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Seven years ago when I blindly stumbled into the world of precious metals on the World Wide Web, I had no idea that it would change the course of my life forever. Not only was the Internet a window into the real world that the ‘powers that be’ didn’t want us to have, one of its side effects for me was to re-ignite my interest in reading.


From surfing the net and lurking on the PM forums, I discovered that there were countless books on the “powers that be” and these “New World Order” types. It was a couple of years before I shelled out the money and bought a few. Since dipping my toe into the world of reading, I now have at least one book on the go all the time.


If I had to narrow my growing collection of books down to five, they would be as follows:


1) The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin


2) The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline by James Perloff


3) Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley


   4) A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin


   5) Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins


In this short essay, I’m going to concentrate on the last book, where John Perkins spelled out how he was hired by the American Empire to do its bidding in third world countries. I will quote the liner notes in their entirety…


In this riveting personal story, John Perkins tells of his own inner journey from willing servant of empire to impassioned advocate for the rights of oppressed people. Covertly recruited by the United States National Security Agency and on the payroll of an international consulting firm, he traveled the world—to Indonesia, Panama, Ecuador, Columbia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and other strategically important countries. His job was to implement policies that promoted the interests of the U.S. corporatocracy (a coalition of government, banks, and corporations) while professing to alleviate poverty—policies that alienated many nations and ultimately led to September 11 and growing anti-Americanism.


Perkins’ story illuminates just how far he and his colleagues—self-described as economic hit men—were willing to go. He explains, for instance, how he helped to implement a secret scheme that funneled billions of Saudi Arabian petrodollars back into the U.S. economy, and that further cemented the intimate relationship between the Islamic fundamentalist House of Saud and a succession of American administrations. Perkins reveals the hidden mechanics of imperial control behind some of the most dramatic events in recent history, such as the fall of the Shah of Iran, the death of Panamanian president Omar Torrijos, and the U.S. invasions of Panama and Iraq

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which many people warned Perkins not to write, exposes the little known inner workings of a system that fosters globalization and leads to the impoverishment of millions of people across the planet. It is a compelling story that also offers hope and a vision for realizing the American dream of a just and compassionate world that will bring us greater security.”


This is one of the most amazing books that I have ever read and I would recommend it to anyone.


The reason that I’m writing about this book again (I’ve mentioned it most favourably in a couple of my prior essays) is because of what I read in Bill Murphy’s MIDAS commentary over at LeMetropleCafe on Monday, January 29th.


Actually, it wasn’t Mr. Murphy who spoke of it, rather one of Bill’s many daily contributors…Jesse. The author of that book, John Perkins, had reappeared in a videotaped speech and Jesse had provided the URL.


If you haven’t read the book, then let the liner notes above be your springboard to the speech that John Perkins gave to the Veterans for Peace national convention in Seattle, Washington in August of 2006. The speech is in three parts…of which the first two parts, totaling about fifty-three minutes, are the most dramatic. The third part is a question and answer session.


The author also briefly touches on why the U.S.A. went off the gold standard when it did and immediately went to a dollar backed by oil…the infamous petrodollar.


So, if you really (and I mean really) want to see part of the inner workings of the American Empire (and the corporatocracy that runs it) up close and personal…take the time to listen to what Mr. Perkins has to say. Here’s the link… http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=John+Perkins+and+VFP+National+Convention&hl=en


Back at the beginning, I mentioned that my #1 book was “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G. Edward Griffin. Surprisingly enough, Ed Griffin has done a review of John Perkins book, and it too is very much worth reading. He labels the book “dangerous” and in the same breath says that it’s a “must read”. This incredible review is hyperlinked here.


If you have any further interest in what this author has to say on this subject, Mr. Perkins was interviewed by Jim Puplava over at www.financialsense.com on May 7, 2005; shortly after his book was published. That interview is worth listening to as well…and you can do so at the hyperlink right here.


Once you’ve had your fill of watching and listening, I urge you to pass this essay along to anyone you feel might learn something from it.




Ed Steer

Director

Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee

www.GATA.org



GATA is a civil rights and educational organization based in the United States and tax-exempt under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Its e-mail dispatches are free, and you can subscribe at www.GATA.org. GATA is grateful for financial contributions, which are federally tax-deductible in the United States.








 







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