John Perkins (Author)

John Perkins (2009)

John Perkins (* 28. January 1945 in Hanover , New Hampshire ) is a US -American political activist and writer . His best-known book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man , was number one on the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks . It is an attempt to substantiate the alleged worldwide neocolonialism of the USA in the form of a description of the secret service activities of the USA from the perspective of an insider.

Life

Perkins attended Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont (New England) in the 1960s . In the 1970s he worked for the management consultancy Chas. T. Main employed.

Perkins is also the chairman of Dream Change , "a global grassroots movement of people of diverse cultures and origins who advocate a change in consciousness and a sustainable lifestyle for individuals and the global community."

In the documentary Zeitgeist: Addendum , Perkins describes the role of the USA in various political changes of power using the examples of Iran and Central America.

Perkins made a brief appearance in the documentary Let's Make Money by Erwin Wagenhofer , which was released in 2008 .

Economic Hit Man

→ Main article : Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Perkins confesses in his book of the same name, as the former chief economist of the strategy consultancy Chas. T. Main agent of the US National Security Agency (NSA). According to his account, he was a "Economic Hit Man" (STM; translated as "economic hit man ").

He was therefore hired by Einar Greve, an employee of the management consultancy, whom Perkins describes as an NSA liaison. Greve has denied this. At the beginning of his career, according to Perkins, he was trained by a pretty, manipulative advisor as one of many EHMs who were supposed to promote the "hegemony" of US corporations.

Perkins explains in his book that his job as EHM was to help US intelligence agencies and multinational corporations to entice and, if necessary, blackmail foreign heads of state to serve US foreign policy and to do lucrative jobs for the US economy procure. Essentially, it was a matter of obtaining higher US loans for states than they could economically cope with; Due to their insolvency brought about in this way, the USA had extensive areas of influence, u. a. for the extraction of raw materials, secured in the respective countries. Heads of state who did not want to get involved in such deals were cleared out of the way by the US with the help of secret services. In his book, Perkins explicitly names the former presidents of Panama and Ecuador , Omar Torrijos and Jaime Roldós , who were both killed in plane crashes in 1981.

Works

• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. ISBN 978-0-452-28708-2 ; German translation: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Riemann, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-570-50066-8
• The Secret History of the American Empire , ISBN 978-0-525-95015-8
• World power without scruples: The dark side of globalization - How the USA systematically exploits developing countries. Redline Wirtschaft, Heidelberg 2007, 328 pages, ISBN 978-3-636-01448-1
• Steven Hiatt (ed.): A Game as Old as Empire. The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption. Introduction by John Perkins, 2007, ISBN 978-1-57675-395-8
• The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. ISBN 978-1626566743 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler; 2016

Perkins has also written about indigenous cultures and shamanism , including in the following books:

• The Stress-Free Habit. 1989. German (translated by Manfred Miethe ): O-Naami: Life without stress. Integral, Wessobrunn 1992. ISBN 978-3-89304-144-2
• Psychonavigation: Techniques for Travel Beyond Time , 1990, ISBN 089281800X , German (translated by Manfred Miethe): Psychonavigation. How you determine your own life. Integral, Wessobrunn 1993. ISBN 3-89304-150-8
• The World Is as You Dream It. Shamanic teachings From the Amazon and Andes. 1994. German (translated by Manfred Miethe): And the dream becomes a world. Integral, Wessobrunn 1995. ISBN 978-3-89304-145-9
• Shapeshifting: Shamanic Techniques for Global and Personal Transformation , ISBN 978-0-89281-663-7
• The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change , ISBN 978-0-8308-3722-9

See also

• Criticism of globalization
• Arundhati Roy , Noam Chomsky , Ward Churchill

Web links

• Literature by and about John Perkins in the catalog of the German National Library
• John Perkins website
• Dream Change website
• "A hit man Repents" , The Guardian , 28 January 2006, review
• “Confessions of an Economic Killer” , 3sat , March 22, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ economichitman.com ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Page 1. (pdf .; 107 kB)  
2. ↑ Dream Change website ( memento of the original from January 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Video: Zeitgeist: Addendum, by Peter Joseph 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.