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Guest: John Perkins
Topic: Economic control over 3rd
world countires.
Listen to Interview on
Aug 18, 2009
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John Perkins
John Perkins
was an Economic Hit Man, John's job was to
convince Third World countries to accept enormous
loans for infrastructure development—loans that were
much larger than needed—and to guarantee that the
development projects were contracted to U.S.
corporations like Halliburton and Bechtel. Once
these countries were saddled with huge debts, the
U.S. government and the international aid agencies
allied with it were able to control these economies
and to ensure that oil
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