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John Perkins, né le 28 janvier 1945 à Hanover

✵ 28. janvier 1945
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“ce que ces hommes voulaient: une Amérique qui contrôlerait le monde et toutes ses ressources, un monde qui obéirait aux ordres de cette Amérique, une force militaire américaine qui ferait appliquer les règlements définis par l'Amérique, et un système banquier et commercial international qui soutiendrait l'Amérique comme PDG de l'empire global.”

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“La subtilité des moyens utilisés pour créer cet empire moderne ferait rougir de honte les centurions romains, les conquistadors espagnols et les puissances coloniales européennes (…) Aujourd'hui on ne porte plus l'épée. On ne porte ni armure ni costume distinctif (…) c'est ainsi que le système fonctionne. Ils commettent rarement des actes illégaux, car le système lui-même repose sur le subterfuge et est légitime par définition.”

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“Nous préférons croire au mythe selon lequel la société humaine, après des milliers d'années d'évolution, a finalement créé un système économique idéal, plutôt que de reconnaître qu'il s'agit simplement d'une idée fausse érigée en parole d'évangile.”

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John Perkins: Citations en anglais

“The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are”

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John Perkins livre Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Source: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“As soon as one of the anti-American presidents is elected, one of us goes in and says, “Hey, congratulations Mr. President. Now that you are president, I just want to tell you that I can make you very, very rich, you and your family. It’s several million dollars in this pocket, if you play the game our way. If you decide not to, over in this pocket, I’ve got a gun with a bullet with your name on it, in case you decide to keep your campaign promises and throw us out. Sell our oil companies your oil real cheap, or vote with us at the next UN vote, or send troops in support of ours to some place in the world such as Iraq”, and in that way, we have managed to build a world empire with very few people actually knowing that we have done this.”

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John Perkins

Zeitgeist Addendum (2008)

“ We used many techniques, but probably the most common is that we will go to a country that has resources that our corporations covet- like oil- and we will arrange a huge loan to that country from an organization like the World Bank or one of its sisters. But almost all of the money goes to U. S. corporations, not to the country itself, corporations like Bechtel and Halliburton, General Motors, General Electric, these types of organizations, and they build huge infrastructure projects in the country- power plants, highways, ports, industrial parks- things that serve the very rich and seldom even reach the poor.In fact the poor suffer because the loans have to be repaid, and they are huge loans, and the repayment of them means that poor won’t get education, health, and other social services and the country is left holding a huge debt, by intention. We go back, we economic hitmen, to this country and say, “Look, you owe us a lot of money. You can’t repay your debts, so give us a pound of flesh”.”

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John Perkins

Zeitgeist Addendum (2008)

“Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. They funnel money from the World Bank, the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign “aid” organizations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. They play a game as old as empire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globalization. I should know; I was an EHM.”

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John Perkins livre Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004)

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