John Perkins

Alex Jones interviews John Perkins, economist and author of 'Confessions of a Economic Hitman' and 'The Secret History of the American Empire'. What is an economic hitman, you ask? My official title was chief economist at a major consulting firm in Boston, MA; this is back in the '70's.  I was really an economic hitman.  I arranged huge loans for countries that had resources corporations coveted to places like the World Bank and the private banking industry.  Money never actually went to those countries because it went instead to our own corporations to build big infrastructure projects in those countries…