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Hey I love John Perkins as much as anybody, but conspiracy theories about how the CIA and World Bank is teamed up with multinational corporations to go around t

• falsestprophet 19y ago
  The World Bank (as well as the IMF), and the CIA (and British and French intelligence) have a long, public history of nonsense like this. I think it is more of a conspiracy than a conspiracy theory.
  • cellis 19y ago
    But strictly economically speaking, it (the "corporatocracy") actually isn't nonsense. Perhaps it is politically and morally wrong;nonetheless it remains extremely profitable. Further, Perkins doesn't offer a viable alternative for the world, besides urging people to consume less, which isn't going to happen just because some fancy economists want it to.
• h34t 19y ago
  I don't have personal knowledge of most of what he talks about in his book, but in the case of Guatemala he's spot-on. The CIA removed their first democratically elected leader, Arbenz, in 1954 and the country has never really recovered. I don't think Perkins is far off. I've worked in Guatemala and China extensively, and in government in Canada, and none of what he's written here sounds far-fetched to me.
  • h34t 19y ago
    This is 107 days old, but I can't help but mention how ridiculous it was for me to have said that I worked in Guatemala and China "extensively." I don't know what got in to my tea...