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US Foreign Policy:Conspiracy Bribery Murder & War by GREG SZYMANSKI

US Foreign Policy:Conspiracy Bribery Murder & War

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ckals inside the U.S. government's foreign hit squads recently warned at least six of the majormocratic leaders of South American countries, in no uncertain terms, either "play ball or be killed,

cording to John Perkins, best-selling author, whistle blower and self-proclaimed "economic hit ma

erkins recently shocked America with a startling account about how government-sponsored mafia-l

ts and economic bribery are a mainstay in U. S. foreign policy, used as dirty tools in order to "get w

wants when it wants" no matter what the cost.

Right now our government's heavy-handed pressure, applied by hired jackals, is worse today in Lati

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merica then it was when I worked applying pressure to foreign leaders years ago," said Perkins in a

lephone conversation this week from his Florida home while recovering from colon surgery and

eparing to go on the road for an American and European speaking tour.

e is presently working on a second book, due to be released next year, a book attempting to offer fu

lutions about how to the reverse Americas destructive empire building tactics, including economic

ibery and assassinations.

We have the resources and we are the last powerful country able to change the destructive course be

ken now," added Perkins. "I am optimistic and believe we will reverse the course being taken now,

herwise why would I be writing these books."

is first huge success, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," released last year and selling over

00,000 copies, immediately became a New York Times best-seller. His shocking book, a must-read

yone who wants to know why America is hated around the world, reveals how foreign governmen

e intimidated and uncooperative leaders assassinated while the U.S. masquerades as a benevolent

nefactor.

or more than 15 years, Perkins, the former corporate consultant, acting as a third party intermediary

tween the U.S. and foreign leaders, lived in a dangerous "political underworld" of deceit, bribery, l

arking and murder while advancing Americas shady foreign policy interests.

erkins finally went public, detailing how he helped the U.S. "gets what it wants" by using a mafia-s

ctics, after being guilt-ridden from taking a half million dollars from the Stoner-Webster Corp. to k

ent and then being haunted by the memory of the 9/11 tragedy. He adds 9/11 is the result of foreig

taliation based on years of U.S. aggression.

is book clearly shows the ugly side of America's empire building, providing a firsthand account wh

e "jackals" in the CIA and what he calls the corporatocracy were responsible for the assassinatio

President Omar Torrijos of Panama and President Jaime Roldas of Ecuador.

erkins said the same sort of mafia-like tactics are taking place today in countries like Argentina, Ch

razil, Ecuador, Uruguay and Venezuela, citing the recent coup ousting President Gutierrez of Ecuad

an example after the former leader cut a one-sided deal with President Bush against the interests o

s own people.

One month after he was elected, Gutierrez met with Bush in Washington," said Perkins. "He was

iginally elected by a mandate of the people based on an anti-American and anti-globalist platform.

ter getting in office and being pressured by Washington, he agreed to a deal whereby Ecuador gets

out 10 percent of the profits from their oil and natural resources while 90 percent goes to American

mpanies and to pay back debt owed to the World Bank."

When word leaked out in his country what happened, the people of Ecuador were furious. They ous

utierrez, replacing him with the Vice President, but it is still up in the air whether anything will rea



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ange there. Put yourself in their shoes. The pressure we exert is outrageous and the leaders are

sentially offered millions of dollars or a bullet in the head, with the jackals reminding them of how

her victims of obvious assassinations, like President Torrijos of Panama and President Roldas of

cuador, were dealt with in the past.

erkins said the American people need to be made aware, since the media is ignoring the problem, th

ajority of the Latin American countries in recent years are putting democratically elected leaders in

fice, all running on anti-American platforms. Claiming hatred runs deep among the Latin Americanople, Perkins said leaders are finally starting to stand-up against American aggression due to grow

sistance at home.

erkins used President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela as a perfect example of how U.S. government-

onsored hit squads are attempting to kill him for not agreeing to one-sided loans which would

entually bankrupt his country while turning over all of Venezuelas infrastructure, like water, gas a

ower, powerful American owned and operated corporations.

eferencing Perkins' book as evidence of U.S. attempts on his life, Chavez is the most outspoken of

e leaders who is bucking the American system, even publicly saying recently that he wouldnt set f

n U.S. soil until the people of America liberated themselves from Bushs tyrannical rule.

havez has also publicly accused Bush of trying to have him killed for not "doing business as usual"

hich means rich American corporations profit while his countrymen starve. Venezuela has long bee

rget on the U.S. imperialistic map, since it has large oil reserves and is the fourth largest oil exporte

e United States, making it a prime target for the Bush administrations lopsided and heavy-handed

reign policy approach.

ast week Chavez also suspended all cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement agency, accusing ents of spying and espionage. Further, Chavez has threatened to discontinue U.S. oil shipments and

ashington observers verify Perkins claims that much of Latin America is rallying around Chavez

coming increasingly discontented with Washingtons undiplomatic policies toward the region and

strust with the Bush administration in general.

