Today we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forces driving corporate globalization. In his first book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to strong-arm leader in the creation of favorable policies of the U.S. government and corporations what he calls the "corporatocracy." John Perkins says he helped by giving them more the U.S. cheat poor countries around the world, billions of dollarsMoney than they pay back, and then eventually take up their economies. John Perkins has just been with her second book on the subject. It's called "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals and the Truth about Global Corruption. John Perkins joins us now in the firehouse studio. Now, before we go further," Economic killer "for those who have not heard it described, not to speak of themselves as what you mean? Perkins: Well, actually, I thinkE 'fair to say that since World War II, we economic hit men have managed to create the first truly global empire in the world, and we did it mostly without the military, unlike other empires in history. We have done it through economics very subtly. We work many different ways, but perhaps the most common is that we are a third world country who want to identify our company resources such as oil, then arrange a huge credit to the country by the World Bank or its...
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