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Stop being so greedy, and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thir...

John Perkins

Stop being so greedy, and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thir...

Tags: progression

إن الدهاء الذي تتسم به هذه الإمبراطورية الحديثة يتجاوز كل ما صنعه فرسان الرومان والغزاة الأسبان وقوى الإستعمار الأوروبي في القرنين الثامن عشر والتاسع عشر. فنحن قراصنة الإقتصاد على درجة عالية من الإحتر...

John Perkins

إن الدهاء الذي تتسم به هذه الإمبراطورية الحديثة يتجاوز كل ما صنعه فرسان الرومان والغزاة الأسبان وقوى الإستعمار الأوروبي في القرنين الثامن عشر والتاسع عشر. فنحن قراصنة الإقتصاد على درجة عالية من الإحتر...

About Author
John Perkins may refer to:

John Perkins (Australian politician) (1878–1954), Australian politician
John Perkins (author) (born 1945), American author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins (rugby union) (born 1954), Wales international rugby union player
John Perkins Jr. (1819–1885), American politician, son of John Perkins Sr.
John Perkins Sr. (1781–1866), American judge and planter
John Perkins (physician) (1698–1781), American physician and essayist
John M. Perkins (born 1930), American civil rights activist, American Christian minister, author
Johnny Perkins (1953–2007), American football receiver with the New York Giants
John Perkins (Royal Navy officer) (fl. 1775–1812), Captain, Napoleonic War
John Alanson Perkins (1914–1982), American academic administrator and government official
John Frederick Perkins (1910–1983), English entomologist
John Perkins (academic) (born 1950), British academic, engineering scientist and government adviser
John Astin Perkins (1907–1999), interior designer and architect
John Perkins (cricketer) (1837–1901), English cricketer

Kendi otomobilini üretemeyen ülkeye borç verip otobanlar yaptırırız. Sonra onlara arabalarımızı satarız. Sonra bankalarını satın alırız. O bankalardan halka ucuz krediler verip daha çok araba almaları...

John Perkins

Kendi otomobilini üretemeyen ülkeye borç verip otobanlar yaptırırız. Sonra onlara arabalarımızı satarız. Sonra bankalarını satın alırız. O bankalardan halka ucuz krediler verip daha çok araba almaları...

The first question we must address deals with optimism, the possibility of achieving our goal. Are we in a position where we can actually hope to effect change? Assuming we become convinced that there...

John Perkins

The first question we must address deals with optimism, the possibility of achieving our goal. Are we in a position where we can actually hope to effect change? Assuming we become convinced that there...

Tags: optimism, suffering

If an EHM is completely successful, the loans are so large that the debtor is forced to default on its payments after a few years. When this happens, then like the Mafia we demand our pound of flesh....

John Perkins

If an EHM is completely successful, the loans are so large that the debtor is forced to default on its payments after a few years. When this happens, then like the Mafia we demand our pound of flesh....

لم تُخترع بعد الآلة التي تستطيع قتل الأهداف النبيلة

John Perkins

لم تُخترع بعد الآلة التي تستطيع قتل الأهداف النبيلة

اسأ نفسك هذه الاسئلة ما الذى تحتاج الاعتراف به ؟ كيف خدعت نفسك والاخرين ؟ وما المواقف التى استسلمت فيها واذعنت ؟ لماذا تركت نفسك يستنزفها نظام تعرف انه ظالم ؟ ماذا ستفعل لتتأكد ان اطفالك وكل الاطفال ي...

John Perkins

اسأ نفسك هذه الاسئلة ما الذى تحتاج الاعتراف به ؟ كيف خدعت نفسك والاخرين ؟ وما المواقف التى استسلمت فيها واذعنت ؟ لماذا تركت نفسك يستنزفها نظام تعرف انه ظالم ؟ ماذا ستفعل لتتأكد ان اطفالك وكل الاطفال ي...

