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John Perkins
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Born
in Hanover, New Hampshire, The United StatesWebsite
http://www.johnperkins.org
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History, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
Member Since
November 2015
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John Perkins is an activist and author. As a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, Perkins says that he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinational corporations cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
However, after several years struggling internally over the role he was playing in crippling foreign economies, he quit his consulting job. In the 1980s Perkins founded and directed a successful independent energy company, which he subsequently sold. Since then he has been heavily involved with non-profit organizations in Ecuador and around the world. He continu
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John Perkins is an author and activist whose 10 books on global intrigue, shamanism, and transformation including "Touching the Jaguar," "Shapeshifting" and the classic "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 70 weeks, sold over 2 million copies and are published in at least 35 languages. As chief economist at a major consulting firm, John advised the World Bank, United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, US and other governments. He regularly speaks at universities, economic forums, and shamanic gatherings around the world and is a founder and board member of the Pachamama Alliance and Dream Change, nonprofit organizations that partner with indigenous people to protect environments and that offer global programs to change the destructive ways of industrial societies. John advises corporations, executives, and entrepreneurs on ways to make the transition from a Death Economy (exploiting resources that are declining at acceler
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The Evolution of Consciousness with John Perkins
Today, on the occasion of the Meltingpot Forumwhere both of us were invited to speak, I met with John Perkins. He is a famous bestselling author in the US, and the least I can säga is that he’s a colorful character.
Referring to himself as an “economic hit man”, John Perkins spent the 70s and part of the 80s as an adviser for a strategic-consulting firm. His job, he says, consisted in giving biased advice to leaders of developing countries so that they would get into huge debt and make questionable infrastructure investments. Such manipulations would only benefit a few global companies and wealthy families. Moreover, beyond his own façade of neutrality, Perkins claims he worked in synergy with other influence agents: self-selling politicians would have received bribes, free escort services and other gifts whereas those trying to refuse the American offer would have been targeted by the CIA.
Since then, Perkins repented of his