As I wrote previously, I entered 2007 with a renewed commitment to create a stable, sustainable, and peaceful world. The weeks that have followed have strengthened my resolve. How about you? As more and more of you are becoming aware of the facts of our world, our march is gaining momentum.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man continues to be a catalyst for change. I am grateful to all of you that have used it to enlighten and awaken others around you. It means a great deal to hear of the ways you are using it across the globe. One demonstration of results of your work in spreading the word was in the November edition of Ode magazine (the one with Nelson Mandela on cover). They reported that they "contacted ten leading independent bookstores from all corners of the Earth and asked them to compile a list of their TOP 10 non-fiction bestsellers during the first six months of 2006. Only six books appear on the various lists more than once."
As I've also shared with you, I spent a good portion of last year writing my new book that will be released in June 2007: The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption zeroes in in on hot spots around the world. It draws on interviews with other hit men, jackals, reporters, government officials, and activists and examines the current geopolitical crisis. It affirms that instability is the norm—it’s clear that the world we’ve created is dangerous and no longer sustainable. The book explores the compelling questions: How did we get here? Who’s responsible? What good have we done and at what cost? And what can we do to change things for the next generations? In addressing these questions, I reveal the secret history behind the events that have defined our world, including:
· The current Latin American Revolution and its lessons for democracy
· How the “Defeats” in Vietnam and Iraq benefited big business
· The role of Israel as Fortress America in the Middle East
· Tragic repercussions of the IMF’s “Asian Economic Collapse”
· US blunders in Tibet, Congo, Lebanon, and Venezuela
· Jackal (CIA operatives) forays to assassinate democratic presidents
From the U.S. military in Iraq to infrastructure development in Indonesia, from Peace Corps volunteers in Africa to Jackals in the Indian Ocean, my book exposes a conspiracy of corruption that has fueled instability and anti-Americanism around the globe. The message sounds the alarm, yet meant to be hopeful by providing a compassionate plan to re-imagine our world. The book releases in June 2007.
I am optimistic about what we can do together!
John Perkins
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Labor is the only variable in the global economic arena. Everything else in the economic day differ in only small degrees.
Free Trade is about moving production from place to place based on the cheapest labor markets of the world down to wage slave and even child labor. One of the most important elements in John Perkin's book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is the statistics surrounding the increase in poverty around the world for many years while Globalist Free Traders tell it isn't so. Free Trade and Globalization have been a failure for years. The U.S. Federal Government itself sponsored the moving of factories outside the USA starting in 1956 and the process speeded up with the passing of NAFTA and GATT trade agreements. A working poor class has been created in the USA and a impoverished working class in other countries across the globe. It is a system built of sand. It is a house of cards that soon will fall. Basically because soon the working poor in countries like the USA will not be able to afford to buy even the cheapest goods from other countries and the impoverished workers will not advanced to afford to buy the very things they make.
Sooner or later, the workers of the world will respond to this more dramatically and it is obvious we should all be preparing for this rather than expect the Globalists to reform.
Workers do not have any voice in the process of Globalization and Free Trade and history tells us what happens when this is the case.
Globalists forget that Globalization centralizes many things and workers will become more as one too in massive numbers. Currently, the Globalist Free Traders have separatism as their ally but this will not prevail.
Adam Smith held labor as something sacred and the core of all societies. Nothing will stop this from this happening. We should be preparing for the post-Globalization era accordingly especially since the stakes are so high for all levels in a society.
View the Cross 9/11 Tangle of Terror artwork by Ray Tapajna asking who will now untangle the terror Globalization and Free Trade have bred at http://tapsearch.com/tapartnews http://tapsearch.com/flatworld/ http://tapsearch.com/globalization
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Posted by: Tapsearch Com Editor | July 14, 2007 at 02:26 PM
Bizarre Politics traces the New World Order and asks is this really the New World of Disorder. It covers other issues relating to the Dysfunctional Globalists. It is suggested that The Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins should be read before or while reading The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman to see how Friedman from the New York Times reverses cause and effect. See http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/the-unetted/
Posted by: Bizarre Politics Editor | November 18, 2007 at 07:20 PM