The Latin American people are obviously saying dont meddle with us, but the media and the

overnment are keeping the real truth from the American people," said Perkins, citing a conspiracy

mong large corporate media owners, wealthy international bankers and the government in manipula

ublic opinion and the news for their own globalist agenda.

erkins also cites his wildly popular book as another example of media suppression. Although his bo

s hit the all the best seller lists, he has been relegated to discussing it in the alternative media, sayin

has systematically been silenced by the major networks and newspapers, not granting him intervie

bothering to discuss the book.

hile CNN recently gave a pro Bush administration author with a relatively obscure book 20 minute

r time telling the public how Iran posed an imminent nuclear threat, Perkins has never once been as



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appear on CNN.

e also has never been asked to appear or be interviewed on other major networks, forcing him to te

s story on CSPAN, including outlets like Public Broadcasting Radio as well as print and internet

agazines like The American Free Press and the Arctic Beacon.

This is a big story in itself," added Perkins. "Here I have a best-selling book with truthful, importan

d controversial issues needing to be dealt with, and the corporate-driven media has seen fit to ignoe and keep my story from the American people. If anyone is going to save this democracy, it is not

ineless mainstream media, but people in the alternative press and on the internet who have had the

urage in the face of much adversity to expose the truth."

earching for reasons for telling his story and trying to explain to the American people why he becam

histle blower, he added:

wanted and needed to expose what was going on. Most Americans have no idea. I think that what

ve is a world empire that's controlled by a few men I call the corporatocracy. These are the heads o

e big banks, the corporations and the government. You now they jump across these lines and it is vngerous, very undemocratic. MacNamara was a good example. He was President of Ford and then

came Secretary of Defense and then President of the World Bank. Today we've got Dick Cheney

ho's basically the same picture. This has been going on for a long time and it not simply a republica

sue but it goes across party lines.

think our aggressive position of bringing other countries to their knees has created a tremendous

onomic imbalance where now out of the 100 largest economies in the world, 52 are corporations a

of those are American. Here we have 5% of the worlds population reaching out like a giant octop

d sucking in 25% or more of the worlds resources.

But it's not really 5% of the worlds population or the American people. It's really 1% of our popula

ntrolling more than 90 % of the wealth while the rest of us support them through taxes, our purcha

rough our silence and through going along with the system."

aying the imbalance of resource consumption can not be transferred to emerging countries like Chin

d others without having devastating effects, the problem is thatthe Bush administration is clinging

e old ways.

With the appointments of Paul Wolfowitz as President of the World Bank and John Bolton in the

nited Nations, Bush is telling the world that the bank is a not an international entity, but an Americ

ne used to advance only our interests," said Perkins about the financial institution which is likely to

orse with its policies of saddling tremendous debt on third world countries in order to insure allegia

American imperialism.

oncerning the recent public announcements made by Bush about third world debt forgiveness in 18

untries, Perkins said it is a "complete sham" as the real motive is to forgive debt put at the same tim

ake it contingent on large American corporate interests taking over the gas, water, power, educatio



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d telephone systems of the countries involved.

aying the debt forgiveness initiative is just another clear example of American economic blackmail

ork, he claims the poor people of the developing countries are the ones that really suffer at the expe

corporate greed.

oncerning this problem as well as the increase of world-wide terrorism, Perkins offered his solution

The only way we are going to get security and stop terrorism is to address and stop the problem of

0,000 people every day dying from hunger world wide. We need to address and solve the problem o

ughly 30,000 people, mostly children, dying from curable diseases every day.

There are more than 2 billion impoverished people in the world today. These are staggering number

at need to be addressed because as long as there is extreme poverty, there will always be hatred,

sentment and terrorism."

nd it's the heavy-handed games played by the American government, often times bankrupting third

orld countries causing poverty, starvation and death that Perkins deals with his hard-hitting book.

ow the "game is played" provides the main thrust of Perkins book and his role as the government's

conomic hit man" provides the credibility behind the shocking details. Page by page, every step of

ay, he portrays America as a greedy villain, never taking "no" for an answer when it comes to rapin

untry of its wealth and natural resources.

n Indonesia, Panama, South America, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, the U.S. has used the same syste

economic intimidation, assassination and then ultimately war as a last resort to get what it wants,"

id Perkins.

erkins remembers first recruited by the Boston consulting firm of Chas T. Main in 1971 after a two

ar stint in the Peace Corp. The firm worked closely with the National Security Agency and CIA,

cruiting Perkins for his knowledge of languages while working in Ecuador.

fter being trained and given his first assignment in Indonesia, Perkins describes his 10 year tenure w

e consulting firm as "technically legal, but morally and ethically bankrupt."

ssentially, no matter where he traveled or what leader he was hired to manipulate, the modus operan

as the same. Perkins would meet with a leader of a targeted country, encouraging him to accept a laan for an inflated project that both the CIA and the leader knew the country could not afford.

hen the loan was accepted, usually through U.S. connections at The World Bank, the money would

ansferred to a bank in the U.S. and then funneled back to U.S. companies through massive construc

d engineering projects.

erkins' job was to provide inflated loan estimates, saddling the underdeveloped country with a mass

bt, impossible to repay and leaving the country at the mercy of the U.S. to dictate repayment terms



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hese terms often times included the right to construct a strategically important military base, a favo

N. vote in support of U.S. policy or cheap access and usage to a countrys natural resources.

Once the third world country was economically indebted to the U.S., the CIA would then have its

ooks into manipulating the course and direction of the countrys political agenda," said Perkins.

erkins added that if this type of loan was arranged between private parties, it would be called extort

ut in the international arena its simply dismissed as economic development.

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