It isn’t about changing the mechanics of economics. It is about changing the ideas, the dogmas that have driven economics for centuries: debt and fear, insufficiency, divide and conquer.

John Perkins

It isn’t about changing the mechanics of economics. It is about changing the ideas, the dogmas that have driven economics for centuries: debt and fear, insufficiency, divide and conquer.

In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, That's why I'm meeting with you. Only you in the United States can change it. Your government created this problem and your p...

John Perkins

In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, That's why I'm meeting with you. Only you in the United States can change it. Your government created this problem and your p...

Tags: corporations, empire, government, politics

In my opinion, the difference between the crusaders and us was a matter of degree. Europe's medieval Catholics claimed their goal was to save Muslims from purgatory; we claimed that we wanted to help...

John Perkins

In my opinion, the difference between the crusaders and us was a matter of degree. Europe's medieval Catholics claimed their goal was to save Muslims from purgatory; we claimed that we wanted to help...

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

John Perkins

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

من خلال ما مر من احداث وما خبرته من عملى مع شركة مين وجدت نفسى اسال الاسئلة نفسها مجددا : كم من القرارات -بما فيها القرارات التاريخية التى اثرت على ملايين البشر - اتخذها رجال او نساء دفعتهم مصالحهم ال...

John Perkins

من خلال ما مر من احداث وما خبرته من عملى مع شركة مين وجدت نفسى اسال الاسئلة نفسها مجددا : كم من القرارات -بما فيها القرارات التاريخية التى اثرت على ملايين البشر - اتخذها رجال او نساء دفعتهم مصالحهم ال...

For me, the lessons were irrefutable. Iran illustrated beyond any doubt that the United States was a nation laboring to deny the truth of its role in the world. It seemed incomprehensible that we coul...

John Perkins

For me, the lessons were irrefutable. Iran illustrated beyond any doubt that the United States was a nation laboring to deny the truth of its role in the world. It seemed incomprehensible that we coul...

Joined by retired Democratic senator George Mitchell and former Senate aide Charlie Scheeler, DLA Piper sought to protect the avaricious interests of its clients, including one of the retailers identi...

John Perkins

Joined by retired Democratic senator George Mitchell and former Senate aide Charlie Scheeler, DLA Piper sought to protect the avaricious interests of its clients, including one of the retailers identi...

When men and women are rewarded for greed, greed becomes a corrupting motivator. When we equate the gluttonous consumption of the earth's resources with a status approaching sainthood, when we teach o...

John Perkins

When men and women are rewarded for greed, greed becomes a corrupting motivator. When we equate the gluttonous consumption of the earth's resources with a status approaching sainthood, when we teach o...

1 and 2. The United States represents less than 5 percent of the world’s population; it consumes more than 25 percent of the world’s resources. This is accomplished to a large degree through the explo...

John Perkins

1 and 2. The United States represents less than 5 percent of the world’s population; it consumes more than 25 percent of the world’s resources. This is accomplished to a large degree through the explo...

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations serv...

John Perkins

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations serv...

Tags: poverty

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corpora...

John Perkins

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corpora...

Tags: work, change, book

Who can see twenty-five years into the future? she had asked. Your guess is as good as theirs. Confidence is everything.

John Perkins

Who can see twenty-five years into the future? she had asked. Your guess is as good as theirs. Confidence is everything.

فالكوبوقراطية هى نحن ونحن صنعناها انها نتيجة عجز كل واحد منا عن الوقوف والاعتراض وعلينا فى ذات الوقت الانتباه لاولئك المتآمرين المختبئين فى الظلال فاغلبنا يعمل فى هذه البنوك او الشركات او الحكومات او...

John Perkins

فالكوبوقراطية هى نحن ونحن صنعناها انها نتيجة عجز كل واحد منا عن الوقوف والاعتراض وعلينا فى ذات الوقت الانتباه لاولئك المتآمرين المختبئين فى الظلال فاغلبنا يعمل فى هذه البنوك او الشركات او الحكومات او...