{"id":154178,"date":"2020-03-02T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=154178"},"modified":"2020-02-15T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T11:41:56","slug":"an-economic-hit-man-confesses-and-calls-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/03\/an-economic-hit-man-confesses-and-calls-to-action\/","title":{"rendered":"An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not \u201cplay the game&#8221; were assassinated or overthrown. He brings us up to date about the way the economic hit man system has spread from developing countries to the US, Europe, and the rest of the world and offers a strategy for turning this around<em>. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>\u201cEach of us,&#8221; <\/em>he says,<em> \u201ccan participate in this exciting revolution. We can transform a system that is consuming itself into extinction into one that is sustainable and regenerative.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0&amp;feature=emb_logo<br \/>\n<em><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">As Chief Economist at a major international consulting firm, John Perkins advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He worked directly with heads of state and CEOs of major companies. John\u2019s <\/span><\/em><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;\">Confessions of an Economic Hit Man<em> (70 weeks on the <\/em>New York Times<em> bestseller list) is a startling expos\u00e9 of international corruption. His <\/em>The Secret History of the American Empire<em>, also a <\/em>New York Times<em> bestseller, details the clandestine operations that created the world\u2019s first truly global empire. His <\/em>Hoodwinked<em> is a blueprint for a new form of global economics. The solutions are not \u201creturn to normal\u201d ones but to soar to new heights, away from predatory capitalism and into an era more transformative than the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. His writings detail specific steps each of us can take to create a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who did not \u201cplay the game&#8221; were assassinated or overthrown. He brings us up to date about the way the economic hit man system has spread from developing countries to the US, Europe, and the rest of the world and offers a strategy for turning this around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[232,550,1793,354,562,267,1126,1050,504,1792,95,70,126,921],"class_list":["post-154178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-capitalism","tag-corruption","tag-economic-hit-man","tag-economics","tag-finance","tag-geopolitics","tag-hegemony","tag-imperialism","tag-international-relations","tag-john-perkins","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-whistleblowing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}