In this short clip from Talking Stick TV (airs Wednesday nights at 8:00 p.m. Pacific on Seattle Community Media), John Perkins described that Islam is not religion of anger but in contrary is a compassionate and loving religion. He is the Author of Bestseller book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" a book about his story when he was an "Economic Hitman".
John Perkins (b. January 28, 1945 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an author.
He was a Peace Corps Volunteer
in Ecuador from 1968–1970 and this experience
launched him in the world of economics and writing. His best known book is Confessions of
an Economic Hit Man (2004),
which claims that Third World countries are "neo-colonalized" by what
Perkins describes as a cabal of corporations, banks,
and the United States
government. Critics such as columnist Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post reacted
sharply to Perkins' book[1]: "This man is a frothing conspiracy theorist, a
vainglorious peddler of nonsense, and yet his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,
is a runaway bestseller." Mallaby, who spent 13 years writing for the
London Economist and
wrote a critically well-received biography of World Bank chief James Wolfensohn,[2] holds
that Perkins' conception of international finance is "largely a
dream" and that his "basic contentions are flat wrong."[1]
Biography
Perkins graduated from the Tilton School in 1963. He subsequently attended Middlebury
College for two years
before dropping out due to lackluster grades. He later earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in business administration from Boston University in 1968. He spent the 1970s working
for the Boston strategic-consulting
firm Chas. T. Main, where he
was employed after first being screened by the National Security Agency (NSA) and subsequently hired by Einar
Greve,[3] a member of the firm (and alleged NSA
liaison, a claim which Greve has denied).
In the 1980s Perkins founded and directed a
successful independent energy company. In the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,
Perkins states that he suspects the success of his company was due to
'coincidences' orchestrated by those appreciative of his silence about the work
he did as an economic hit man.
Perkins and his role as an economic hitman is
the main theme in part II of the movie Zeitgeist:
Addendum, released in October 2008. He also appears in Boris Malagurski's
documentary film The Weight of
Chains, released in December 2010, and the documentary movie Let's Make Money (in German) by the Austrian director Erwin Wagenhofer,
released October 2008.
John Perkins profile are taken from Wikipedia.
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