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John Perkins

John Perkins is the author of The New York Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hitman and, most recently, Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded and What We Need to Do to Remake Them. Perkins just recently published The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

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Dec 10, 2017
Latest from John Perkins
Op-Ed
Economy & Labor

We Must Reject Economic Cannibalism

We must move away from the current cannibalizing global economy towards a regenerative one or face extinction.
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John Perkins,
Truthout
July 24, 2016
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Excerpt

Former Economic Hit Man Returns to Take on the “Death Economy“

The economic hit men system is fueled by something far more dangerous than a global conspiracy. It is driven by concepts that have become accepted as gospel.
by
John Perkins,
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
March 10, 2016
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News

Occupy the Dam: Brazil’s Indigenous Uprising

In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the worldu2019s third-largest damu2014by dismantling it. Hereu2019s what they can teach us about standing up to power.
by
John Perkins,
Yes! Magazine
July 28, 2012
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