10 Things You Can Do To Save the Earth
April 22, 2010 by Johnperkins
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As part of my participation in the national Earth Day action network I wanted to post this blog in full. I hope it inspires you take action too!
The hour is ours. It is now time for each and every one of us to step up to the task at hand, to ask the important questions, [...]
US economic model a failure?
February 12, 2010 by Johnperkins
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I hope you’ll click on the link below to the PDF file my editorial published this week in the Latin American newspaper CORREO DEL ORINOCO.
We’ve converted it to English for you and it is in PDF format so that you can download it, print it out, and share it with your friends as well via email.
The [...]
Avatar in the Amazon
February 2, 2010 by Johnperkins
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“Avatar” hit home for many of us, but perhaps nowhere was it more poignant than among indigenous people in the Amazon
John Perkins.
Avatar in the Amazon
Credit: The World by Melaina Spitzer
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If there were ever a place that came close to the magical world of Pandora in James Cameron’s new film Avatar, it would probably be the [...]
Target for Economic Hit Men?
January 9, 2010 by Johnperkins
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Was Iceland a Target for Economic Hit Men?
I confessed the sins of predatory politicians and analyzed the reasons for the current meltdown in my book Hoodwinked. I am a openly admit being a reformed economist. If we return to our “normal” blueprints for the global economy, it would prove disastrous! The steps to transform “the [...]
On Morning Meeting Show
October 14, 2009 by admin
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Hi all
Take a look at my MSNBC interview. At the time we all thought it very rushed. It was, but does a pretty good job of hitting main points of HOODWINKED. MSNBC did a great job of inserting bullets RE those main points. Right after seeing that interview live, the Huffington Post editor called [...]
My Trip to China
August 20, 2009 by admin
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China: A Lesson in Transformation
Several times during my EHM tenure in the 1970s I stood on a hill in the New Territories outside Hong Kong and peered into China, a mysterious country I was not allowed to enter. China was locked behind a wall of secrecy. About all most of us knew was that the [...]
“Piracy”
August 20, 2009 by admin
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“PIRACY”
Dear Friends,
We’ve been hearing a lot about terrorists and pirates for many years now; but reports about why they do what they do are just starting to filter through.
A pirate who goes by the name Abshir Abdullahi Abdi explained his reasons on NPR’s Morning Edition, on May 6, 2006. “We understand what we’re doing is [...]
