[url=http://www.countercurrents.org/us-perkins111104.htm]Confessions of an economic hit man[/url] John Perkins
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[b]Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire.[/b] To bring -- to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we’ve been very successful. We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built [b]primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men.[/b] I was very much a part of that.
The vicious empire has managed to do exactly what it accused the Soviets(the evil empire) of trying to do wrt world domination. Corporate cannibalism has spread to and infected just about every part of the world today. The only problem is if the other 85 percent of humanity adopts our way of life, we'll strip world resources bare in nothing flat and choke on the pollution. They lied to us constantly throughout the cold war for the sake of pushing a monstrous political and economic ideology on the whole world. Consumption economies based on consumerism will be mankind's [i]"road to serfdom"[/i], and scientists are telling us it's a one-way ride at some point.