security Agency, the World Bank and USAID. All the EHMs were well known to them but not to the general public. Perkins tells Lew Rockwell in a recent interview that the primary job of both the CIA and the National Security Agency is to serve multinational corporate interests for giant corporations that are not even US based anymore such as Halliburton. However the CIA and the NSA devoted tremendous amount of effort, money and energy to doing things that would help corporate interests abroad. These include making sure that the right countries have the resources that the corporations want, bribing them, making sure that they’re staying in position, and even arranging for them to be killed if they stand up against the corporations.

In his mind, John Perkins sees the world currently in a time where it is completely controlled by corporations. He envisions huge clouds drifting around the planet and these clouds are the big corporations. They don’t know national borders. They don’t follow any specific set of laws. They form partnerships with the Chinese, but at the same time with the Taiwanese. Or with the Israelis and at the same time with the Arab countries. Whoever has the resources they need, they are willing to partner with them.



Perkins mentions the USAID to Lew Rockwell being one of the organizations that knew what the EHMs were doing. He clarifies that the most common opinion of the general public regarding the USAID being a charity organization is totally erroneous. He said, “To think of the USAID as a charity board organization is totally erroneous. For the most part US foreign aid in most countries are really out there to serve the interest of big corporations. There are really only a few US aid organizations out there that are helping in catastrophes such as tsunami’s or something like that. The USAID that we are sending to other countries like that are really there to serve our big corporations. That’s just the job that the USAID, the Export-Import Bank, the World Bank and other organizations is assigned to do.”

Read The Rest…


http://www.amazon.com/Hoodwinked-Economic-Reveals-Financial-Imploded/dp/0307589927


I just finished it and its a page turner.

[Samantha]

1. Thank you posting your review of Perkins' new book

When I read, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" I thought it was destined to become an instant American classic. It stirred a memory from my teenage years of being discovered in the basement by my conservative father reading "The Ugly American", an event which put me in a lot of hot water. During that time frame, "The Ugly American" became one of the most important books I had ever read, and I believe "Confessions" in this day and time rises to the same level for many people.

Another very interesting trait the CIA screens for in initial screenings is a willingness to lie. We hear so much about their employees having to take lie detector tests periodically, but we always assume that is to keep them in line. It might be safer to say the CIA needs to keep its personnel on point.

Some of the pursuits outlined in the book I found not only to be outrageous in purpose and design, but truly sad when simply viewed as acts purported by the Government that rules us. These things are being done in the name of the American people, and many Americans are totally blind to the magnitude of the scope of the corruption.

Perkins, like John Dean, is a hero to me. His book did read like a confessional; he wanted to admit his wrongdoings, I believe, because in the end that is the only way he could find some sort of therapeutic relief. He knew in doing so he was putting his life at risk, but he did it anyway.

Sam

[indurancevile]

8. why didn't your father want you to read the ugly american?

[Samantha]

10. My father just didn't want me to read this book

he objected to the book being on the list my Problems of Democracy class had on its permissible selection of books on which to read and write a book report. He complained to the school that the book was un-American, and I found out just a few years ago went so far as to take his objections to the school board. There was a hearing, and the book was left on the list.

Once my father complained to the school (I did not know this at the time or I would not have had the courage to go back), I faced a lot of heat the next day in my POD class. While the teacher didn't name the student (me), he totally went off on parents who interfered with the way high school civics-type classes were taught. I almost died in my chair.

At that point, I realized I was in a no-win situation. At the end of this controversy, either my POD teacher (who I tremendously admired) would reject my report and perhaps give me a failing grade or I would become alienated from my father (who I tremendously loved). My father had been reared in the very conservative state of Tennessee (otherwise known as the volunteer state because so many of its citizens step up and volunteer to serve in the military whenever there is a conflict), surrounded by God-fearing Southern Baptists. Realizing my position, I decided on the approach I would take: I would simply read the book and with the best objectivity I could muster, write the best report I thought appropriate. In other words, I simply surrendered my fate to the purity of my own independent judgment.

I finished the report, turned it in and waited for the "verdict." I received an A- on it (and A's were almost impossible to come by in that particular teacher's class). I was satisfied.

I gave a copy of the report to my father and asked him if he wanted to read it. He declined. And as I said above, I found out only pretty recently how far he carried his protest (without my knowledge). My step-mother told me.

Believe it or not, I have kept that hand-written book report, complete with the teacher's comments written in the margins, kept as in 44 years. As trivial as this might seem to anyone reading this post, I realized at that time this was a true character-forming event in my life. How true that turned out to be.

My father and I continued from that point out arguing passionately about both religion and politics. We never agreed. But before anyone here sends me any flames about this man, I want you to know he was a victim of his upbringing and environment just as many still are living in the South, but his views were extremely sincere, not like the Tea Party members we see today. Despite our differences, we learned to love and cherish each other as family members and had an extremely loving relationship the rest of his life. I think that statement alone is a tribute to how we can live and interact with family, friends and loved ones and disagree passionately about positions on just about anything, including sexuality, abortions, politics, climate change, whatever, and still preserve a respect and appreciation for love of the individual. Some other time, I will tell you about his wonderful, magnanimous contributions to society, performed simply out of his love for the lesser man.

Sam

[indurancevile]

12. actually, i think the teacher was out of line if he told the class that a parent had complained &

then ranted about it.

even if he didn't id the parent.

[malaise]

2. Thanks - will order

Rec

[starroute]

3. And for additional reading...

Smedley Butler, War is a Racket
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

Steve Kangas, The Origins of the Overclass
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/the-origins-of-the-overclass-2/

[EFerrari]

4. I was working on a piece about the attempted assassination of

Rafael Correa last year and contacted John for a comment. The piece didn't get written but at the time, everyone in the corporate English language media was calling Correa hysterical. I don't think it was even reported up here that two of his bodyguards were killed during the incident. I was going on that and an internal report that said his national police had been infiltrated by CIA.

I asked him about American involvement. John said, he's at the center of the biggest environmental case ever brought, what do you think?

[pscot]

5. I read "Confessions"

and was not impressed. I think the guy is a scam artist who has figured out a writing formula that pays off. His confessions confessed to nothing much that couldn't have been gleaned from press reports. It was a fan dance, but the fan never revealed anything of real significance.

[EFerrari]

6. The level of specificity in "Hitman" could have been greater.

But Jaime Roldos' daughter corroborated his story on film so that part of his story checks out. Imo, "Hitman" had an editor problem because the editor seemed to go for the sexy rather than for the specific. When you talk to John Perkins, he gets right into the weeds if you ask him to or that has been my experience, anyway.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. I noticed my posts got a lot hits

some noms but it served its purpose
on how many many read or looked at the thread.

[EFerrari]

9. Yep. Well done.

:hi:

[Samantha]

11. I recommended it

and was happy to do so. Keep up the good work.

Sam