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A Short Quiz for You
By John Perkins How well do you know your history? Can you identify the quotations below? Who said them? In what year? Are the countries correct – or should they be reordered? Masked men...
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A Warning from the Ancients
News reports and personal conversations these days often focus on fast-exploding events in Washington, the Middle East, and Ukraine. We are hammered by one crisis after another: political...
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Be the Dictator
In Ten Easy Steps By John Perkins I decided to spend part of my 4th of July weekend in Fantasy Park . I’d heard about the new Be the Dictator ride and couldn’t resist. Although the line w...
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Bitcoin, Shamanism, and The Bubble
Backstage in the cavernous Las Vegas auditorium, I thought about the thousands of fired-up Bitcoiners who were waiting for my talk. They had recently heard Eric and Donald Trump Jr. and J...
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My First Novel is Finally Here!
I suspect that you, like me, often feel overloaded by all the information and divisive issues bombarding us every day. While it is important to understand what’s going on in the world, I...
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The World’s Biggest Banana Republic
By John Perkins I encourage you to share this important and timely message from people around the world. “The world’s biggest banana republic” is a phrase I hear from people in Latin Amer...
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China Loves Trump
A Conversation with Dr. Xi As many of you know, I usually write a newsletter only once a month. This is an exception. My last one, distributed on January 20 and titled “ AI, Musk, and Oli...
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AI, Musk, and Oligarchy
A conversation with Thomas Paine These are the times that try men’s souls. . . -Thomas Paine, The American Crisis , 1776 Thus began an essay that inspired American farmers and fishermen t...
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Post-Election Advice from a Troll
A few days after the elections, I visited Pia the Troll. It had been about a year since the first time I’d met her. Our community is accustomed to stories about coyotes and even the occa...
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An Exciting Announcement... and a Message from Pleiades
I’m about to publish my first novel, Message from Pleiades . And I’ve loved writing it! The story revolves around Jenny (“J.P.”) Moody, the youngest member of the US Senate. She travels...
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Corporate Hit Men Colonize America
John Perkins In the first of my Confessions of an Economic Hit Man trilogy, I wrote about how people like me helped the US government and corporations colonize countries that had resource...
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Taking on the Evil Moloch: A Short Video
Here’s a July 4th celebratory gift that is a departure from my usual newsletters: It’s a 4 1/2-minute video introduction to a feature-length film and video game that complement each other...
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