ThomasK wrote:alternativecatII wrote:
Mark Maxon read a bit of this book on the air today, and it was pretty interesting. The Paragraphs Mark read pertained to John Perkins spending time in Indonesia to setup sweatshops.
John also covers the rise to power of Hugo Chavez in his book.
The author John Perkins will be on the show tomorrow. It appears Perkins spent the 1970s working as an economic planner for an international consulting firm.
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216085881&sr=1-1
If anyone would like to hear John on the show tomorrow it's AM 630 or online at http://k-talk.com
The review from Publishers Weekly from the Amazon.com website you posted is interesting:
His claim to have assisted the House of Saud in strengthening its ties to American power brokers may be timely enough to attract some attention, but the yarn he spins is ultimately unconvincing, except perhaps to conspiracy buffs.
I'm sure Keeper will get off on this.If you listened to the show (which I did), Mr. Perkins says he has passports to prove he was everywhere he said he was in the book, and his publisher verified that. Mr. Perkins does make some petty damning accusations. What would you expect the business community to say? "Yes we're screwing people over. We're sorry about that and we're going to make it all better." I believe it's easier to claim Mr. Perkins is a conspiracy theorist.
It's just like the Security Prosperity Partnership. People claimed it was a conspiracy theory, over and over. Then you see Marcy Kaptur on the floor of Congress telling people about it
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TShPYA-OuPsNow the doubters are saying, "Well yeah, but it's not really a bad thing. We're in a Global Economy"
What I'm really getting at is you should hear what John Perkins has to say. Then decide for your self if his stories of screwing people over are fiction or real. We know there are sweat shops in other countries. This book is about how this man is responsible for some of them.
